Paralympian Mocks Media For Using Most Awkward Photos Of Him | EUROtoday

Hello, world. Here is Paralympic sprinter Nick Mayhugh — a world document holder who gained three gold medals and a silver on the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

And regardless of one's tastes, he's fairly straightforward on the eyes. Here he’s celebrating after profitable gold within the Men's 100-meters T37 finals in Tokyo.

And right here he’s once more, trying fairly dapper at an award occasion.

Looks apart, he's additionally a reasonably fierce advocate for incapacity rights and for Paralympians getting the shine they really deserve.

Here's a pattern of some of his tweets:

So, think about Mayhugh's dismay when NBC determined to make use of a kind of above tweets on their official NBC Olympics and paired it with a really awkward picture of him.

“'What we want is to be SEEN as athletes like anyone else.' Team USA's Nick Mayhugh keeps it real on what he and his fellow Paralympians really want when they compete,” the caption on the tweet says.

Mayhugh wasted no time publicly expressing how bizarre that picture alternative was to him.

“Touché to whoever at NBC chose the most memeable pic of me, u ain't slick😂😂😂,” he wrote.

Tea US Paralympics Track & Field's official X account didn't do a lot better with the picture it used to focus on Mayhugh's T38 lengthy soar on the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Wednesday, when he reached a profession finest. The account factor this winner:

“Ain't no way that's the pic yall choose,” Mayhugh wrote in a retweet.

And Mayhugh wasn't alone in considering the picture was unhealthy. Even rapper Flavor Flav piped in to validate Mayhugh's worst fears.

“I promise I'm not that ugly @FlavorFlav 😂😂,” Mayhugh later wrote after retweeting some higher photographs of himself from the US Paralympics Track & Field's X account.

Mayhugh's path to the Paralympics is an attention-grabbing one. He was born with a gap in his mind after experiencing a stroke in his mom's womb, in keeping with a video posted on his Instagram account — nevertheless it went undiagnosed. As a child, he found a love for enjoying soccer however felt taking part in was tougher for him as a result of he all the time felt numbness on the left aspect of physique.

At 14, he had a grand mal seizure and later found he has “a dead spot on the right side of my brain” and was recognized with cerebral palsy.

He was instructed by docs that he would by no means play soccer once more, however he refused to pay attention.

In school he was recruited to play Division 1 soccer at Radford University, and in 2017, he joined the US para 7-a-side nationwide soccer workforce, a model of soccer for these with cerebral palsy.

Mayhugh says in his Instagram video that 7-a-side soccer was ultimately minimize from the Games however that, in an odd coincidence, Team USA reached out to him to run monitor and subject in 2019.

“I knew it was crazy, but I said yes,” Mayhugh mentioned. (The T37 and T38 para classes embrace athletes with cerebral palsy.)

Although he admits his monitor and subject profession bought off to a shaky begin, he went on to kill it at his debut within the sport on the Tokyo Games — wherein he gained three gold medals within the 100, 200 and 4×100-meter common relay. He additionally set world information together with his scores within the 100-meter (10.95 seconds) and 200-meter (21.91 seconds) occasions.