Everyone's path is difficult, it's never easy,
but I'm the proof that working hard pays off.
Unfortunately, I've lost friends to drugs and crime,
but we can trace a different path...
(YGOR COELHO, BADMINTON PLAYER)
..we don't need to follow that one.
Badminton has changed my life. Now it's my profession,
now I speak English because of badminton,
I've also travelled several places.
I live here, at the Chacrinha Community.
I live at that blue place, with the balcony.
And as unlikely as it may sound,
I started playing in my backyard, over there.
At that big blue building, the Miratus.
My feet would bleed. We didn't have badminton shoes,
and even if I had it, or something like it,
the floor would destroy it because there wasn't a court.
To get out of this situation, playing barefoot,
and be at the Olympics, you have to overcome it.
At the beginning, people didn't understand it.
They laughed when my father
wanted to build a badminton court.
Badminton is tennis played with a shuttlecock,
and this is a question everybody makes -
"Bad what?" Badminton.
When they saw that people were getting results,
the school became number one in Brazil
and one of the best in the Americas,
then they started to support us.
I was 12 years old when I could spend my vacations
with my mom for the first time.
She decided not to work as a maid any more,
she started working
at the landfill in Jardim Gramacho.
There, during my vacations, I had to climb lorries,
pick cardboard and everything, it was fun -
when you're a kid you've no idea -
to fight vultures for food,
take potato boxes that come from the supermarket,
cut the rotten part off to eat the good part.
I ate a lot of French fries.
This period of my life made me more aware.
At the Pedro II school I was introduced to this sport
practised with a shuttlecock and a racquet
and it changed my life.
We will switch!
Now we'll progress to level...
- Two. - Two!
This is way too easy!
I wanted to help a group of youngsters.
When I met my wife, she lived in this community.
And then I decided, "It has to be now."
Go down slowly until I whistle.
And we got good results.
We have over 20 Pan-American titles,
over 30 South American titles, three European titles.
Now we have male and female competitors who qualified
for the 2016 Olympic Games.
But...I'm not satisfied.
I think we always strive for more.
The good thing about Miratus
is that it thinks beyond badminton.
There are physical education teachers,
there is a girl studying accounting.
One girl who has left,
from the first generation that has a law degree.
It's a great pride.
We have to somehow compete against drug trafficking.
We have to arrive first to capacitate the kids.
Our Brazilian kids.
So my dream is that the heroes we unveiled with the sport
may become a reference
to the youth in the communities.
I've won around 80 medals.
I decided to invest in my career
because I know years from now I won't regret it.
I'll have a great future. I'm already living it.
I want to follow Ygor's example from the beginning.
He qualified for the Olympics
without leaning on Brazil's spots.
For being a host, Brazil has two spots.
And his spot was defended in court.
If the Olympics were held in Japan
he would be there.
He gave many things up.
He didn't play, he didn't fly kites.
He didn't fool around.
He worked very hard.
I'll carry the torch in Duque de Caxias.
My father and I will carry it.
I'm thrilled to even think about it.
It's wonderful.
I want it! I can do it! I will do it!
Miratus, Miratus!
I'm very excited about the Olympics.
It will only sink in when I'm there,
that I'm the first Brazilian in badminton history
to qualify for the Olympics, only then it'll sink in.
I know that my ticket is already there, safe.
(MEN'S SINGLES STANDINGS - GROUP K)
All my work, all the effort of these four years...
My father and I struggled.
He always supported me, didn't let me give up -
I'm here thanks to him.
So I want to thank him.