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Not sure if anyone is planning to watch any of the Paralympics, but what I have watched in the past has been truly humbling.
These are real heroes, overcoming such adversity to achieve monumental things in their lives. It puts an awful lot into perspective.
Good luck to all competing in it - I salute you all.
Bungle

bunglemark2 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:01 pm wrote:Not sure if anyone is planning to watch any of the Paralympics, but what I have watched in the past has been truly humbling.
These are real heroes, overcoming such adversity to achieve monumental things in their lives. It puts an awful lot into perspective.
Good luck to all competing in it - I salute you all.
Bungle

I havent seen any of this but I did plan to. I find it funny how all the adulation, all the pride of being british, all the sickening hypocrisy relating to the Olympics are totally lost with regards to the paralympics. THIS is where the pride is. THIS is where the real work is, and this is where ZERO recognition exists.

Good luck to all our lads and lasses.

they have been great...strange seeing my mate on tv all the time. (Danny Crates)
shame he is not running but just working on c4.

Good luck to them but personally I'm not remotely interested, especially when I see stuff like this.

Pistorius claims Brazilian champion Alan Oliveira had longer prosthetic blades that gave him greater stride length

Race analysis suggests superior leg speed rather than stride length was key to upset

F'uck me they're not complaining about drug abuse, instead they're moaning about the advantage another "athlete" gained from the use of superior screw on limbs !. What next ? F1 type testing to ensure wheelchairs are all within certain parameters ?

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bunglemark2 » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:01 pm wrote:Not sure if anyone is planning to watch any of the Paralympics, but what I have watched in the past has been truly humbling.
These are real heroes, overcoming such adversity to achieve monumental things in their lives. It puts an awful lot into perspective.
Good luck to all competing in it - I salute you all.
Bungle

well said mate.

woof woof ! » Tue Sep 04, 2012 4:03 pm wrote:Good luck to them but personally I'm not remotely interested, especially when I see stuff like this.

Pistorius claims Brazilian champion Alan Oliveira had longer prosthetic blades that gave him greater stride length

Race analysis suggests superior leg speed rather than stride length was key to upset

F'uck me they're not complaining about drug abuse, instead they're moaning about the advantage another "athlete" gained from the use of superior screw on limbs !. What next ? F1 type testing to ensure wheelchairs are all within certain parameters ?

the funny thing is that Pistorius has spent the last 4 years fighting to get into normal races saying its all to do with upper boday and theres not a advantage on blades or how long they are.........and now he says there is.


in truth its just made him look silly.

lakes10 » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:26 am wrote:they have been great...strange seeing my mate on tv all the time. (Danny Crates)
shame he is not running but just working on c4.

Well if were name dropping then........ Adam Gemili who ran in the 100m is a mate of mine

James O'shea      I went to school with this bloke, well done fella congratulations!

http://paralympics.channel4.com/the-ath ... index.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... quest.html

I actually didn't realise he had his legs slashed off by a train!  It wasn't until I saw the Olympics I knew of his story.

Well curtain come down with a fine show

Congratulations to all the athlete's  for their efforts

And well done to UK for putting on the great show