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Great Britian

Gone are the days of the great empiring
Ravens wings now clipped at the tower
England lives on sense of entitlements
A great national pride is now destroyed 
There will be days of reminiscences sadly

Britianish is now devoid of any character
Respect is no longer politically correct
It ancient rich history is now squandered
The bulldog fighting spirit forever tamed
Independence is sought like prodigal son
A nation no longer being united kingdom
Never again to bathe in past glories in GB

Idle Olympics

There should be an idle Olympics,
one where you don't cycle or run,
and instead of diving, there's synchronised skiving
where teams of  four get nothing done.
A training camp for doing little
would certainly pick up my vote,
full of amateur loafers sprawled out on the sofas
not caring about where's the remote.
Gold medals for staring at ceilings
that have needed repainting for years,
a silver for shirking, a bronze for not working
with an audience too idle to cheer.
No sports fitness coaches to nag you,
or physios to massage your joints,
starting gun's in the drawer
should you need it- what for?
As we all shrug, and say 'what's the point?'
I'll put my name down for team GB,
her indoors says 'you've nothing to prove,
you're already a winner' as she makes my dinner
and I can't be bothered to move.

Thanks For Reading

Thanks for reading my posts
It means you care about how I feel

Thanks for just checking my posts
It means you care if I am alive

Thanks for reading on "GB"/a ghost reader
It mean you care, but you're reserved

Thanks for ignoring my posts
It means you have a lot at hand

Thanks because you are reading this
It means you care to know how I feel about you

Black Protest In Gb

American protests for American problems from American law

As a white man, as I am, can’t help but notice, a tiny little flaw. 

It is not a black issue but an American one 
And fact is I stand with you, hoping change is to come

But I don’t live under American law,
or with American mentality, 
where white superior and the brutality 

Recognising American ways are not universal, 
as in Britain ways I’ve not seen at all. 

Brits protesting seems to be copycat
caused by pride but not fact, 
Ignorant to differences in attitude
and justice levels not skewed 

Those American events have an ill taste 
but that’s the flavour America will place 
it’s about their law being replaced 
and not the universal black race

Gregg Warburton

Gregg is greatly revered by his younger brother, 
For his basketball shooting, skill and dexterity, 
He was born Nov. 1996 in Leigh in Lancashire, 
And is a 2.0 player with much junior activity. 

In 2010 at Lord Taverners Nat. Junior Champs, 
He was the most improved Under 15 player, 
And at the GB Junior Summer Camp, amps, 
He was also the most greatly improved player.

He became a part of the England North team, 
In 2012, and they won Sainsbury’s School gold, 
And at the Under 22 European Champs mean, 
He helped to collect the bronze with his hold. 

In Japan at the Kitakyushu Cup, Junior Men’s, 
2014, his basketball team won the silver medal, 
And in Rio they won the bronze, had gold pens:
Gregg enjoys playing drums for his twaddle.

Ade Orogbemi

Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club BSR Amiab Albacete is a date. 

He lives partly in London, joined the Bullets,
And he’s travelled with the sport worldwide, 
German, Italian, Israeli and South Korean sets, 
Sunshine is his normality to love and abide. 

In 2003 at the Europeans in Sassari in Italy, 
Ade and his basketball team won the bronze, 
And in 2005 at more Europeans, Paris’s sway, 
The GB squad came second with silver cons. 

Then in 2007 at the World Champs, Germany, 
A silver was wrought, and in Beijing in 2008,
TeamGB won a bronze to the podium occupy, 
And in 2011 a gold fell, Isreali Euro freight. 

2013 and TeamGB won the Euros, Frankfurt, 
2015 they won another Euro gold, Worcester,  
So in 2016 at Rio Ade contributed to support, 
His team to add a bronze to this large cluster. 

Ade was jailed by Liverpool Crown Court,
For claiming over £33000 of state benefits:
Housing, council tax benefit, income support, 
In 2009 he spent six months with jail slits.

George Peasgood

George suffered a traumatic left ankle injury, 
When he was only two and a half years old, 
But many a complex reconstructive surgery,
Meant that he could achieve his ambitions. 

His parents are both competitive Ironmen, 
And his brother represented Great Britain, 
In both the triathlon and duathlon, no swim, 
Also mum has run ten London marathons. 

One of his aims in competing in Rio grand, 
Was to inspire the crowd and mass public, 
To “go out and do anything they want to do,” 
Because drive is inbuilt thru his childhood. 

He did his first triathlon in 2009, and at 17, 
Won a bronze in 2013 at the London Worlds,
And in Rio, he finished seventh in his event, 
PT4, proving a true sportsman for team GB.

David Hill

David was told by his parents when a child, 
That he “could do anything [he] wanted to, 
no matter [his] ability.” They lived near sea, 
So they taught him to swim as a small kid. 

He loved it, and his first Para discipline, 
Was swimming, so in the backstroke 100m,
He reached the final in Athens 2004, in S9,
And won many medals at the Worlds, Euros. 

