Pulse

Oksana Boturchuk was spotted early as an athlete. A road accident when she was young left her badly injured and took most of her sight. A long recovery, then learning to walk and to run again. She comes back to the track in the category for athletes with impaired vision. The training regime, finding direction by sound, the fear of falling. At the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 she takes gold in the hundred metres and silver in the two hundred and the four hundred. Serhii Chebotarenko directs the Ukrainian film; a hundred minutes, based on the real story. Boturchuk went on winning medals at later Games. Nataliia Babenko is in the cast. The film is a reminder that Paralympic athletes have long been Ukraine's most visible sporting success.