Another gold for Tunisian shot-putter Tlili at Paralympics
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00:00Finally, as promised, back to Bulela for a quick look at the African stars shining at the Paralympics.
00:06And Bulela, one man in particular has caught your eye, some pretty impressive credentials and not just sporting ones.
00:13Tell us about him.
00:15Quite rightly, this man is, we've called him the golden engineer here.
00:19He started, you know, he was born with a club foot.
00:22He has a master's in chemical engineering.
00:24He is now doing his doctorate in conversion of plastic waste to energy.
00:28And he is also now the 100 meter T-44 Paralympic gold medal champion.
00:34I mean, Mpumele Lomthongo, an absolute megastar.
00:37And I tip you this.
00:39If you are looking ahead into the future, look out for this man to be the global face of a disabled and differently abled athletes on the track.
00:47They love him. He is so articulate.
00:49And as you can see, I mean, the man, you see the face there.
00:52He's all passion. He's all he's all energy.
00:54And he is the face of running, we presume, in the future.
00:57They love him around the world.
00:59So this is our guy and a gold medalist from South Africa.
01:03Extremely proud of this brilliant, brilliant young man.
01:06And we're pretty much at the midpoint now of the Paralympics.
01:11What else has jumped out at you over this first half of the games?
01:16You know, an absolute legend from Tunisia, Rui Tlilili.
01:21If you don't know that name, she's won the shot put five times consecutively.
01:27I mean, it's simple with this lady.
01:29Let's not go on.
01:31Let's not, you know, bloviate.
01:34She is simply iconic.
01:37Five Olympic golds in a row.
01:39That's 20 years of dominance.
01:41Usain Bolt, eat your heart out.
01:44An icon of the sport.
01:45And by the way, that's not just that's not it.
01:47That's not all she's got.
01:48She's got two discus gold medals.
01:49Tomorrow morning, she will try and make it eight gold medals at the Olympics in total.
01:54What a career.
01:55What a woman.
01:56What an icon.