I’m sorry that I didn’t get a chance to do as much Paralympics blogging as I intended. But I wanted to endorse all the sentiments on the last open thread. And – in an illustration of how much photography can speak – to share this image of Cuban athlete Yunidis Castillo winning the Women’s T46 200m final on the track. It’s one of the most powerful and beautiful images I can remember seeing. Credit goes to Laurent Baheux and the French Paralympics website, where you can see a much larger version of the image. [Another couple of photos of the race are here.]
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I didn’t get to watch as much as I had planned/hoped to. Enjoyed all of what I did.
Favourite moment ….watching my cousin’s eldest boy win silver in the pool. V. exciting. Only missed out by some hundreths of a second, a great swim.
It’s too early in the day for me to think beyond cliches, but the athletes and their achievements really are inspiring and exciting. A few more cliches: emotional, joyous, sporting. PBs and new records falling like those autumn leaves.
I was able to watch most of ABC1′s twice-nightly highlight hours, and the opening and closing ceremonies – certainly the best coverage of paralympics I’ve seen, and, it seems, equally high standard of facilities for competitors and their teams for both olympics. About time!
I’m not a sport watcher and only made one attempt to watch the Olympics – turned on the TV at 9.00 pm and saw advertisements, people at a desk talking about events, advertisements, inspiring moments from previous Olympics, advertisements … and turned it off.
Certainly didn’t intend watching any Paralympics but turned on at 6.30 to see Talking Heads, saw it was sport, but before I could walk back to the set to turn it off (can’t manage remote controls) I was hooked by a very good interview – they were terrific, long interviews/biographies with the competitors, which made watching the competition rivetting. I think I cried every night watching it – fantastic television. And although they showed it every night I loved the clip of Matt Cowdrey sinking back under the water after winning his event.