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Nearly 3,000 athletes from over
50 countries will compete here.

I feel like we have to do another...

One, two, three, four, five...

I really thought that we could do
this and we could do this so well

for ourselves, let alone
everybody else

that's cheering us on
and everything else like that, OK?

We've all 100% got this.

And I really believe in us
as a team and as individuals.

World is big.

It is literally the biggest
competition out there for cheer.

The moment to go out to compete,

oh, my God.

It feels like you don't want
to go on, your tummy's turning

like you're going to be sick.

You've got the crowd,
you've got everyone screaming.

And it's just,
it's almost like you get,

like, superhuman strength.

All of this hard work and all
of these years of training

comes down to 2 minutes
and 15 seconds on the mat.

In training sessions,
people are saying,

"We're going to try
and go for gold this year."

And I was like, "yeah, OK"

thinking that we didn't really
have that much of a chance.

And then we got to Florida
and I remember thinking,

"Oh, we really do have
a chance of getting gold."

The anticipation is killing you.

The anticipation is killing you,
because you know

within the next couple of seconds,
the music will come on.

Once the music is on, 2 minutes
and 15 seconds rolls, boom!

So...

The plan for today is as such.

First thing we're going to do
is work the Antonio piece,

the routine.

We're going to work that for
a while, probably a good hour.

After that's been worked, yes,

then we're going to work
on the chant.

So that's where I'm trying
to focus our energy today.

Does everybody understand
what's going on?

OK, here we go.

Ready?
And she's up.

She's up, she's mounted.
One, two...

Adaptive Abilities
is a team of disabled

and non-disabled athletes,
all competing together as one team.

These athletes have trained
for years in order to be able

to try out to get onto this team.

So these are the athletes
that we're taking to the top

in the world.

Let's go from the beginning and put
the whole thing and the tumbling

into it and set, five, six,
seven, clean eight.

One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four.

We have some visible and non-visible
disabilities on the team,

but we don't really focus on
who's disabled and who's not.

I think that's quite good, cos
it means you're not thinking,

"Oh, I'll go easy on them
because they're disabled"

because we don't know.

Five, six, seven, eight.

One!

Just come off nice and straight
and tidy.

I am primarily a base.

It's the tumblers
that do the tumbling.

I'm not going to be tumbling.

I don't want my head
under my wheelchair.

So you want us to go down on the...

Yeah.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Yeah.

My role is almost being
a big support mechanism.

I'm everybody's hype woman.

I like everyone to know
that they're the best.

I'm the gobby one of the team.

That's what I am.

Right, remember what we said?
It's only four counts.

I'm the only boy on the team
Wales Adaptive.

Peoples taking the mick out of me,
like just for going around

with pompoms, dancing.

What I do is, I show them a video
on my phone of actually what I do.

And then they stutter
their words like,

"Oh, oh, OK,
so you don't do pompoms?

No.

OK, let's go again.

For us, there is all year
practising all with this one aim.

Of going to the World Championships.

Worlds is going to be
an amazing opportunity

to go out there and compete.

We can really achieve something
for our country here.

If we win, oh, my God,

it will be insane.

Ready, set, two, three, four,
five, to the top.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three.

Yes.

Do we feel ready to do this?

We're going for it.

Amazing, here we go.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

As a base, you do have a lot
of responsibility.

Our priority is to fly a safety.

One down, three, let her off, five.

You have to be completely
in sync with your other base.

It was because it was here and
then it was down and it's like...

Yeah, yeah.

Stunting with the wheelchair
is difficult, because you've got

to be underneath the flyer
and so has your seated base.

Antonia is so good at telling me
where to stand, where to put my

hands, where to put my legs
and everything else.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven
and swing down.

Yes!

I think it's a really good
partnership.

I've really, really enjoyed
basing with her.

OK, that was definitely
a better run.

Fingers crossed
the judges thinks it looks good.

Cake!

Brad, Brad had this made.

Everybody thank Brad for the cake!

