HERE AT FASHION SHOW IMAGES, WE ARE FINDING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE SUCCESS OF OUR PARALYMPIC HEROES
THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AWARDED ALED DAVIES HIS GOLD MEDAL
AS THEY CONTINUALLY DELIVER MEDAL AFTER MEDAL.
WE FEEL HONOURED TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COVERAGE AT LEAST IN SOME SMALL WAY AND FEEL COMPLETELY INSPIRED BY THE STRENGTH AND DETERMINATION OF SUCH SUPERB ATHLETES. (NOT JUST OUR OWN “SUPER-HEROES”, BUT WORLDWIDE).
WITH THE NEXT ROUND OF FASHION WEEKS NEARLY UPON US, WE HAVE TO SADLY NOW SAY GOODBYE TO OUR COVERAGE OF THE LONDON PARALYMPICS 2012, AS WE ARE OFF TO NEW YORK TO COVER NEW YORK FASHION WEEK, FOLLOWED BY LONDON, MILAN AND PARIS.
CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK TO OUR SUPERB PARALYMPIC AND OLYMPIC ATHLETES WHO ARE TRULY “INSPIRING A GENERATION”
THESE HAPPY SCHOOLCHILDREN FROM SURREY WERE ALLOCATED TICKETS TO THE PARALYMPIC & OLYMPIC GAMES!
JENNY McLOUGHLIN, KATRINA HART, OLIVIA BREEN AND BETHANY WOODWARD WON THE BRONZE MEDAL IN THE 4 x 100 M RELAY T35/38 EVENT LAST NIGHT!
THERE WAS A LITTLE CONFUSION OVER THE BATON CHANGE-OVER INITIALLY, BUT IT ALL WORKED OUT IN THE END WITH THE GIRLS EXCITEDLY CLAIMING THE BRONZE. WELL DONE GIRLS!!
DAVID WEIR HAS WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE 1500M T54 WHEELCHAIR RACE!
HE WAS BOXED IN MUCH OF THE WAY, WITH HIS OPPONENTS KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON HIM, BUT HE FOUND HIS WAY POLITELY THROUGH TO STORM TO GOLD TOWARDS THE END OF THE RACE, LIKE THE GENTLEMAN AND CHAMPION THAT HE IS!!
POWERHOUSE DAVID WEIR
WELL DONE DAVID - YOU HAVE INSPIRED SO MANY AND WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!
PAUL BLAKE HAS WON A SUPERB SILVER MEDAL IN THE 400M T36 EVENT!! HE WON HIS SILVER IN 53.31 AND LOOKED OVERJOYED AS HE DID A ‘LAP OF HONOUR’. IT IS SAID THAT PAUL COMES FROM A SPORTING FAMILY, WHO WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE FEELING VERY PROUD RIGHT NOW…. WELL DONE PAUL!!!
OVER AT THE AQUATICS CENTRE, STEPHANIE MILLWARD WON A SILVER MEDAL IN THE WOMEN’S 400M FREESTYLE S9 FINAL, AND HEATHER FREDERIKSEN WON GOLD IN THE S8 100M BACKSTROKE!!
SOPHIE CHRISTIANSEN HAS WON ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL IN THE INDIVIDUAL FREESTYLE EQUESTRIAN EVENT!! WELL DONE SOPHIE!!
ELLIE SIMMONDS HAS WON A SPECTACULAR BRONZE MEDAL TO ADD TO HER COLLECTION IN THE S6 50M FREESTYLE FINAL TODAY. WELL DONE (ONCE AGAIN) ELLIE!!!!
DANIELLE BROWN BEAT TEAM-MATE MEL CLARKE TO AN ARCHERY GOLD MEDAL IN THE WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL COMPOUND. WELL DONE TO ALL!!
DAVID DEVINE WON A BRONZE EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE T13 1500M
DAVID DEVINE DEFINES SUPERB ATHLETICISM AS HE WINS A BRONZE MEDAL TODAY IN THE T13 1500M EVENT
SOPHIE WELLS HAS WON HER SECOND SILVER MEDAL OF THE PARALYMPICS TODAY ON HER HORSE PINOCCHIO WITH A SUPER SCORE OF 81.150% IN THE GRADE IV FREESTYLE.
WELL DONE SOPHIE!!!
A SUPERB BRONZE MEDAL FOR GREAT BRITAIN’S PARALYMPIC BOCCIA TEAM IN THE MIXED BC1-2 CATEGORY WITH A 7-5 WIN OVER PORTUGAL!! CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!
