Paralympics 2012 Daily Diary

The_Kew_Tour · 03-09-2012 08:01AM

Have to say im enjoying these games as much as Olympics. Not seeing as much cause of work, but what I have I have been impressed.

Agree with others about Wheelchair Basketball. Some of the skill in that is not far of what I watch in NBA. Unreal ability.

Looking like we will at least have another Gold by tonight, with bit of luck little more.

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 08:30AM

Another day and more medal prospects. Can we have the Paralympics every year please..?

Mental Mickey · 03-09-2012 08:33AM

LOL @ Pistorious' "whinge". Beaten by the better man.

KevIRL · 03-09-2012 08:45AM

Dan man wrote: »

Medal Watch.... A quiet day tomorrow in terms of Irish competitors in action, but don't let that fool you into thinking we'll get a chance to get our breath back!! Surely we'll be celebrating yet another gold medal tomorrow night when golden boy Michael McKillop goes in the T37 1,500m....he is the outstanding favourite in this event, even more so than the 800m which he won comfortably.

Is definitely today Dan? I thought I heard it being said at the weekend that it was on Saturday? Maybe that was Jason Smyths 200m though.

One way or another it seems very soon after the 800m final on Saturday night

Brian017 · 03-09-2012 11:48AM

Eilish Byrne narrowly misses out on a medal in the individual freestyle test grade II. She was 3rd with one rider left and missed out by 0.9%

Still she had a silver and a bronze before this if I'm not mistaken, so a great Games for her!

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 11:56AM

Brian017 wrote: »

Eilish Byrne narrowly misses out on a medal in the individual freestyle test grade II. She was 3rd with one rider left and missed out by 0.9%

Still she had a silver and a bronze before this if I'm not mistaken, so a great Games for her!

Oooh... So close...

getz · 03-09-2012 12:06PM

Maryanne40 wrote: »

Pisco Sour....some truth indeed in all the points you raise...but we should be extremely proud of our Paralympians and there is no doubt they WON'T get the attention the others got.

Shocking how (relatively) poorly the US are doing...and they have the money to spend surely. And for such a long time they led the way in disability rights etc. On the other hand good to see the Chinese take the paras seriously and hopefully people with disabilities there are beginning to have an easier time in terms of human rights and so n.

it does not supprise me that the USA ,is not doing that well.unlike ireland and the UK who look after those with disability, in the US they are still looked on as second class citizens,its a social care thing

Dan man · 03-09-2012 12:35PM

Brian017 wrote: »

Eilish Byrne narrowly misses out on a medal in the individual freestyle test grade II. She was 3rd with one rider left and missed out by 0.9%

Still she had a silver and a bronze before this if I'm not mistaken, so a great Games for her!

Hard luck Eilish, so close to another medal....yet another 4th place for Ireland...we've had 5 or 6 now already, it's a pity but still great performances.

The_Kew_Tour · 03-09-2012 12:36PM

We have had about 4 or 5 4th place finishes in these games so far too now.

Going along very well.

robinph · 03-09-2012 12:37PM

getz wrote: »

it does not supprise me that the USA ,is not doing that well.unlike ireland and the UK who look after those with disability, in the US they are still looked on as second class citizens,its a social care thing

The UK tended to be at the top of the medal tables, due to historical reasons of where it started and that in turn makes disability a more visible thing and then more likely to be able to find the good athletes. That China have been dominating for the last few games is great and must surely be down to them having hosted the Olympics last time so put the time into getting disables athletes out in the open. They did mention that Ukraine doing so well in some of the more severely disabled categories was down to them having expected to have a lot more people effected by Chernobyl so put a lot of investment into their care but then luckily those numbers of casualties didn't emerge.

endswell · 03-09-2012 03:54PM

ive only spotted a few brazilian paralympians but hopefully there are more, important if we want to carry on the success of these games

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 04:53PM

I'm watching the Paralympic swimming in complete awe. People with no arms doing a backstroke, and doing it mighty fast too...:)

KevIRL · 03-09-2012 06:12PM

John McCarthy 7th in the final of the 100m wheelchair T51.

Skid · 03-09-2012 07:28PM

Setanta are showing full live coverage of the Athletics at the moment, Channel 4 are doing a lot of analysis and interviews.

Karolina Kucharczyk just won the F20 Long Jump. Each of her first five jumps would have beaten the old World Record. I didn't see her final jump, but what a sequence.

http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athletics/event/women-long-jump-f20/index.html

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 07:31PM

Quality athletics coverage from Setanta tonight. Euan saying the same this every 5 minutes is a bit grinding on Ch 4...

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 07:34PM

Skid wrote: »

Setanta are showing full live coverage of the Athletics at the moment, Channel 4 are doing a lot of analysis and interviews.

Karolina Kucharczyk just won the F20 Long Jump. Each of her first five jumps would have beaten the old World Record. I didn't see her final jump, but what a sequence.

http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athletics/event/women-long-jump-f20/index.html

She's stunningly beautiful aswell...

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 07:36PM

Michael must be up soon...

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 07:48PM

Ch 4 will be showing the race...

Skid · 03-09-2012 07:51PM

Here we go, Good Luck, Michael. Do the Double.

Skid · 03-09-2012 07:55PM

Different Class !!!

Chalk up another Gold !!!

Kerrydude1981 · 03-09-2012 07:56PM

Go on you good thing,I loved the salutes to the crowd at the end

Dan man · 03-09-2012 07:57PM

Michael McKillop....GOLD MEDAL #2!!

F.R. · 03-09-2012 07:57PM

Amazing run, there's just no stopping him.

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 07:57PM

Well done Michael. You came, you saw, you conquered..:)

Dan man · 03-09-2012 07:59PM

Medal watch....

IRELAND 5 GOLD 2 SILVER 1 BRONZE 8 TOTAL

The_Kew_Tour · 03-09-2012 08:00PM

Different Gravy this chap.

5 Gold Medals now.:)

KevIRL · 03-09-2012 08:00PM

Never ever in doubt, outstanding stuff.

Maryanne40 · 03-09-2012 08:03PM

He's so relaxed.....wonderful to watch

UKJon · 03-09-2012 08:04PM

Skid wrote: »

Setanta are showing full live coverage of the Athletics at the moment, Channel 4 are doing a lot of analysis and interviews.

Don't forget Channel 4 not only have the output on the main channels but 3 extra streams dedicated to certain events, if you've got Sky.

LEXI is a very important innovation, the fact is the vast majority of people don't understand Paralympic sport, which led to people saying Ellie Simmonds somehow has a an unfair advantage in the pool. I'd be interested to know how Setanta are explaining the classifications.

Silvio.Dante · 03-09-2012 08:09PM

OMFG!!! Did you see the high jump just there? The lad has one leg, ONE!!!

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