Thank you, Brad!

Brad is brilliant.
He makes me laugh.

He's a good friend
to everyone on the team.

Everyone gets along with him.

He's a great mate.

Just can't wait for you to get
your pompoms out.

Can't wait for him to start
using them.

See what he's like.

Hey, leave off.

We're jealous,
Yeah.

I'm good with pompoms,
Yeah.

You just fell off
a ladder the other day.

Currently work with my dad.

Basically, like carpentry,
plumbing, electrics.

A stepladder.

Like, four times, like,
close to the floor.

I stepped off and I was on my bum!

I love working with my dad.

We can get on each other's nerves
though. He knows more than me.

So that's all I'm saying.

And I think I know more than him.

I've got to tell you something.

I have got autism and ADHD.

My ADHD is another level.

Made me play up in school

because I couldn't control it
back then.

But now I've got a lot older,

I can control it.

Bit more water, Dad, do you reckon?
Yeah, a bit more water.

My autism affects
my day-to-day life

by meeting new people.

You go into really shy mode
with autism and hard

to be around people, but being in
a team like Team Wales Adaptive

has helped me.

Like, before I joined that team,
I was like,

"Oh, do I want
to be around people that much? No."

But I joined them.

Honestly, being around the people
that I've been around

in Team Wales helped me.

It's insane. Like, I've always
been around them people.

So I want to get straight stuck in.

Everybody show those counts to me
like you know them.

Everybody show me six.

Show...
Move, move, move.

Show me, move.
Show me seven.

I have a schedule in my head
to make sure that we get done

what we need to get done
at each training session,

but with an adaptive abilities team,

of course, you never know
what's going to happen

in the course of training.

So everybody go to the beginning
of the routine, please.

Antonia, you do want to come
up to the front and watch?

The plan is now to move Carys
a little bit more central

in the routine.

So basically I'm exempt from jabs
and so is my mum, because we've got

a problem with our mast cells
and that basically means that,

you know, we could get there and
say, "Oh, I've got an exemption"

but you know, you know,
we don't want to risk it.

So I thought, you know,
I'm just going to have to say like,

"Look, this year I can't do it."

So you guys will move back to
where you were before and you guys

will move back to where
you were before.

So we've obviously had the
really bad news that Antonia's

not going to be able to come
to the United States.

So what we've done behind the scenes
is we've rearranged the routine.

We had 22 on the team,
now we have 21 on the team.

We have some adjustments to make.

So today is the adjustment day.

I don't want you to stress,
cos I realise I asked you to do

one thing and now I'm asking you to
do something completely different.

And I apologise, but I didn't, you
know, it's just the way it goes.

OK? OK.

All right, team, let's come across,
please, we're going next door.

By the way, it's cold in there,
bring a sweatshirt.

Obviously Antonia's
not very well right now.

This is something that she goes
through on a regular basis.

It was upsetting for the team,
cos obviously we don't want

to see a team-mate going
through something like that.

It's something you think you want
to kind of be there for her,

but then you also have
to focus on the training.

So we had to move rooms to make sure
she was safe and that we,

whilst we were training,
we were away from her.

So what was pre-discussed
was that we would carry on,

because she doesn't,
she doesn't want us to stop

on her behalf.

This was, as I said,
a pre-discussed conversation.

The team know that and the team know
that we need to push forward.

This is literally the reason why
this team is here, is to allow

people like Antonia to be able
to do what they love.

And Antonia has a huge love for it.

So we're quite happy to take a step
back and take a bit of time out

so long as she's OK.

What else do you need?

My other meds.

Are you leaving your fluids on
or are you disconnecting?

OK.

I've got quite a few conditions.

I often have seizures
after the anaphylaxis,

and that can be really dangerous.

This is something I could not
live without, setting spray.

Team Wales,

they were so supportive
and really helped a lot

and it wasn't...

I had that happen a few times
and every single time,

they were amazing.

I'm so proud of myself for walking.

