ParalympicsGB’s Abdi Jama on his wheelchair basketball career
A British Paralympian who plays wheelchair basketball has said he wants to inspire other young people to take up sports.
Abdi Jama, who is from the self-declared republic of Somaliland, fell out of a window at the age of 14 and was left paralysed from the waist down.
He won bronze at the Rio Paralympics in 2016 – his second Paralympic medal after also winning bronze in Beijing in 2008.
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