Kare Adenegan

Kare Adenegan

I love the city of Coventry ‘cos it’s disability friendly, 
Since it houses Great Britain’s national disabled college, 
As Hereward resides there with insight, policies bendy, 
Towards its students who mainstream don’t admonish. 

Kare who was only 15 at Rio comes from Coventry, 
She schools at Bablake and has Cerebral Palsy true, 
And, being excluded from the school sports gentry, 
After the London Paras decided that sports she’d do.  

So she joined one of the many wheelchair academies, 
Which vibrate in Coventry and soon attended meets, 
Where she could compete with national dungarees,
As a T34 sprinter to cheer the crowds off their seats. 

Grand Prix final in London 2015, and she pushed hard, 
Revolved those rubber tyres faster than ever she could, 
And, unbelievably, she beat flat Hannah Crockroft bard, 
To become the first in seven years to lower that hood. 

Then in Doha 2015 IPC Worlds she steamed victorious,
When she won bronze in both the 400 and in the 800m,
And then in Rio 2016 she won one silver medal glorious, 
Also two bronze, stealing the sprints for the UK by gaiters. 

Indeed, both Hurricane Hannah and Kare Adenegan, 
Come from Coventry because Hannah’s moved there
To study media at Coventry University. Respect began, 
In the war recovery effort: for the disabled they’d care.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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