The Relay

[BOOM]

Titles: Apple presents The Relay.

[WIND RUSTLING]

Floodlights illuminate an empty all-weather track.

[DISTANT LOUDSPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[HEARTBEATS]

Titles: Two teams. Eight athletes with and without disabilities. Competing together.

[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTINUE]

In black and white uniforms, adaptive athletes and nondisabled athletes pose together.

Announcer: Two teams combining athletes with and without disabilities, competing side by side.

[HEARTBEATS INTENSIFY]

Runners and swimmers crouch at starting blocks. A pair of cyclists prepares to race.

[BEEPING]

A wheelchair racer stares ahead and exhales sharply.

[ALARM TONE]

Now in bed, the wheelchair racer rolls over. Elsewhere in bed, an alarm goes off on an adaptive cyclist’s Apple Watch. She uses AssistiveTouch to select the Stop button.

[“ALL YOU CHILDREN” (FEAT. THE AVALANCHES) BY JAMIE XX PLAYS]

The adaptive cyclist sighs, gets out of bed and attaches a prosthetic arm.

Adaptive cyclist: Some people are just born to race.

An adaptive runner wearing prosthetic legs brushes his teeth. He picks up a framed photograph of himself as a child holding a baton and running in a race. An adaptive swimmer sits on his bed and puts on dark glasses. He holds his iPhone.

Adaptive swimmer: When you want to be great, nothing is going to stop you.

VoiceOver: Time in bed: seven hours, 16 minutes.

The wheelchair racer lifts herself out of bed and into her wheelchair. The adaptive cyclist uses the i-Limb app to adjust her bionic hand.

[ELECTRONIC WHIRRING]

She cracks an egg into a pan and scrambles the eggs with a wooden spoon.

[CLATTERING]

[SIZZLING]

At a table, the adaptive swimmer peels and eats an egg.

Adaptive cyclist: We have the same goals, the same mindset.

A male nondisabled runner sets an exercise goal on his Apple Watch for 90 minutes. The adaptive cyclist ties her shoe. The adaptive runner stows his running blades in a duffle. A male nondisabled runner packs running shoes into his gym bag.

Female nondisabled runner: Everyone is going out there for the same reason, to be the best.

The female nondisabled runner starts an Outdoor Run workout in the Exercise app on Apple Watch. The wheelchair racer starts an Outdoor Push Running Pace workout in the Exercise app on Apple Watch.

[BEEP]

A montage of athletes training plays.

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. We will dance to our own song.

The adaptive swimmer uses Detection Mode in the Magnifier app. He points at the lane number on a starting block.

VoiceOver: Hand detected. Two.

Now, he dives gracefully into a pool. As he approaches the wall, a handler taps him with a stick. He flip-turns.

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. We will dance together. The male nondisabled runner puts in AirPods Pro and engages Active Noise Cancellation.

[NOISE CANCELLATION TONE]

He begins jogging. The adaptive runner sprints down a city street. Now, cyclists train outdoors and in a facility.

[WHIRRING]

A coach shows a nondisabled swimmer a video of his swim on an iPad. Activity rings fill on iPhone and Apple Watch devices.

Adaptive cyclist: We train the same way. We practise the same way. We sweat the same way.

Lyrics: Feel the rhythm of my arms.

Various athletes lift weights and train. The adaptive cyclist attaches a prosthetic with a clamp at the end to her arm, then snaps the clamp onto a barbell.

[CLICK]

The nondisabled cyclist pops up from a crouched position with a dumbbell resting on her shoulders.

[YELLS]

The male nondisabled runner lifts a dumbbell above his head.

[GROANS]

The nondisabled swimmer drops a dumbbell, and it bounces off the ground.

[THUD]

A trainer holds on to the end of a racing wheelchair and shouts encouragement.

Trainer: Go! Go! Go!

As the athletes rest, their Apple Watch devices display their elevated heart rates.

[RHYTHMIC HEARTBEATS]

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. We will dance together.

Now, floodlights illuminate a track and field.

[FLICKERING]

[ELECTRIC HUM]

Titles: Race Day.

Competitors walk in pairs toward the starting lines for each race.

Announcer: Two teams featuring adaptive and nondisabled athletes, competing over four stages, starting with a 100-metre sprint on the track, into a 500-metre cycle in the velodrome, a 50-metre freestyle swim and back again to the track for a 400-metre finale.

Lyrics: Together.

The nondisabled cyclist slaps her chest, breathes deeply and takes hold of the handlebars.

[HUFFS]

The adaptive cyclist clamps her prosthetic arm onto the handlebar.

[CLICKING]

Announcer: On your marks.

The swimmers crouch on their starting blocks.

[SLOW HEARTBEATS FADE]

Announcer: Set.

The runners take position at their starting blocks. The athletes crouch in tense anticipation.

[GUNSHOT]

Two runners speed down the track.

[PANTING]

Adaptive runner: As a kid, all I wanted was to run and race, just like my friends.

The adaptive runner in a black uniform closes the distance between him and the male nondisabled runner in white.

Announcer: Stage two. Time advantage: team white.

Now, in the velodrome, two cyclists race.

Adaptive cyclist: I was never told, “You can’t do this, you can’t do that.”

Crouched over their handlebars, they speed around the velodrome and lean into a turn.

[WHIRRING]

Adaptive cyclist: I was just doing sport like everyone else.

[WHIRRING]

Announcer: Four hundred metres.

As they round a curve, the nondisabled cyclist in black speeds up.

[STARTING TONE]

The swimmers dive into a long-course pool.

[WHOOSHING]

Their arms slice through the water and they kick rapidly. Above them, a digital clock counts seconds. White bubbles trail in their wake. Light from large windows reflects off the water.

Titles: Additional software shown. Some apps and services may require a subscription. My i-Limb registered trademark is not a stand-alone medical device. Össur’s upper limb devices are 510(k) exempt, and are registered with the FDA.

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. We will dance.

Adaptive swimmer: There’s no difference between me and any other swimmer. When I get in the water, I want to win.

The adaptive swimmer pulls ahead as they approach the wall.

[GUNSHOT]

Announcer: Stage four. Time advantage: team black.

Wheelchair racer: When I am racing I feel free, I feel powerful.

The female nondisabled runner in black and the wheelchair racer in white speed down the track.

[TAPPING]

[PANTING]

Wheelchair racer: The track makes everyone equal.

The wheelchair racer gains on the female nondisabled runner.

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. All you children gather ‘round.

The female nondisabled runner stares intensely and pumps her arms. Her long braids whip behind her. The wheelchair racer’s arms move in circular motions, propelling her down the track.

Lyrics: We will dance and we will whirl. We will dance to our own song. We will spin to our own world.

They approach the finish line together. Cut to black.

[HEARTBEATS]

Now, the male nondisabled runner and the adaptive runner dap hands.

Adaptive runner: Oh, my god.

The swimmers embrace in the water.

Male nondisabled runner: We lined up at the same line, and we finish at the same line.

The female nondisabled runner and wheelchair racer pant after their race. The nondisabled cyclist fist-bumps the adaptive cyclist’s prosthetic hand.

Male nondisabled runner: It was just a matter of who got there first.

The male nondisabled runner and adaptive runner walk side by side. The adaptive runner’s running blades and the male nondisabled runner’s legs stride in sync as they walk together. The wheelchair racer and female nondisabled runner talk as they move down the track.

Lyrics: All you children gather ‘round. We will dance together.

Titles: Designed for every body.

The Apple logo.