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Big Ben trains hard in the gym,
To prepare for his athletics games,
And, training in Coventry, hymn,
There’s a local interest in games.
“I’ve been able to train 2 to 3 times
a day, 6 days a week, I get the miles
in on the track and do the big [mines],
weights, in the gym. [I’m all smiles].
I’m making sure my body’s in the best
way possible leading into…competition
whether it’s the [Euro Champ’s chest],
the Paralympics, or just [in meet action].”
Ben wheelchair races in class T34,
And in 2015 broke the British record,
For the 100, 200, 400 and 800m door,
Born with CP, suffocated by his cord.
In his teens he took up swimming,
But found he had a chlorine allergy,
So he went into wheelchair racing,
After a British Athletics talent day.
The Euros in Swansea took place,
In 2014, and Ben collected a bronze,
For the 800m which he did deftly ace,
In a time of 1 min 56 + 11 milliseconds.
Next came another Euro, Grosseto,
Two years later. Ben scored thrice,
In the 100, 400 and 800m gusto,
To win bronzes for his thrown dice.
He did participate in the Rio Games,
Saying: “Just being able to call
yourself a Paralympian and, [dames],
being able to be in the Village [tall]
and rub shoulders with some
of the best athletes - that is
something that drives me [on]
everyday.” Coventry’s top biz.
Sophie was born with Cerebral Palsy,
On the 23rd of January 1997, she’s 19,
And trains at Loughborough University,
But was born in Nottingham’s glean.
She’s won thirteen major titles, is top,
In sprinting and in runs middle distance,
So in the 100, 200 and 400 metres pop,
She beats most folks by persistence.
In France, Lyon, at the Worlds in T38,
Sophie ran the 100m to take the gold,
And in the 200m she took silver weight,
To begin her career with a sign foretold.
She was enthused by London’s Games,
She this entry into the athletics arena,
Stood her well for the European Games,
In Swansea: two silvers medals for her.
In 2015 Doha held the Worlds that year,
And for both the 100m and the relay, golds,
Then she put another silver in her bag, tier,
When she came second in the 200m folds.
Then in 2016 at the Europeans most dear,
In Grosseto, Sophie won two gold medals,
Plus one silver again for the 200 metre pier,
In which she excited the crowd with pedals.
Rio arrived and yet again for the 100 metres,
Sophie won the prize of gold, on the podium,
And also for the women’s relay 4x100 metres,
Her team took home the gold from the stadium.
On the approach up to Rio there were rules,
About what she ate and drank, no rubbish,
And Sophie Killer with sports nutritionist tools,
Gave Sophie a strict diet so she’d flourish.
Jordan was born with mild Cerebral Palsy,
But took part in the 2012 Paras at just 16,
Because he was born on 12th of October,
1996, and Rio was is second Paralympics.
“Even if you don’t like school, I would [def]
encourage everyone to take part [and] enjoy
sport, be it badminton, swimming, athletics
…ask others…don’t be shy, just go for it.”
Jordan made the London Paralympic finals,
But he remembers the Swansea Europeans
With great pride, because his birthplace is
Cardiff, even tho’ he trains at Loughborough.
In 2014 in Swansea he won a shining bronze,
For both his sprints - he runs in the T35 class.
In the 100 and 200 he did pride by speeding,
To the line by much strength, determination.
He says about sacrifices “I have a 300-mile
round trip from home in Cardiff to my training
camp at Loughborough twice a week, so
again, that takes some determination.” Fixity.
He feared he’d miss out on Rio’s Paralympics,
Because his groin hurt him so much, exercising,
Such that he thought he’d have to miss, bypass
The Euros in July in Italy, the entrance to Rio.
But a doctor at Nuffield Health’s Vale Hospital
Inserted a nylon mesh in Jordan’s week groin,
To reinforce it, but it is a partially dissolvable
Mesh so that he doesn’t feel it when running.
Jordan won two more bronzes in Grosseto,
In Italy in his skills, the 100 and 200 metres,
And so competed in Rio de Janeiro gallantly,
But sadly did not strike gold to top the charts.
Sammi was crushed in snow and ice,
Under the beam of a forklift truck,
Being driven by her dad on his farm,
Such that her back did break, no luck.