Everyone told me that I wouldn't be
able to do it and I've smashed that.

I decided that it would be wrong
for me to go to Worlds.

I didn't want my team to have to get
to Florida and say, "I can't do it"

and then them have to
re-block the whole routine.

I don't think that would
have been fair because of the level

of respect they'd shown me,

I think they deserved
that kind of level back.

Straight to the gym.

It's like skiing.

I love it.

It would be probably quite a lot
easier for me and everybody

if I didn't do cheerleading.

But I do cheerleading because it
makes me feel energised

and happy and calm at the same time.

But, yeah, I love cheerleading.

# I feel it moving

# All the others, gather round... #

Go again!

In a chair routine,
you've got your stunts

which happen
within your stunt groups.

You've got your tumble elements
in the routine.

And then you've got your dance and
jump elements within the routine.

Stop for a second.

When I'm asking you to go,
boom, boom, boom, hit, clean,

then that's what that has to be.

And it can't be soft, clean,

because that's not going to pop.

That has to pop.

It's a lot to process at the moment,
but I think we're ready.

I think we're ready.

And, Carys, do you need a rest?

You're resting. You're resting.

OK.

This is my prosthetic.

It's number five or six.

I've got quite a few.

We call it Stump,
and my nickname is Stumpy.

Carys and Rhiannon, seeing them
two sisters in the same routine,

they're idols, man.

We're quite competitive
against each other.

We'll always look at each other
and say, "We've got this."

She is the sassy queen,

as I say.

# Take my hand,
let me show you round... #

Rhiannon, she's a cheerleader.

She lives her life like
a cheerleader, you know?

Like her face,

the way she goes about things
is she is a cheerleader.

Rhianna's facials are so insane,
they're amazing.

They make you want to have
facials like that.

We started with ballroom first, cos
because it ran in the family

and Mum used to do it, my auntie
used to do it as well.

I'd say we must have been
about three or four, is when

cheerleading came in.

I think the first time I was put
in a stunt, I was still in nappies.

No, Carys, I feel like
you need to be there,

but you need to practise that half.

Here we go, ready?

When I was born,
I was born with club feet.

So my feet, instead of
being straight and flat,

they were up and inwards.

When I was seven was when
we, like, all sat down, really,

and talked about amputation,
because I had seen it

in a magazine and I was like,
"Well, that's something I want."

And so when I had the consultation
with the doctor,

that was the first thing
I said to him was,

"Please take my leg off."

It's never been something
No.

And it's benefited her.

But she's always on a laugh
and a joke with it.

And we can't take her serious,
because she's nicknamed Stumpy.

And, you know, when we get people
going, "You can't call her that,

"you can't do that
or you can't say that."

And it's just like,
"Yeah, we can, yeah."

It's part and parcel
of who we are.

And it's back on!

Listen, we are doing a stunt run.

I am a side base.

I base with Brad and Isabelle, and
then I have my front base, Ellie.

And we all really work together to
lift Mia up, who's our flier.

Five, six, seven, eight.

When your stunt hits,

so when everything goes perfectly,
it's a really good feeling,

because you know
you can do something

that loads of other people can't.

So now, that was much, much better.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

High five!

Everybody, please get a drink.

Come back and we'll get a chant.

I've brought the best bottle ever.

Where are you going,
to run a marathon?

Libby's amazing.

She's one of my best friends
from cheer.

She's like a sister to me.

I feel safe with Libby there.

She's strong.

Take it easy.

In school, I'm doing my GCSEs
at the minute.

Because we train for so long
and we train a lot,

it is hard to find those moments
to revise in between it.

Worlds is now.

And my exams are, like,
a month after that.

So I probably prioritised training
and Worlds before school.

Hand that to me.

Oh, you've got it.
Got it.

That's me.

I've been cheering for about
coming up to nine years now.

I've always been really,
really close with my mum

and my grandmother.

This is my mum and me.

And then down here
is my nan and grandad.

So in 2019, my mum was diagnosed
with breast cancer.