MICKEY BUSHELL – WINS GREAT BRITAINS 19th GOLD MEDAL
THE MAN WITH HIS SOUL IN HIS EYES
MICKEY BUSHELL STORMED TO VICTORY LAST NIGHT IN THE 100M T53 FINAL WHEELCHAIR RACE AT THE PARALYMPICS IN A FANTASTIC TIME OF 14.75 SECS. HE BEAT CHINA’S ZHAO YUFEI, WHO WON THE SILVER MEDAL IN AN IMPRESSIVE 15.09 SECS.
ANYONE WATCHING THE RACE WILL HAVE SEEN WHAT A POWERFUL ATHLETE HE IS, BUT REFRESHINGLY MICKEY SAID THAT WHEN HE CROSSED THE FINISHING LINE, HE NEARLY CRIED. ALSO, ANYONE WATCHING THE MEDALS CEREMONY WOULD HAVE SEEN THE PRIDE, (AND MAYBE EVEN A SENSE OF DISBELIEF) IN HIS TRULY SOULFUL EYES.
HE SAID HE WAS COMPLETELY INSPIRED BY SUPERSTAR DAVID WEIR LAST NIGHT WHEN HE WON THE T54 5,000 M FINAL, AND WAS ‘BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS IN HIS HOTEL ROOM’. MANY, MANY CONGRATULATIONS MICKEY!!
WELL DONE MICKEY!!
MICKEY BUSHELL HAS JUST WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE MEN’S 100M T53 EVENT IN A STUPENDOUS 14.75 SECONDS!!!
ELLIE SIMMONDS WON HER SECOND GOLD OF THE PARALYMPICS TODAY IN THE 200M SM6 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY.
SUPERSTAR ELLIE SIMMONDS
ELLIE WON IN THREE MINUTES 5.39 SECONDS, BEATING GERMANY’S VERENA SHOTT (WHO CAME SECOND), AND ELLIE’S TEAM-MATE NATALIE WADDON, WHO CAME THIRD. HER GOLD MEDAL WAS PRESENTED TO HER BY DAVID CAMERON!!
BRITON SASCHA KINDRED EARLIER WON A SILVER IN THE 200M IM-SM6 FINAL, AFTER HE WAS BEATEN IN THE MEN’S EVENT BY CHINA’S XU QING.
LEE PEARSON WON A BRONZE MEDAL TODAY IN THE EQUESTRIAN FREESTYLE EVENT AFTER A SUPERB PERFORMANCE ON HIS HORSE GENTLEMAN. ALTHOUGH HIS SCORE OF 74.200 PER CENT WAS AMAZING, HE WAS BEATEN TO SILVER BY FINLAND’S KATJA KARJALAINEN, AND THE GOLD MEDAL WENT TO PEPO PUCH FROM AUSTRIA. WELL DONE LEE!!
NATASHA BAKER HAS JUST WON HER SECOND PARALYMPIC GOLD MEDAL IN THE GRADE II FREESTYLE EVENT ON HER HORSE CABRAL WITH A SUPERB SCORE OF 82.800 PER CENT.
WELL DONE NATASHA!!
ALED DAVIES WAS AWARDED HIS GOLD MEDAL BY THE DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE LAST NIGHT!!! WHAT A PERFECT DAY IT WAS YESTERDAY FOR ALED…
ALED SAID WHEN INTERVIEWED THAT HE DEFERRED HIS THIRD YEAR AT UNIVERSITY TO FOLLOW HIS DREAMS AND COMPETE IN THE PARALYMPICS – WELL IT SEEMS THAT IF YOU TRY HARD ENOUGH - DREAMS REALLY CAN COME TRUE…!
DAVID WEIR STORMED TO VICTORY LAST NIGHT SCOOPING THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE MEN’S 5000M T54 FINAL.
POWERHOUSE DAVID WEIR
ANOTHER MEDAL FOR HANNAH RUSSELL IN THE 100M BUTTERFLY FINAL!!
HANNAH RUSSELL WON ANOTHER MEDAL IN THE 100M FINAL OF THE S12 BUTTERFLY. THIS TIME THE BRONZE MEDAL. DARYA STUKALOVA OF RUSSIA WON THE SILVER AND JOANNA MENDAK FROM POLAND WON THE GOLD!!
GREAT BRITAIN’S SOPHIE CHRISTIANSEN HAS WON A SUPERB GOLD IN THE INDIVIDUAL DRESSAGE 1a GRADE. SOPHIE WAS IN PERFECT HARMONY WITH HER HORSE JANEIRO 6.
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE. WELL DONE SOPHIE & JANEIRO 6!!!
