If you’re an animal lover, sport fanatic or just somebody looking for a little fresh air and exercise then horse riding might be an ideal activity for you. And if you’re less able it’s actually something quite easy to get involved in. The Riding for the Disabled Association is a national charity which helps to…
The London 2012 Paralympic Games kicked off exactly one year ago today. We were treated to twelve days of unparalleled Paralympic sport as 4,237 athletes from 164 countries competed for 503 medals, with 251 world records being broken in the process. 2.7 million spectators turned up to watch in person with another 39 million watching…
Today marks one year since the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympics. We were all witnesses to an extraordinary twelve days that perhaps changed the way people think about disabled sport forever. It was a groundbreaking games and we see today as an anniversary well worth celebrating. Tomorrow we’ll deal with the actual legacy of the…
This weekend, one year on from the London 2012 Olympics, the stars of both the Olympics and the Paralympics are returning to the Olympic Stadium for the Anniversary Games – a three day athletics event. After two days of Diamond League Athletics – ‘headlined’ by Mo Farah, (hopefully) Jessica Ennis-Hill and Usain Bolt – the…
Yesterday we profiled how it has become easier for less able people to drive a car. Today we’re going to go one step further and tell you about Aerobility – the charity dedicated to teaching disabled people how to fly a plane. If space is the final frontier, then the skies are surely the penultimate…
It’s all over. The entire country’s annual, two week long obsession with tennis came to a glorious end on Sunday and our 77 year wait for a British Wimbledon Men’s Champion finally finished with it. What a crazy day it must have been for Andy Murray (by all accounts, soon to be Sir Andy Murray) becoming such…
What a weekend of sport with Andy Murray winning the Men’s Wimbledon Trophy and the British Lions slaughtering Australia. Plus Team Sky & Chris Froome retaining the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. Simply Brilliant!! Shame this overshadowed the Wimbledon Wheelchair tennis but congrats to: Men’s Wheelchair Doubles, Stéphane Houdet (Fr) and Shingo Kunieda (Japan). Women’s Wheelchair…
Well I didn’t do much last week as my mind was wondering what I should say about ‘Why Modern London & Shoreditch Should Be Accessible’. It sounds like a ‘no brainer’, like why should Gay people be treated as equals. This was the subject of my presentation at Digital Shoreditch, ‘a celebration of creativity’. I came…
We’ve started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sports. In each blog we feature a different less able athlete writing about their own sport. This time we’re featuring Sledge Hockey player Matt Coleman. Matt is part of the GB Sledge Hockey team aiming to…