A quick blog to say good luck to GB's squad doing their last minute preparations for the Paralympics starting in Beijing tomorrow. We've got 206 athletes competing in 18 Paralympic sports (and did you know there's 50 years between the youngest and oldest of our competitors?). Another lesser known fact is that the Paralympic Games started at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Aylesbury in 1948 when a certain Dr Ludwig Guttmann started a competition between sports groups and other hospitals at the same time as the Olympic Games which was also held in London that year. It's being going strong ever since and all the best to this year's team.
Posted at 17:14 05 September 2008 by Jim Murphy | Comments[1]
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Posted by Tim on September 09, 2008 at 08:59 PM BST #