As we were going into a lockdown,
she got the all clear from cancer

and a few days after,
she contracted Covid.

When she got Covid,
she ended up going to hospital,

and after a month of being
in hospital and having the doctors

give her the best care possible,

she sadly passed away
just over a year ago now.

Not long after my mum passed away,

my nan also passed away.

I think it was two days
was the difference.

It was a really short space
to take everything in,

and it was difficult.

I don't remember
those couple of months.

It was all such a blur.

When I go to cheer,
it's like they weren't upset,

they were more there looking for me,
looking to see if I was OK.

And it was nice to have somebody
being upset with you, but it's also

nice to have somebody just
to laugh with you all the time.

Here we go, ready?

One more time, please,
we've nearly got this.

Everyone needs something
to help them focus again,

help them get out of those
bad places.

And I find cheer is mine.

It makes me feel so much better
in every sense.

Today we're going to work
through the routine.

First for all the counts,
then for all the stunts.

OK, here we go.

From the beginning of pyramid,
seven, eight,

one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Ready, and...

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

When you're doing a pyramid,
everybody has to work together.

One little slip could send
everything a bit askew.

So there's a tremendous amount
of teamwork that has to go on

and support for each other.

Panic, a lot of panic.

Yes, what happens is,
as soon as somebody goes wrong,

then that affects the whole team.

And we need to just keep
that positivity that everything's

going to be OK,
we need to stay calm.

That comes with experience,
we just need to keep running on.

So we have to be committed to making
everything happen at every time.

And the way I felt was in the
pyramid, if we hadn't screamed,

"Pick it up, make it happen",

that people would have then gotten
disheartened because there was one

little piece of the pyramid
that didn't happen.

If one thing goes wrong on the
floor, what you have to do is

make sure that that does not
then infect anything else

and it does not matter.
It's wiped away.

We carry on and we push harder.

Let's go again.

One, two, three, go.

Drilling is everything.

If we don't hit it enough times
correctly, then there is the chance

that it will be hit incorrectly.

And especially when you're
in a pressure cooker,

especially when you're standing
there, representing your country.

Go again. One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven...

That's a lot on your shoulders.

So you have to have it drilled.

If you haven't got it drilled,
then you won't know what to do.

We are dipping on three.

Let's go again.

That was much better.

You push constantly through
the training session.

You have to listen to corrections
from your coach.

You have to constantly make
those changes to make

the routine perfect.

And it's about giving
110% effort, really,

because 100% won't really cut it.

High five, well done.

You gave what you needed to give.
You gave what you needed to give.

You gave what you needed to give.

It's absolutely amazing to see
these athletes who have had serious

struggles, but they're getting
on that floor and no matter

what happens,
they are pushing through.

And that's amazing.

It's a lesson for me.

It's a lesson for everyone that
whatever life throws at you,

you keep going.

I didn't always
want to be a builder.

At 16, I had thoughts
about going in the army.

It's just something
I've always wanted to do.

Like, my uncle did it.

Quite a few of my cousins did it.

My mate did it.

Sadly, he passed away.

He got shot in Afghan,

which was painful, I guess.

How you getting on, Brad?
Not bad, not bad.

Just trying to level this out.

That's when I went into the down
fall of my depression kind of area.

I went down.

The depression was, it felt like
you just didn't want to be here,

like you didn't want to be on the
world, like no-one was with you.

You don't have no friends, like,
you're just crying all the time.

And it came to a point
where I just had enough.

Yeah, tried taking my life.

I was literally probably
about that close to doing it.

And then that's when I took a time,
took a seat, breathing,

heavy breathing, and that's when
I went downstairs and told my mum.

If I didn't have the support I did
with cheerleading, who knows

where I would have been now?

I literally can't thank everyone
for my support

that they've given me.

Like, you have bad feelings
outside the cheer, but once you hit

that cheer gym and you go in that
cheer gym, your feelings go.

