Handicapped rowing champion sings Hatikva

When Moran Samuel won the gold medal at a pre-Paralympic international competition in Italy, the organizers did not have a recording of Israel's national anthem Hatikvah to play at the medals ceremony. They started playing some other anthem, and Samuel indicated that they were playing the wrong song. So she asked for a microphone - and sang it herself. The inspiring athlete, who became disabled when she was 24 because of a rare spinal stroke, summed up her reasons for doing what she did by saying that obstacles were challenges not barriers.