BRITAIN’S JESSICA-JANE APPLEGATE HAS JUST WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE WOMEN’S 200M FREESTYLE S14 FINAL!! WELL DONE JESSICA!!
GREAT BRITAIN’S ANTHONY KAPPES HAS BEATEN RIVAL BRITON TEAM-MATE NEIL FACHIE IN THE FINAL TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE MEN’S INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT EVENT.
CRAIG MACLEAN & ANTHONY KAPPES
ANTHONY AND HIS PILOT CRAIG MACLEAN RODE EXCEPTIONALLY WELL AND LOOKED DELIGHTED WITH THEIR WIN!!
CRAIG MACLEAN & ANTHONY KAPPES
WELL DONE – TO ALL!!
AILEEN McGLYNN AND CO-PILOT HELEN SCOTT WIN A BRONZE MEDAL TODAY IN THE WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT EVENT, TO ADD TO THEIR COLLECTION (See the Girls Below With their Silver Medals Which They Won In the Tandem 1KM Time Trial the other day..)
HELEN SCOTT & AILEEN McGLYNN
ALED DAVIES WINS A GOLD MEDAL IN DISCUS F42 EVENT
ALED DAVIES WAS EXTREMELY HAPPY TODAY AFTER WINNING HIS SECOND MEDAL OF THE PARALYMPICS .
NOT ONLY HAS HE ALREADY WON A BRONZE MEDAL IN THE SHOT PUT EVENT ON FRIDAY
LOVELY ALED DAVIES – OVERJOYED TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL
BUT HE HAS NOW ADDED A GOLD MEDAL TO HIS COLLECTION FOR HIS SUPERB PERFORMANCE IN THE F42 DISCUS FINAL!
WELL DONE ALED!!
SOPHIE WELLS WINS A SILVER MEDAL IN THE GRADE IV INDIVIDUAL EQUESTRIAN EVENT!
SOPHIE WELLS & HER HORSE PINOCCHIO
SOPHIE WELLS MADE HER PARALYMPIC DEBUT TODAY ON HER MOUNT PINOCCHIO SCOOPING A SILVER MEDAL, WITH A SCORE OF 76.323%. SOPHIE WAS MARGINALLY BEATEN BY MICHELE GEORGE FROM BELGIUM WHO SCORED 77.065%. FRANK HOSMAR FROM THE NETHERLANDS SCOOPED THE BRONZE IN 73.097%
GREAT BRITAIN WIN GOLD IN MIXED COX FOUR!!
GREAT BRITAIN HAVE WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE MIXED COX FOUR RACE AT ETON DORNEY THIS MORNING, BEATING GERMANY (WHO CAME SECOND) AND UKRAINE (WHO CAME THIRD). WELL DONE EVERYONE!!
PARALYMPICS POSTER GIRL ELLIE SIMMONDS WINS THE FINAL OF THE WOMEN’S 400M FREESTYLE – S6 IN 5.19.17 MINUTES.
ELLIE SIMMONDS RECEIVES HER GOLD MEDAL
IN AN EXTRAORDINARY RACE, WHEN ELLIE SIMMONDS WAS SLIGHTLY BEHIND VICTORIA ARLEN OF THE UNITED STATES
ELLIE SEEMED TO ‘DIG DEEP’ ON THE LAST LAP TO SUMMON ALL OF HER ENERGY TO PROPELL HERSELF AHEAD OF HER RIVAL
FINISHING THE RACE IN SPECTACULAR FASHION IN A WORLD RECORD TIME OF 5.19.17 MINUTES. WELL DONE ELLIE!!!
SAM INGRAM WINS A SILVER IN JUDO FOR GREAT BRITAIN!
YOU MAY NOT HAVE WON THE GOLD YOU WANTED TO SAM, BUT WE ARE PROUD OF YOU – A SILVER MEDAL IS SUPERB! (ALSO WELL DONE AND MUCH RESPECT TO YOUR BROTHER JOE AND YOUR OTHER BROTHERS MARC AND DAN ALSO FOR TRYING THEIR BEST).
JODY CUNDY WIN’S A BRONZE MEDAL IN THE MEN’S INDIVIDUAL C4 PURSUIT!!
AFTER HIS ANGUISH YESTERDAY AT NOT BEING ALLOWED A RE-START DURING THE C4-5 1KM TIME TRIAL, JODY CUNDY WON A SUPERB BRONZE MEDAL FOR GREAT BRITAIN TODAY IN THE MEN’S INDIVIDUAL C4 PURSUIT.
