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Heart warming proposal for Paralympic athlete and her guide on the track

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

12:15 4 Sep 2021


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This would warm your heart.

The 16th Summer Paralympic Games are taking place in Tokyo at the moment in Japan.

Since the 24th August, 4,537 athletes have been competing at the games with many ups and downs.

Our own team Ireland have been doing amazingly, with 6 medals at the time of writing.

But, this week, there was a different reason to celebrate for one Paralympic athlete.

Visually impaired T11 runner Keula Nidreia Pereira Semedo of Cape Verdean, had a very special end to her race.

Semedo narrowly missed out on semi-final qualification after finishing fourth in the women’s 200m.

But at the end of the race she was quickly given something to smile about.

Her fellow athletes began to gather around her after the race, as her guide Manuel Antonio Vaz da Veiga ran away somewhere...

Only to come back with a ring to ask her to marry him!

Watch the moment here:


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