Paralympics Team GB thread

good luck to all our athletes

Kin awesome, just watched a bloke with no arms win the 100m back stroke race.

We watched the opening ceremony and build-up on channel 4 last night. I’m not sure their news readers John Snow and Krishnan Guru-Murthy were the right choice for this kind of thing. They are good political commentators and Rottweiler’s with politicians but this ad-lib commentary just didn’t suit them.

Good to see The Blading back though.

Very emotional piece about a woman who lost both her legs in the 7\7 bombings of the London Underground who is competing in the volley ball.

We have tickets for the athletics on Friday 7th.

i tried to get some tickets for the athletics but no luck

We got lucky, I think we logged into the ticketing web site during the 32 second window of opportunity.

Kray JR wrote:Kin awesome, just watched a bloke with no arms win the 100m back stroke race.

dont wanna be funny but isnt that just a "kick with ya legs race" in that case??

For Virgin customers with a TiVo box, Channel 4 live coverage on CH4, CH4HD, 550, 551, & 552 in HD, 553, 554, 555 in SD

No adverts on the streams broadcast on 550-5 either

our cyclist guy just got a silver in the individual time trial

Team GB football team have been drawn in the group of deaf

Sorry !

GB so far
Gold 1
Silver 3
Bronze 1

Personally I don't give a monkey's how many medals GB wins, I admire every single disabled sportsman that's competing. They put some of our own " problems" in perspective for sure.
The thing to be really proud of is that GB invented the Paralympics.

I'll second that Semi

I like the way that when Channel 4 goes to adverts, the music they play has the sound of a squeaky wheel in it

SemiOldIron wrote:Personally I don't give a monkey's how many medals GB wins, I admire every single disabled sportsman that's competing. They put some of our own " problems" in perspective for sure.
The thing to be really proud of is that GB invented the Paralympics.

quite agree mate
when i see these athletes i am quite ashamed of the lack of effort i put in to certain aspects of my life, in other words i am a lazy fucker

Gold 3
Silver 5
Bronze 3

more than that now, hannah cockroft in the wheelchair 100m just obliterated everyone to storm to gold and we got a few more silvers and bronzes in the swimming also :cheers:

Will bayley been on yet?

watched the blind football earlier... sod playing that

I wonder if the South Korean archer who's technically blind competes in both the Olympics and the Paralympics? Do you have to choose one or the other, anybody know? ( I'm too lazy to look it up!)

SemiOldIron wrote:I wonder if the South Korean archer who's technically blind competes in both the Olympics and the Paralympics? Do you have to choose one or the other, anybody know? ( I'm too lazy to look it up!)

no you just have to pass the qualification scores/times for the olympics and paralympics as far as i know anyway.

Did anyone see the 200m with our Brit Whitehead???? Where the hell did he get that kind of speed from in the last 50m.........That was incredible!!!

Stooby Doo 2002 wrote:Did anyone see the 200m with our Brit Whitehead???? Where the hell did he get that kind of speed from in the last 50m.........That was incredible!!!

Testosterone probably.

Stooby Doo 2002 wrote:Did anyone see the 200m with our Brit Whitehead???? Where the hell did he get that kind of speed from in the last 50m.........That was incredible!!!

It was awe-inspiring, he was like a combine harvester on nitro.... good job none of the others looked behind them, they would have chucked themselves out of the way!!

Looking forward to the tourettes 200M

"on your marks"

"get set"

"fcuk off"