Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center, Bangkok —
Wikinews interviewed Caitlin de Wit, of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders. The Gliders are in Bangkok, Thailand, for the Asia–Oceania Zone Wheelchair Basketball Championships, which are being held at the Thai-Japanese Bangkok Youth Center. Wikinews caught up with her on Tuesday, before the Gliders' match against China.
((Wikinews))  Where were you born?
((WN))  When did you come to Australia?
((WN))  And then you moved to whereabouts?
((WN))  A I believe you had a horse riding accident?
((WN))  What sort of horse riding were you doing?
((WN))  And you fell off.
((WN))  And you were at uni[versity] at the time?
((WN))  What was the degree in? 
((WN))  And you played sport before then?
((WN))  So what made you take up basketball?
((WN))  So which team did you join?
((WN))  There's a local Wagga team?
((WN))  So you played with the Hills Hornets. 
((WN))  And when was that?
((WN))  Did they win the championships that year?
((WN))  They won for a series of years straight...
((WN))  And you joined the junior Australian women's team?
((WN))  And where did you go with them?
((WN))  When was that?
((WN))  And you're still playing with the Flames in Sydney. And you played for the Gliders at the Osaka Cup?
((WN))  And that was in January this year?
((WN))  And that was your first trip overseas with the senior side
((WN))  And now this is therefore your second trip with the Gliders?
((WN))  Been overseas much before then?
((WN))  Being from South Africa.
((WN))  Have you played anywhere overseas with any other teams?
((WN))  So how are you enjoying it here in Bangkok?
((WN))  I keep worrying about whether they are going to blockade the airport when we need to get out of here.
((WN))  Okay, so enjoy it!

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Wikinews Interviews Australian wheelchair basketball player Caitlin de Wit