Dancing With the Stars' Ezra Frech on Disability and Paralympic Gold

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorParalympic champion Ezra Frech is on season thirty-five of Dancing with the Stars, and he's been talking about growing up with people staring.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSkip Waverly is outside a dance studio this morning.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I'm standing outside a rehearsal studio, and behind me you can hear the music through the door, which is the closest I've been to a promotion in years.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentFrech won two gold medals in Paris, in the hundred-meter sprint and the high jump.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentOn the Jay Shetty podcast he said, quote, I felt like a zoo animal for many of those early years.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHe also says his father started kicking people out of the delivery room when he was born.

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   Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentSo I asked a fan outside what she makes of that.

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   Marcy HollowayI think the dad had the right idea.

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   Marcy HollowayI'd have cleared a few people out of my cousin's wedding, and the worst thing anybody was staring at there was the buffet.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo his father cleared the room on day one.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentAnd Hank, he's the first contestant on the show with a mechanical knee, and he says it was once the only mainstream place he saw disability represented.

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    Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI could use that dad out here.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorYou have a crowd of four, Skip, and one of them is a pigeon. Brock, what's outside today?