Louis has a sports centre named after him,
At his local Cambridge Regional college;
He’s a C2 para-cyclist, has Cerebral Palsy,
Plus hydrocephalus, was fired by 2012.
So after these very successful Paras 2012,
Louis was tested by British cycling coaches,
Who found talent, skill and hidden strength,
Such that he became part of the GB team.
He made the 2012 Newport Internationals,
Where he won for the individuals, bronze,
Collected a team silver and he progressed,
Onto the Apeldoorn Worlds in Holland.
There he placed fifth in the team sprint,
Came seventh in the long 1km time trial,
And in the individual pursuit came tenth,
To make the Montichiari World Champs.
One gold for the team sprint, one bronze,
For the C1-C5 C2 time trial, and so in Rio
He excelled, taking the team sprint gold,
And the bronze in the C2 individual pursuit.
Crystal was born with a similar condition,
To Sarah Storey who’s the Dame of Para,
And was so impressed by Beijing in 2008,
That she responded to the ad for athletes.
She was already doing a sports degree,
Exeter University, Exercise and Sports,
And so after she was accepted for trials,
She joined, 2011, the para-cycling team.
At Roskilde in Denmark, 2011, her debut,
She took bronze medal in the road race,
And came ninth place in the C5 time trial,
To make her place on para-cycling’s plane.
She participated in the 2012 Paralympics,
And in Apeldoorn, the central Netherlands,
In the 500m time trial C5 she won the silver,
In the scratch race C4-5 she won bronze.
So Rio came at the right time for Crystal,
When she was also taking a sports Masters,
At Loughborough University, ‘cos she won,
A silver, individual, and a bronze, road race.
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