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The Paralympic Queen of the Slopes
Istorima
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The Paralympic Queen of the Slopes

The paralympic skiing champion Vivi Christodoulopoulou describes her childhood in an institution for disabled children, and how she managed to become an athlete, ultimately competing in the Paralympic Games.

Interviewee: Vivi Christodoulopoulou

Field Reporter: Marilena Koukouli

Producer: Daphne Matziaraki

Sound Designer: Dimitris Palaiogiannis

Sound Editor: Dimitris Papadakis

Video Director: Mike Bekos


Istorima is the largest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.