On my radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights

On my radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights

The wheelchair basketball star turned TV presenter on swimming with sea cows in Mozambique, a vegan-friendly Nigerian restaurant, and a brilliant podcast about race in America

Adedoyin Olayiwola “Ade” Adepitan was born in Lagos in 1973 and moved to London aged three. His legs damaged by polio as a baby, he became a wheelchair basketball player and was part of the bronze medal-winning British team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. Around the same time, he started appearing on TV, first as an actor and then as a sports and travel presenter. From 28 August to 8 September, Adepitan will co-host Channel 4’s coverage of the 2024 Paralympic Games; read his view of all the action in Guardian Sport during the Games. He lives in London with his wife, Scottish singer Linda Harrison, and their son.

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