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Martin Sinclair Hoping to Inspire the Next Generation with Paralympic Glory

13 December 2011
Martin Sinclair – brother of Swansea FC star Scott Sinclair – is a key member of Great Britain’s 7-a-side cerebral palsy football team, who are ambitiously setting their sights on Paralympic glory at the London 2012 Games.   His brother Scott’s former Bristol Rovers manager, Ian Holloway, e...
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Martine Wright Hoping a Sensational Circle Ends at 2012 Paralympics

9 November 2011
“I sort of feel like I deserve to be here,” muses Martine Wright, before pausing, steeling herself and starting again. “I definitely feel like I’m meant to be here.”   The conviction in her voice is arresting and a slightly fragile self-assurance makes her story riveting even in the mouth...
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David Roberts Aims to Over Haul Tanni Grey-Thompson en Route to Paralympic Greatness

31 August 2011
With a year to go until the London Paralympics gets underway, Welsh swimmer David Roberts is more excited about the prospect than most. He is currently an eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist, having competed at three games.   One more gold medal will put Roberts above Welsh compatriot Tanni Grey-...
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Will Bayley: Welcoming the Bright Lights of London

23 August 2011
Adversity, a concept banded around liberally in association with Paralympians, is no stranger to Will Bayley. Rather unusually though, his most vigorous tussle with it was nothing to do with his congenital disability and came long before his life of international sport. At the age of seven, he was d...
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Simon Munn: From Tragedy to Triumph

24 February 2011
Simon Munn may not be a household name, but the 5-time Paralympian has an inspirational story to tell. After losing his left leg in a tragic accident, the Milton Keynes resident dedicated his life to becoming the best in his chosen field of wheelchair basketball. Now, at 43-years-old, Munn is one of...
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Glamour and Grit: the Inspirational Liz Johnson

23 February 2011
A tumultuous blend of triumph and tragedy has permeated the life and career of Liz Johnson. Born with cerebral palsy, the Bath-based swimmer reached the pinnacle of sporting achievement when she claimed gold at the Beijing Paralympics in 2008. Accompanying her gold medal was a peek at the world of c...
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Aggar Continues to Blow Competition out of the Water

14 January 2011
As a second-row forward for Warwick University first XV, a member of the Saracens youth development squad and a representative for the county of Hertfordshire in water polo, Tom Aggar was considering trials for the Royal Marines. However, in 2005 his visions of athletic merit were blurred by a devas...
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Multi-Skilled Josie Ready to Scale New Heights

12 January 2011
On a Bank Holiday Monday in May, 2003, 17-year-old Josie Stephens was involved in a horrific, head-on car crash that saw her boyfriend, who was driving, killed, and turned her from a promising, able-bodied horse rider, eventer and show jumper, into a tetraplegic, paralysed from her mid-chest downwar...
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Inspirational Stephens Still Has Unfinished Business

5 January 2011
On his ninth birthday Nathan Stephens recklessly attempted to jump aboard a freight train slowly rattling through his neighbourhood in South Wales. A solitary moment of carelessness could not of been less forgiving, with the consequences of his actions changing the rest of his life. “I remem...
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Danielle Brown Looks Forward to Home Paralympics

28 November 2010
It’s unlikely anyone has ever used the term ‘half-hearted’ when referring to Great Britain archer Danielle Brown. Her list of achievements is impressive – already a world champion, Paralympic gold medallist and university law graduate (with a first for good measure) she ca...
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