Her physio at Glasgow’s Southern,
Sent her to top Stoke Mandeville,
Because she showed interest in,
Sports and exercise’s cool bevel.
“I thought I’d be in a bed forever.
So, then…a wheelchair was amazing.
Sounds strange, but I was so happy.
Then to find [myself competing]
in sport in my wheelchair, [mega],
has just been incredible, [indelible],
Sport has helped me [lots], hugely,
Helped me to accept it really. [Able].”
Before the accident Sammi played,
Hockey, did gymnastics and ballet,
So disability sports just means that,
She can continue on with her way.
Sammi met Jo Butterfield, club throw,
Whilst in Stoke Mandeville, a click,
And the two of them have become,
The leading Scots athletes thick.
In Swansea at the 2014 Europeans,
Sammi returned with three golds,
One for the 100m, one for the 400m
And another for the 800 metre’s folds.
Then in 2015 in Doha, the Worlds,
She bagged a bronze this time,
And was a star at Rio de Janeiro -
She intends on marathoning fine.
We all went to Swansea
To see the University
We had a nice lunch by the sea
In a place called Langland Brasserie
And later that same afternoon
We got back to our hotel room
I settled down for a nice kip
While the girls enjoyed a poolside dip
I was having such a lovely sleep
Till sirens ripped me from the deep
Those intermittent bells so shrill
Another bloody fire drill
With bleary eyes and fuzzy brain
Got to my feet and took the strain
And feeling every aching joint
I headed to the meeting point
Not being such a sprightly fella
I filled up with a pint of Stella
For a trigger happy fire alarm
Can sap your strength and do you harm.
I took the lift back to our floor
Got to our room and locked the door,
And saw, through all these fun and games
That Notre Dame was up in flames
Hannah Crockroft has cerebral palsy from her birth,
And having CP myself, she’s kind of special to me,
Because CP is not derided anymore, much, as alien,
But is called brain damage, not your own currency.
She was born on the 30th July 1992, West Yorkshire,
In Halifax, and fought two cardiac arrests after birth,
The doctors said she’d never walk, talk, and function,
Or outlive her teens: but you just determine yourself.
She did lots of school sports and made the talent day,
By the BPA at that good old sports and tech university,
Loughborough, where she met Tanni Grey’s husband,
Dr Ian Thomson, who made her into racing authority.
She’s a wheelchair racer in the T34 class of sprints.
Her father, who she’s very close to and is a welder,
Built her first racing chair which was fast and neat:
He takes her out every morn on the Yorkshire felder.
At the Worlds 2011, in Christchurch in New Zealand,
Hannah won gold in both the 100 and the 200 metres,
And then, the Hurricane spry in 2012 London scored,
When she took gold in these two events again - litres!
She took gold at Lyon at the IPC Worlds, two, 2013,
Then in Swansea at the Euros she again took two,
And then 2015 at the Worlds in Doha she won three,
And now at Rio in the Paras she’s homed three due.
She breaks all the records with WRs, ERs and PRs,
Demolishing her personal best most times to achieve,
Ahead by 10 metres, 6, or even 4, she’s my stat hero,
And studies sports and media at university, to sleeve.
Rhoda Monihan
_________
I am extremely sad about the tragic accident which happened today in the cycling road race at Rio on a downhill stretch of the course. Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad, aged 48, died of a cardiac arrest which he suffered in the ambulance after sustaining a brain injury when he crashed. My thoughts and love are with his family and friends. He leaves behind a wife and a son.
Stef, born in New Zealand’s fine country,
Moved to Canada aged 4 with her parents,
Where she had a boating accident aged 9,
Which amputated her right foot for her life.
She’s married to fellow Paralympian fast,
Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos,
And they both train at Loughborough Uni,
Where there’s a plethora of sports facilities.
Stef graduated from good Queens University,
In Biochemistry with honours and at times,
Is a professional speaker, a fashion model,
And lay preacher of the gospel and the way.
Before the accident Stephanie played rugby,
But afterwards she could not do this because,
Her prosthetic was at risk of detaching itself,
Mid-game and injuring near placed players.
So she went into track and field athletics,
Practised until she became sick and tired,
Which saw her make the 2008 Paralympics,
In Beijing when she won gold for the sprint.
