Short Biography of ROBERTA COWELL, RONDA ROUSEY, ROSIE SWALE-POPE, | 200 Words | in English

Biography of ROBERTA COWELL in Short

(1918-2011)

Robert Cowell had been obsessed with fast cars and big planes ever since he was a child. He joined the RAF as soon as he was old enough to do so. Unfortunately, he got sick in the air and had to drop out, so he turned to motor racing and sped along the ground instead.

When the Second World War broke out Robert decided to rejoin the RAF and successfully flew Tiger Moths and Spitfires in air battles with the Nazis. During one mission, he was blinded by a thick cloud and almost crashed into the sea, just managing to land on a cliff before his petrol had run out.

Another time, he blacked out while flying barely coming around in time to regain control. When he went down over Germany, Robert was taken captive and held for five months in a prisoner of war camp. He taught the other prisoners about cars and their engines. Sometimes they’d get so hungry they’d have to kill and eat the camp cats.

Once the war was over, Robert was sent home to England and focused his energies on motor racing.

But he never felt comfortable, never felt quite right. After seeing different psychologists, Robert started to realize that this was because he’d been born in the wrong body. Though he had the physical features of a male, he knew inside he was female, and he wanted a body to match.

So he began the long and difficult process of changing his body from a male body to a female one. The surgery was illegal, and to have it done, Robert had to leave behind his family, and tell the world that he had always had a female body. Robert became Roberta. She became the first person in Britain to go through the process.

Her change meant that Roberta couldn’t race the Grand Prix anymore, though she never stopped being involved in racing and never stopped flying planes.

Through the war, through the loneliness, and through her battle to become her true self, Roberta never once slowed down.

Biography of RONDA ROUSEY in Short

(BORN 1987)

Ronda’s birth was difficult and the complications meant she struggled to speak properly until she was six Only a couple of years after she started talking, her father died.

She was raised by her mother, who was a judoka a person who practices martial art judo. Her mother wanted Ronda to learn to fight, too, so she started training her. By the time she was thirteen, Ronda was so strong she accidentally broke her mother’s wrist.

But she struggled at school with how she looked: Ronda had skin problems, mangled ears from judo, and muscles from training. The other kids called her Miss Man, It hurt at the time, but a few years later, Ronda was the third-most Googled person in the world. She knows now that being strong is nothing to be ashamed of.

Fighting is not a man’s thing she says. ‘It’s a human thing.

Training with men bigger than her, Ronda became frustrated when she couldn’t throw anyone. She says she cried almost every night of practice.

But it paid off.

When she was seventeen, Ronda became the youngest ever judoka in the Olympics. She went on to become the first American to win an Olympic medal at judo and the first woman to sign with the UFC the Ultimate Fighting Championship. When she fought in the UFC the average time it took her to win a match was two minutes and fifty-nine seconds. It seemed like no one could beat her

Until one big fight, against Holly Holm. when Ronda unexpectedly lost and had to take time off to recover But she didn’t let it keep her down long.

Ronda’s gone into professional wrestling now, fighting under the name Rowdy. Fans go wild whenever she steps into the ring.

No one calls her Miss Man now.

Biography of ROSIE SWALE-POPE in Short

(BORN 1946)

On her fifty-seventh birthday, Rosie left her cottage in Wales and set out on a 20,000-mile run around the world.

Rosie wasn’t always so confident. When she was fourteen, she was sent to boarding school with lice in her hair, woolly tights, and huge knickers. She once got zero out of a hundred in a test. Being outdoors always interested her more.

As she grew up, Rosie spent her time sailing across oceans, running marathons through deserts and Arctic tundra, and riding horses through entire countries.

When her husband died of prostate cancer, she set out on her round the world marathon expedition with the aim of letting people know they should get tested for the disease before it’s too late. Beginning in the small seaside town of Tenby, she made her way across Europe, Russia, Alaska, Canada, and finally Iceland, before returning home five years later.

Along the way, she was chased by wolves, roared at by bears, threatened with guns and axes, hit by a bus, ill with pneumonia, and stuck in a blizzard. She pulled everything she needed along behind her in a trailer and spent nights either camping under the stars or staying with people she met. By the time Rosie got home, she was walking on crutches because she’d fractured her hip. Hundreds of people turned out to welcome her back to Tenby.

Rosie wants to encourage people to do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do. It could be anything jump out of a plane, ride a horse, or just make someone else’s day special when yours isn’t going too well.

It began as a journey of loneliness and heartbreak, Rosie said, but along the way it became about humanity, My message is, life is precious!