Paralympian or dead? Lessons from Paris for your church

Kay Morgan-Gurr  |  Comment
Date posted:  3 Sep 2024
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Paralympian or dead? Lessons from Paris for your church

GB cycling at the Paralympics 2024

The 2024 Paralympics has been compulsive viewing for many - myself included. It hasn’t been without controversy in various areas and some of those issues continue to rumble on.

Those of us who use wheelchairs have experienced wheelchair envy as we’ve seen not just the sports wheelchairs, but the everyday wheelchairs that some of the athletes have - that probably cost the same as a family car.

The wheelchair rugby has been great - but I wish they’d kept the original name; Murder Ball, because it describes it so well!

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