It's just like a whole different
place where you don't have to worry

about your feelings.

You go in that gym,
you're just happy.

It's your happy place.

I get it.

Other people think about
boxing and hockey.

Do what you've got to do that
makes you happy, really.

You only live once,
like, you really do.

Yay!

We love a dead floor,
it's our favourite thing.

You OK?

Take a breather.

Just chill.

At the World Championships,
we are on a hard floor,

which means that the floor is not
sprung underneath our mats.

Every gym that we practise at
has full sprung floor,

so the athletes need to get used
to a hard floor,

especially for their tumbles.

Things land a lot differently
on a hard floor.

Weird.

It is a lot different.
Doesn't feel good on the ankles.

One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight.

That group is still going, right,
so we can't give up.

If you have a mistake in the
routine, you will still carry on.

We are not at any time
going to give up.

OK, guys?

We're just having one
problem with one stunt,

which is the full around.

Going to go one more time.

Mia, she's a really good flier,

but I think we're lifting her
too high.

Me and Libby ain't getting
in closer to each other.

But we'll do it.

We'll do it.

Yes!

Good job, guys.

100%, we're ready for Florida, 100%.

Yeah, 100%.

This team is an amazing team.

And we're going to Florida,
what can we say? Let's do it.

Actually seeing the uniform
makes me more excited

that it's actually happening.

You just work so hard for it
and you want to prove to so many

people you can do it.

I am unbelievably excited
for Worlds.

It's like a big family holiday.

I love the vibe in here.
Yeah.

Elvis.

It's an American burger!

That looks good.

When we were out in Florida,
we were just completely overwhelmed.

As soon as we got there, we were
like, "Oh, my God, we're here."

Yeah.

Here we go!

So, we are just going to Top Gun
to do our training.

Come on, guys.
We're good to go, let's go.

Like, such a bigger gym
to, like, what we're used to.

Yeah, it's massive.
But, yeah, it's really cool.

They are very well known
in the cheerleader world,

so it's a pretty big privilege
to be here training right now.

Ready? Guys, focus!

Let's go, let's go.

And, five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four.

We knew that that was the only time
we had to get things done.

And when you know you only
have a certain amount of time

to get things done,

things do become stressful.

We now go to the 360
in the double down.

Come on, Mia, we got it.

A double down is when your bases
throw you from a prep level

up in the air and then you spin
twice in a circle really fast.

And then you land on your back.

One, two, three...

One, two, three, four, five...

Double downs are, like,
one of my biggest fears.

I'm, like, I know I can do them,
but when I can't do it once,

I won't do it for a long time again.

Lost that leg.

You're just stressing yourself out.

Stay calm.

You got it.

Here we go.

All right, let's do it.

It stresses me out a lot.

And then it put off the other
aspects of the stunt section.

Because of me
worrying about the double down.

Ready? And, five, six,
seven, eight...

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

OK. Hey, Mia.
Yes?

We're going up on
a locked straight leg.

We're squeezing our core.
We're squeezing everything together.

Let's go. Ready? Here we go.

I'm going to be honest,
it went quite bad.

It didn't go as we wanted it to go.

I think we were all just
hot and bothered, nervous.

Everyone just shouting at each other
if something goes wrong.

It was the most stressful
training session I've been to.

Everything is going to go just fine.

If we panic, it goes to pot.

If we don't panic,
this will be fine.

OK, let's go again.

You have to impress the importance
of the situation on the athletes.

But you can't go too hard
on top of the athletes.

If you go too hard on top
of the athletes, what happens is

you stress them out.

Then you have athletes in a mental
game, thinking that they're not

in the place they need to be.

And you want the athletes
to be in the place

they need to be mentally
before they compete.

One, two, three, four...

There's some things I have to take
care of, but I'll take care of them.

So...

But I...

We just have to keep a positive
attitude on the team.

The thought of just that big crowd,
like, audience of loads of people

just frightens me.

How do you feel about the stunt
with Mia?

A bit nervous.