He then joined the GB para-triathlon squad,  
In 2013 and became known in this event, 
‘Cos he raced in almost every international, 
And his clocked up fast speeds and times. 

In 2016, the Lisbon ETU Triathlon Euros, 
David finished in 01:03:47 in class PT4;
In the Strathclyde ITU World Paratriathlon, 
David raced a time of 01:03:14, hot stuff. 

In the Besançon ITU World Paratriathlon, 
He made 59.35, and in the GBR Nationals, 
He raced in 01:02:43. In Rio he was tenth, 
With a time of 01:08:38, 1 hour, 8 minutes.

Born without a lower left arm, he works,
As a joiner, and his most favourite movie, 
Is Finding Nemo ‘cos of the swimming. 
His favourite film actor is Robin Williams.

Paul Karabardak

Paul suffered a stroke at the young age of ten, 
He was born 3rd October 1985 in Swansea,
He had been a keen footballer, it was his den, 
So was introduced to table tennis for his tee. 

At the age of sixteen he was selected for GB, 
For the Paralympic team which goes everywhere, 
And immediately won team bronze, dexterity, 
At the European Championships, he had dare. 

He took part in the Beijing and London Paras, 
But was tots disappointed at his performance, 
But in 2013 Paul collected very many medals, 
In the Hungary, Slovenia and Slovak dance.  

So in the land of Italy at the European Champs, 
Paul picked up a bronze with mate Will Bayley, 
Won the US Open in San Diego with clamps, 
So that in 2014’s China Worlds, a bronze relay. 

Vejle in Denmark, 2015, and Paul won silver, 
At the Euro Champs in the team competition, 
And he also won in the singles a bronze feather, 
‘Cos his opponent had home crowd adulation. 

At the Lignano Master Open in Italy in 2016,
He proudly won team silver and singles bronze, 
Which selected him for Rio but he was beaten, 
In the group matches. Born with energy, eons.

Ryan Cockbill

When Ryan had just finished his GCSE’s, 
And was having fun at a friend’s party, 
He belly flopped into a child’s paddle pool, 
Broke his back, so he’s paralysed partly. 

Rehab included para-shooting, many guns, 
And Mandeville showed him sports galore, 
And in time he found he loved to compete, 
So he joined team GB shooting to shore. 

His Paralympic debut was London, 2012, 
Where he was the British Torch Bearer,
And he made Rio, he comes from Aldridge, 
Born on 17 June 1990, an internet tare.

David Leavy

David is Northern Ireland’s very first representative, 
In a Cerebral Palsy 7-a-side Paralympic footy team;
He was so impressed by London 2012 assertive, 
That he asked his managers about the GB team. 

Just graduated from Queens University, Belfast, 
In Computing and Information Tech, he’s a ‘90s child, 
He captained the Northern Ireland football cast, 
At the 2015 Worlds in St Georges Park - he’s a mild. 

“Football had a big influence on my life growing up
…It helped me overcome [the] difficulties I [had] 
growing up with a disability. It taught me to [rise up], 
not to let my disability get in the way [of what I had]”.

Ryan Kay

Ryan has Cerebral Palsy and is a City goalkeeper, 
When he was six years old played for Park Farm, 
He recently played in the England CP team, keeper, 
In The CP World Champs. International Federation. 

He played in Rio where the GB team settled for fifth, 
Says: “The position of goalkeeper is often overlooked
…however the role is…important. High [focus, mass] 
are vital if you want to be a keeper.” You'll be hooked.

Martin Hickman

Martin works at a KFC in Glasgow, where he’s from, 
And so plays football on their team. Internationally, 
He’s played in three major tournaments, not a con, 
Because he’s on the Scotland team unequivocally. 

He played at school but was discriminated against, 
So picked up disability football to make a go of it, 
Therapy improved his agility greatly, he did persist, 
‘Cos on the pitch he lacks the control others pit. 

He was playing on a disabled placement scheme, 
When a coach duly noticed him, asking for interest, 
So he enlisted in the GB and in the Scotland team, 
Making his Paralympian debut at Rio: 5th to chest.

Louis Rolfe

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.

Jon-Allan Butterworth

Whilst Jon-Allan was out Iraq to warfare ban, 
In 2007 he sustained an injury, rocket attack, 
So that doctors had to amputate his left arm, 
But after rehab he continued the sport’s crack. 

He’d been a weapons technician in the RAF, 
At Basra airbase, and before that Afghanistan, 
But he was now on a programme so to quaff, 
Any idea that he wasn’t good at cycling’s pun. 

He took the limelight at the London games, 
When he won three silvers for para-cycling:
One for the C5 Individual Pursuit, sole aims,
One for the mixed team sprint very cunning,

And another silver for the C4-5 1km Time Trial!
Then 2016, and he won gold for the mixed team, 
And also a silver medal for the C5 kilo Time Trial
In Montichiari, and so made the Rio GB Team.

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