JODY CUNDY IS ONE OF OUR MOST DECORATED ATHLETES, BUT YESTERDAY, IN A CRUEL TWIST OF FATE, HE WAS DISQUALIFIED FROM THE INDIVIDUAL C4/C5 1KM TIME TRIAL, BECAUSE OF A PROBLEM WITH HIS BACK WHEEL. JODY WAS DEVASTATED. (QUITE RIGHTLY – AFTER TRAINING FOR FOUR YEARS).
YOU ARE A WINNER JODY – MEDAL OR NO MEDAL – YOU HAVE DONE US PROUD!! THE BRONZE WAS SUPERB!!
JON-ALLAN BUTTERWORTH WON ANOTHER SILVER THIS AFTERNOON, THIS TIME, IN THE MEN’S 4,000 M INDIVIDUAL C5 PURSUIT FINAL. WAR HERO JON, WHO LOST HIS ARM DURING AN ATTACK IN IRAQ WAS ‘PIPPED TO THE POST’ BY AUSTRALIA’S MICHAEL GALLAGHER.
JON-ALLAN BUTTERWORTH WINS SILVER MEDAL!
NATASHA BAKER WON HER FIRST BRITISH EQUESTRIAN GOLD MEDAL OF THE LONDON PARALYMPIC GAMES TODAY, SCORING A GRADE II RECORD 76.857% ON HER HORSE ‘CABRAL’ TO CLAIM THE INDIVIDUAL DRESSAGE TITLE.
NATASHA’S MOTHER SAID THAT WHEN NATASHA WAS YOUNGER AND HAD ANNOUNCED TO HER THAT SHE WANTED TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL AT THE PARALYMPIC GAMES -
- SHE SAID THAT SHE DIDN’T DOUBT HER, KNOWING WHAT A VERY POSITIVE AND DETERMINED YOUNG LADY SHE WAS. SHE SAID THAT AT THE TIME SHE THOUGHT “YES, I DO BELIEVE YOU CAN, AND YOU PROBABLY WILL”.
MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO NATASHA AND HER FAMILY TODAY…!
SARAH STOREY WINS HER SECOND GOLD MEDAL OF LONDON 2012 PARALYMPICS IN THE C4-5 500M INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL!!
SARAH STOREY (WHO IS THE WIFE OF BARNEY STOREY – BELOW – WHO HAS ALSO JUST WON A GOLD MEDAL IN THE TANDEM EVENT) DID NOT DISAPPOINT HER FANS WHO ALL EXPECTED ANOTHER GOLD!
SARAH WON HER SECOND GOLD IN A SUPERB TIME OF 36.997 SECONDS!
WELL DONE SARAH – WE SALUTE YOU. (THIS IS SARAH’S NINTH GOLD MEDAL!)
NEIL FACHIE & BARNEY STOREY STORMED TO VICTORY IN THE CYCLING TANDEM EVENT IN 1.01.351 THIS MORNING SETTING A NEW WORLD RECORD!!
WELL DONE CHAPS!!
RICHARD WHITEHEAD WINS GOLD MEDAL IN THE T42 200M FINAL
RICHARD WHITEHEAD RAN AN ASTONISHING RACE THIS MORNING SCOOPING THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE T42 200M FINAL. HIS PERFORMANCE WAS UNBELIEVABLE! (HE WAS INCREDIBLY FAST IN THE LATTER PART OF THE RACE)- WHICH IS WHERE HE TURNED ON HIS SO-CALLED ‘TURBO-BOOSTER’.
HE SHOT PAST THE OTHER ATHLETES, GOING FROM EIGHTH PLACE TO FIRST AT LIGHTNING SPEED (WHICH REALLY HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED) TOWARDS THE END OF THE RACE, TO WIN IN THE REMARKABLE TIME OF 24.38 SEC, WHICH SHAVED 0.55 SEC OFF HIS OWN WORLD RECORD. WELL DONE RICHARD!!!
POWER & CONFIDENCE – HANNAH COCKROFT
HANNAH COCKROFT WON A GOLD MEDAL TONIGHT IN THE 100M WHEELCHAIR RACE IN 18.05 SECONDS, WHICH BEAT THE RECORD SHE HAD SET EARLIER IN THE DAY WHILST QUALIFYING FOR THE FINAL.
WELL DONE HANNAH!!!
HANNAH FINISHED THE RACE OVER A SECOND FASTER THAN DUTCH AMY SIEMONS, WITH ANOTHER SUPERB TIME OF 19.49 SECS., AND AUSTRALIAN ROSEMARY LITTLE WAS A LITTLE BEHIND AND CROSSED THE FINISHING LINE AT 19.95 secs. WELL DONE LADIES!!!