She graced the podium often at small meets,
In Manchester and in London. Christchurch
Saw her flourish when she won two bronzes:
One for the long jump and one for the 200m.
In Swansea at the European games in 2014,
Stef took home for the T44 long jump a gold,
And in the London Paras which introduced,
So many to disability sport, she won a silver.
In Rio she won another silver, on the mark
For TeamGB. She hasn’t always represented,
Britain because when she was much younger,
She competed for Canada’s rocky territory.
Stephen is fifty-four years of age,
And was involved in a car accident,
At the age of nineteen, new page,
‘Cos he couldn’t carpentry gent.
So he took up sports and athletics,
And found a wealth of facilities,
In Gravesham to his surprise, fix:
Others lift him into his activities.
He is a wheelchair racer, T51,
And played wheelchair rugby,
For 15 years, but in 2011, cun,
He changed to sprinting’s g.
Stephen was chosen, included,
In the 2012 London Paralympics,
Where he made the finals, duded,
To represent his country, semantics.
Just before the Games he said,
“You have got to be in the right
position and get the right [sled]
…which [to find can be a plight].”
He also talked about the dream:
“This is a dream for me to be here
and competing for [the UK mean].
I have been in the chair [30yrs near],
and it feels like it’s supposed to
happen for me. It feels great
to be in the red, white and blue”:
A man to be proud of, to state.
He competes in the 100 and 400m,
And in 2014 Swansea at the Euros,
He took the 100m bronze, bleaters,
To have the crown jumping in prose.
Then in 2016 in Grosseto, the Euros
Again, another 100m bronze medal,
Where Stephen flew the GB flag, hose,
For another great success to pedal.
He did make Rio but sadly didn’t hook,
Any medals, tho’ he trains hard,
In Dartford swimming pool, no crook,
Loving the physicality of the yard.
Jade is a wheelchair racer, distance events,
Competing in the 400m, 800m, 1500m T54,
Born with her femur missing she attended,
Ormesby School which is in Middlesbrough.
From there she enrolled in Prior Pursglove,
A college in Guisborough which took her,
Onto NE’s University of Teesside and Law,
Where she learns legal mechanisms, rules.
While Jade was at school on a sports day,
Tanni Grey-Thompson visited and spotted,
This talent bursting with energy and spirit,
And allowed her to try a racing wheelchair.
Ian Thompson, Tanni’s husband, on that day,
Was also present, and, being a good doctor,
And knowledgable about different chair types,
Was able to advise on posture and comfort.
Only a few weeks later, Tanni was teaching
Jade how to race, every day and in every way,
Such that Jade fought at sports meets to win,
The sprint and also long distances: stickability.
New Zealand and Christchurch, IPC Worlds,
Sprung Jade into the limelight, finished fifth,
At 200m, and she made the London Paras,
But failed to win a podium medal: 3 secs out.
In the Great North Run in the junior event,
Which was only 2k long, Jade won this jaunt,
In 4 mins 12. In 2013 she made the Worlds
In Lyon, coming fourth in the 400m, middle.
Then Swansea in 2014 and the Europeans,
And for the 800m Jade came 2nd, a silver,
In the 1500m she came 3rd with a bronze,
So her first internationals did sail her boat.
Same year, but at the Commonwealth’s,
Jade won the bronze in the 1500m chase,
To take her onto Rio bold, but there she,
Didn’t manage to procure a podium stop.
Paul was born with cerebral palsy,
Deprived of blood in the womb,
And his father, also called Paul,
Acted in Starwars, in the 1977 film.
He was born in 1990, 15 January,
And is a most consistent runner,
He must get fitness from his mum,
Who was a dancer, Royal Ballet.
He races in T36 middle distances,
And at the London Paralympics,
He won one silver and one bronze,
Owning the WR for 800m and 1500.
Then in 2013 at the Worlds, Lyon,
He took a gold and a silver swiftly,
In both the 800m and in the 400m,
Where his rivals did not glance.
In 2014 at the IPC Europeans,
Which were held in Swansea,
He collected silver and bronze,
This time in the 400 and 100m.
And in 2015, Doha at the Worlds,
Paul won gold in the 800 metres,
And took silver in the 400m charge.
As the co-captain of the GB team.