Don't want anything to go wrong.

Yeah, look, we'll,
we'll get the stunt.

We'll get it today.

Team USA,

they normally do really well
in all the categories they're in.

They're in most categories
and they normally win all of them.

Wales is, like, 3 million people

and the United States
is, like, knocking on 400 million.

So we're talking about,
like, two completely different

situations here.

Worlds is absolutely
everything to me.

I just cannot wait to get
in that arena and say,

"I've done it, I've made it."

I can't even describe
how it would feel to win.

Just to know that little Wales
could do it

would be phenomenal.

Walking out with our Team Wales
kit on, representing your country

is going to be overwhelming.

You don't know.

You could have a bad day on the day
you compete or something and...

it just sends your nerves
through the roof.

Yeah, it's going to be a bit
nerve-racking, but I feel

like we could do it.

It's our time to shine now.

You're on the stage,
do what you've got to do.

Down a bit.

It's a really kind
of bittersweet day,

not being with them.

But I'm going to love watching them,
because they've worked so hard

and I'm just rooting for them loads.

I just, I just want them
to do really well.

Oh, they're announcing it.

Welcome to the 2022
World Cheerleading Championships.

Nearly 3,000 athletes from over
50 countries will compete here.

One, two, three, four, five...

Go Wales!

We've 100% got this.

And I really believe in us
as a team, and as individuals.

We are so strong.

Yes, we've got it.

So nerve-racking backstage.

Your heart is pounding,
almost coming out of your chest.

Take a big breath in and expel
everything negative out.

And let's just enjoy
every single second!

It is surreal.

This isn't...
This isn't real at all.

This is so exciting.

We are finally getting
to show the whole world our routine.

Everything that we do goes into
2 minutes, 15 seconds,

and that's it.

That's all you've got to show
the judges and the world

what you're capable of

and what you've been working towards
for months.

We got the jumps out of the way
and move to the stunt.

I was like, "Right, this will work.
This will happen. It will go well."

It was ticking in my head saying,

"I know this stunt's going to come
up. I know it's going to come,

"it's going to come,
it's going to come now."

Your adrenaline's going.
You don't think what you do.

You go for what you've been taught.

It hit perfectly.

It wasn't even like,
"Oh, we managed to hit that."

No, it was like,
"We hit it and we did good."

Every single time
they dismount correctly

is just another tick on your list.

So you are, like, ticking,
ticking, ticking, ticking.

And you know, if they can just
get the pyramid done, we are home.

Yes! Yes! It's going to be amazing.

That was so good.

They hit everything.

They hit so well.
They literally hit everything.

I'm literally...
I'm so proud of them.

I'm so proud of you.

It was so good. That was so good!
I'm so pleased for you.

I remember thinking, "You know what?
We've put out a really good routine.

"It's anybody's game."

But then we hadn't seen Team USA,

so we were none the wiser
as to what had happened.

The last results, here we go.

The anticipation is killing you.
The anticipation is killing you.

Here we go. Silver medallists
for 2022 goes to...

..USA.

They announced second place,
and as soon as they called USA,

we were all like, "Oh, my God,
is this real?"

2022 gold medallists
and world champions...

..Team Wales.

We did it. We're world champions.

To have that feeling
and to have it next to your name,

you know, "world champion,"
is like, "Oh, my God."

Gold medallists
and world champions, Wales.

To be given a gold medal,
that was like, "Oh, my,

"look what we've achieved."

We've just shown what
our little country can do.

We did it!

Everything that we've been going for
has worked,

and it's not only that the athletes
hit on the floor,

it's that they hit inclusively
on the floor,

that they were there for each other
on the floor,

that they all, like,
loved each other on the floor.

We did it! We did it!

That's a moment in life
that doesn't always happen,

but we have this moment
to cling on to.

Everything we've done,

it shows that,
even if you have got a disability,

you can still go out there
and rock that floor.

# I only knew you for a while

# I never saw your smile
till it was time to go... #