Wheelz and the biggest ramps he can find
Can a wheelchair really jump a 50ft ramp just like a BMX? It’s a question few would have bothered pondering a few months ago. Well, yes it can.
Can a wheelchair really jump a 50ft ramp just like a BMX? It’s a question few would have bothered pondering a few months ago. Well, yes it can.
Extreme skier Josh Dueck is the man behind the first ever wheelchair ski backflip. And his film The Freedom Chair is changing the face of the sport.
Keme Nzerem goes to meet a group of disabled mountain-bikers, and the new bike that’s allowed them to do the sport they love.
It is painful even to write it – one million young people unemployed. Jon Snow blogs on the battle to address and retrieve what some have casually tagged the ‘lost generation’.
The last night of London 2012 is upon us – the end of the most amazing summer of sport many people have ever seen in this country. The closing ceremony of the Paralympics begins at 8.30pm and once again I will tell you what I can, having seen the rehearsal, but won’t spoil the surprise.…
Just a week after a committee of MPs said that too many civil servants, MPs and celebrities get honours for simply doing their jobs, some MPs have received honours for no longer doing their job.
One of the most amazing group experiences ever – Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who commentated on the Paralympics opening ceremony for Channel 4, gives his verdict.
The Paralympics, etched so far in its truly remarkable opening, have launched me upon another journey that I never knew I had to take – maybe I never even knew that it was there to be taken.