Our GG is there to support our Paras. Maybe she will get to watch the Boccia, where an Australian is the world champion.
Paralympian and medical anthropologist P. David Howe has claimed that at least 2% of all athletes at the Paralympics are faking the extent of their disability
Paras are grouped by level of impairment in a particular sport - physical, visual or intellectual - to determine the category e.g C5 or C9 in which they compete for a particular sport.
Additionally a panel of experts assesses the degree of impairment of each athlete, as a qualifier for a particular event.
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Goalball actually looks really fun.
Michel, the Australian world champ, beat a Brit 7-2 in the preliminary Boccia round.
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Riley Batt got a huge write up in La Liberation ( in French only). The Michael Jordan of the Paras !
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Triathlon postponed, to much poo in the river
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These S3 swimmers are incredible.
ANNOUNCE AUSSIE DISQUALIFIED
What have those sharks been eating?
As a double arm amputee he “DIDN’T SHOW INTENT TO TOUCH THE WALL WITH 2 HANDS (if he had them)” when he went to turn
ANNOUNCE BLIND SOCCER
ANNOUNCE OVERTURNED
Dirty Italian rower DQed for cheating. Aussie upgraded to Bronze
WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Sort of defeats the purpose considering the Goalkeeper has 20/20 vision
Because of the russian invasion, Ukraine has sent its biggest number of athletes to the Paralympics - 140 of them will compete in 17 of the 22 sports.
Medal tally so far: 3 gold, 10 silver, 14 bronze.
Blind players can’t see the goal or the positioning of the goalkeeper.
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Each team also has two guides to help them, one at the halfway line and another behind the goal the team is attacking. The goalkeepers are not blind so they shout out instructions to the blind as well as the guides.
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■■■■ levels in the river low enough to run the triathlon it seems
He is one of the two Iraqi babies found in a shoebox after the War and adopted by Moira Kelly .