Leaking lavatories and the Olympic / Paralympic challenge
How will MPs respond to the feel-good-factor sweeping Britain following the Olympics and Paralympic Games? Jon Snow writes on the challenge facing parliamentarians.
Police have arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly stealing two Olympic bronze medals from a Mayfair nightclub during the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The purple outfits are being folded away, the giant sponge fingers consigned to storage. But what was it like for the 70,000 volunteers who made the London 2012 experience quite so special?
Paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius said his rival’s legs in the T44 200m were “unbelievably long” but did Alan Oliveira’s blades really make the difference? FactCheck does the running.
How will MPs respond to the feel-good-factor sweeping Britain following the Olympics and Paralympic Games? Jon Snow writes on the challenge facing parliamentarians.
In 1979 ITN went to Crystal Palace to meet blind sprinter Graham Salmon, who was pioneering a revolutionary bleeper that ensured he did not stray out of his running track.
Tube bosses tell Channel 4 News they will try to keep and even expand a network of accessible ramps for disabled passengers which were only expected to remain for the Paralympic and Olympic Games.
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.
The decision of the University of Illinois to pull out of staging the 1984 Paralympics meant Stoke Mandeville had just four months to prepare for the arrival of 1,500 athletes from around the world.
A delay in the torch relay means it could fail to reach the Olympic stadium in time for the Paralympic opening ceremony. But the ceremony will begin as scheduled.
The Channel 4 News guide to the London 2012 Paralympic Games – how, where and who to watch, ahead of Wednesday’s opening ceremony.
The popularity of the London Marathon, first run in 1981, meant disabled sportspeople were soon lobbying for inclusion in the event, and in 1983 the capital staged the first-ever Wheelchair Marathon.
As English footballers returned from an unofficial tour of apartheid South Africa, disabled protesters were demonstrating against the arrival of the South African team for the Stoke Mandeville Games.
In March 1981, ITN went to meet paraplegics Elizabeth and Peter Fordred as they prepared to sail the world – in a boat they had built themselves in landlocked Zimbabwe.
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.
As the rules on outdoor space schools have to provide change, five-time Olympic Champion Sir Steve Redgrave tells Channel 4 News “we need as much space as possible within school areas”.