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Anyone been watching this? It's like a paralympics for injured ex-servicemen. It's quite humbling to see them making the most of life despite horrific injuries.

 

Wheelchair rugby tomorrow looks like it's going to be good. :thumbs:

 

 

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Amazing people ! I was watching one-armed archery , (and the chap had no legs to boot), then a guy with no legs who runs 200 metres in the time I can run 50 !

 

Giants, every one of them.

 

With spirit like that, it's no wonder the Taliban were scared 5hitless !

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Amazing people ! I was watching one-armed archery , (and the chap had no legs to boot), then a guy with no legs who runs 200 metres in the time I can run 50 !

 

Giants, every one of them.

 

With spirit like that, it's no wonder the Taliban were scared 5hitless !

It really winds my up when people disrespect the paralympics etc, as those people are far more stronger in mind than most of us supposedly able bodied people. They are a special breed of people who want to win and will not let anything get in their way. The fact that they cannot compete with able bodied people is neither here nor there. They push them selves to their limit and that is all you can ask of an athlete, able bodied or not.

 

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Amazing people ! I was watching one-armed archery , (and the chap had no legs to boot), then a guy with no legs who runs 200 metres in the time I can run 50 !

 

Giants, every one of them.

 

With spirit like that, it's no wonder the Taliban were scared 5hitless !

It really winds my up when people disrespect the paralympics etc, as those people are far more stronger in mind than most of us supposedly able bodied people. They are a special breed of people who want to win and will not let anything get in their way. The fact that they cannot compete with able bodied people is neither here nor there. They push them selves to their limit and that is all you can ask of an athlete, able bodied or not.

 

TC

 

Have you seen the advert for the Games ? The one with the soldier doing the pull-ups.........he's got no legs and says "I've been ambushed, shot at and blown up...................but never defeated."

 

Courage and dignity beyond words.

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Amazing people ! I was watching one-armed archery , (and the chap had no legs to boot), then a guy with no legs who runs 200 metres in the time I can run 50 !

 

Giants, every one of them.

 

With spirit like that, it's no wonder the Taliban were scared 5hitless !

It really winds my up when people disrespect the paralympics etc, as those people are far more stronger in mind than most of us supposedly able bodied people. They are a special breed of people who want to win and will not let anything get in their way. The fact that they cannot compete with able bodied people is neither here nor there. They push them selves to their limit and that is all you can ask of an athlete, able bodied or not.

 

TC

 

Have you seen the advert for the Games ? The one with the soldier doing the pull-ups.........he's got no legs and says "I've been ambushed, shot at and blown up...................but never defeated."

 

Courage and dignity beyond words.

 

:thumbs: I never really feel comfortable watching stuff like this but that's just me, but as above there very Brave people , who partners or mom's+dad's would be very proud of them ,deff courageous dignified people . :yes:

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