Paralympics.. Anyone watching it?

A good day for team GB.
Our 200m sprinter completely took the field apart..

Paralympics 2012: Richard Whitehead wins 200m gold for GB

British sprinter Richard Whitehead blasted through the field in the final 50m to win gold in the T42 200m.
Whitehead, a double above-the-knee amputee, crossed the line in 24.38 seconds to break his own world record.
The USA's Shaquille Vance trailed in 25.55s, with Germany's Heinrich Popow third in 25.90s.
Whitehead, 36, who will also run in the T42 100m, said: "That was a good performance, I've trained hard for that."
"I have an amazing team behind me. Today was about giving back a performance suitable for a GB vest," he added.
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The 200m was nothing with the situations I've had growing up
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Whitehead, who competed for GB in the sledge hockey event at the 2006 Winter Paralympics, is also the marathon world record holder but was denied a chance to compete in London with arm amputees in the T46 class due to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) regulations.
The sprinter failed in his attempt to challenge the rule at the Court of Arbitration for Sport last year, but has hopes of running in the marathon at the 2016 Paralympics.
"I'm a marathon runner that's taken well to the 200m," Whitehead said. "I came, I saw, I conquered.
"I've overcome so many things in my life. The 200m was nothing with the situations I've had growing up. Hopefully the IPC see sport as inclusive rather than exclusive for the Rio 2016 Games."
Britain's Gemma Prescott set a European record of 20.50m to win bronze in the women's F31/32/51 club throw while there were also bronzes for Rob Womack in the F54/55/56 shot and Claire Williams in the F11/12 discus.

Our cyclists are also cooking on gas!

 

These guys really are super humans

 

Aye, the Irish lad who just won the 800m and broke the WR, Michael McKillop is good friends with my ex (the one I went to Portugal with) and a good few other people I know from Belfast. He slowed a lot at the end, he does this on purpose 'cause he gets £££ every time he breaks the record!

 

Can't blame him JWAG.
More investment s needed for sure.
Its gret to watch though.

 

Aside from the obvious ad breaks, C4's coverage has been good, certainly an improvement on past coverage.

'Last Leg' has been excellent so far, turning over MotD at half past for it since we're not going to be on.

 

Can't get myself into it. It's amazing and inspirational what they do, but I just can't see the fairness in someone with no arms getting hammered in a swimming race by people with 3 and a half perfectly fine limbs.

Add the Pistorius debacle to that and it's just not for me.

 

2nd in the medal table with 79 so far.... astounding... really is.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/19083815

 

Matt Walker in the swimming was a choker.
His dad died and he was cracking up in the interview.. later on he proudly held aloft a pic of his dad on the podium.
Claire Balding was in tears doing the link.
Here's an article all acount that remarkable man.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...on-to-bronze-by-memory-of-devoted-father.html

 

Ellie Simmonds poster girl of pool and Sarah Storey track cyclist. Sarah's husband Barney also a tandem gold medalist as able bodied rider.
I'm impressed by the blind footballers and athletes.
My husband comes through the Tyne Tunnell and they are renaming them daily after and Paralympian.

 

what a great touch.