OUR swimmers were the stars as Para GB continued their impressive medal haul at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio. Ellie Simmonds, Sascha Kindred and Susie Rodgers all won golds in the pool on day five. It is GB’s 28th gold medal and number 63 in total as China sit at the summit with 118. […]
ELLIE ROBINSON only turned 15 last month but she has a confident head on young shoulders judging by her incredible “gangster” entrance in Rio. The schoolgirl Paralympic swimmer strode onto poolside in a huge black jacket with the hood up – and when fans cheered her name she stretched her arms out in response. Viewers […]
JONNIE PEACOCK successfully defended his T44 100m Paralympic title with a blistering performance in Rio. The world’s fastest man on one leg stormed home in a time of 10.81 seconds – equalling the Games record he set in Thursday’s heat. Peacock’s win secured Great Britain’s seventh gold medal of an extraordinary second day in Brazil. […]
JODY CUNDY won an emotional Paralympic gold medal in Rio tonight – four years after he was sensationally disqualified at his home Games. The British cyclist won the C4/C5 1km time-trial in 1min 04.492secs to claim his sixth Paralympic gold. The 37-year-old from Wisbech had hoped that landmark would come in front of a home crowd at […]
ANYTHING Lionel Messi can do, we can do better… That’s the message from the blind boys of Brazil who set their own country alight with a 3-1 preliminary blind football group victory over Morocco. Ricardinho slammed in a 31st minute penalty – just like Messi did when and Barcelona mates Sergio Busquets, Jordi Masip, […]