Jon Snow
Gotcha boccia!
Jess Hunter, at 20, is by any test, severely disabled. She is also remarkably pretty. I’m not sure that it is even politically correct to say that, writes Jon Snow.
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A legacy to stand on? ‘Dis-abling’ attitudes
Have attitudes changed towards disability as a result of the Paralympic Games? Presenter and wheelchair basketball player Jordan Jarrett-Bryan takes a look, in the latest in our week-long special.
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Disabled dancer’s pain at airline wheelchair damage
No Fly Britain: A wheelchair dancer who performed in the London 2012 cultural celebrations tells Channel 4 News how his career was threatened by airline damage to his chair.
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Festival of flames closes Paralympic Games
An audience of 7.7 million watched the Paralympic Games closing ceremony on Channel 4, bringing to an end a spectacular summer of sport at London 2012.
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How many Paralympians can you name?
One aim of London 2012 was to make more Paralympians household names. Has it worked? Channel 4 News takes to the Olympic Park in a highly unscientific experiment.
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Paralympic archive: improved facilities (1988)
In 1988 ITN reported from the Sobel Centre in north London – at the time one of the few sports centres in the UK offering facilities for people with disabilities.
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Paralympic Games: a shared history of tragedy
“Our country is known by genocide, now we have a chance to go there and Rwanda be known by the good players, not by genocide, by sport.”
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Royal Mail launches set of Paralympics stamps
In addition to stamps commemorating Olympic and Paralympic gold medal winners at this summers Games, the Royal Mail is to issue four stamps commemorating Paralympic sports.
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A fabulous Games – but what is the legacy?
A major element of London’s bid to host the Games was a commitment to a lasting legacy. Channel 4 News looks at what we will have to help us remember what Jacques Rogge called a “fabulous” Olympics.
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London 2012: was this the women’s Olympics?
After boxing and taekwondo were contested by women for the first time and women’s football pulled in record crowds, Channel 4 News asks if London 2012 was a turning point for women’s sport.
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Empty seats continue to blight Olympic events
French President Francois Hollande criticises Locog for giving away “too many corporate seats” as spectators tell Channel 4 News that rows of empty seats remain at some events.
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Spare Olympic tickets to go back on sale
Locog is now monitoring the number of tickets used after an abundance of empty seats at the weekend, and will put returned tickets on sale the night before events.
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Empty Games seats prompt ticket probe
An urgent investigation is launched after Olympic fans express disappointment at the sight of rows of empty seats at most of the venues on the first day of the London 2012 Games.
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Where do Team GB’s athletes come from?
Exclusive research reveals that more Team GB athletes are born in the UK’s most affluent and healthy areas. So can where you live determine sporting success? Channel 4 News investigates.
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Women at the Olympics – inspiring change or token gestures?
Brunei, Saudi Arabia and Qatar bring women to the Olympics for the first time, but are these real steps towards equality or just token gestures?
