Overview
- Zyw, who spoke on BBC Breakfast Tuesday, is the first person with motor neurone disease to race at a Winter Paralympics, taking on snowboard cross and banked slalom.
- Diagnosed at 30 and told he had 18 months to live, he is now 38 and says he feels lucky to have outlived that forecast.
- He told hosts Sally Nugent and Jon Kay that focusing on attitude helped him cope and that he aims to use his platform to raise awareness of the disease.
- After returning as a para snowboarder, he qualified in the SB‑UL class for upper‑limb impairments, a category for riders whose arm function affects balance.
- Reports in Mirror, Bristol Live and Daily Star note a lifetime MND risk of about one in 300 and a typical two to three‑year prognosis, which frames why his Paralympic start matters.