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Getting acclimatised and ready 8:39pm on 08 Sep 2008 It is so good to see such positive coverage of the Paralympics. And there is much more than before. It's good to see that those who are otherwise healthy but who don't share the same physical perfection as most of us can achieve so much.
Does anyone know when the Paralympics started?
I used to go to watch the 'Invalid Games' at Stoke Mandeville Hospital as a child and have some photos from 1959 of the basketball, archery and javelin. I was impressed then and that has stayed with me.
Vicki Broadribb won a gold medal and world records for swimming at the 2000 Paralympics at Sydney. Yet we only saw a fleeting glimpse of her in the pool. How much better it is 8 years on, and to see the young 13 year old do so well.
Go Britain! Show the world what we can do.
PS I am able bodied by the way

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