Olympics

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Curly45 Aug 2012 11:41am, 17 Aug 2012 920 posts	0 Curly45 There is some wheelchair racing Speedy - we checked out the session - its mostly visually impared long stuff, CP categories for field and some wheelchair 400m and 100m I think. No amputees though (which is a shame as that might have been Pistorius) that I could see. This should help: news.bbc.co.uk "A brief classification guide is as follows: prefixing F for field athletes or T for track athletes. F or T 11-13 are visually impaired, F or T 20 are learning difficulty, F or T 31-38 are cerebral palsy, F or T 41- 46 amputee and les autre, T 51- 54 wheelchair track athletes and F51- 58 wheelchair field athletes." Then we used this: london2012.com To cross reference. Just select your day and time
Toks Aug 2012 11:50am, 17 Aug 2012 28,560 posts	0 Toks Rd I was the Pendleton documentary too and felt so much for her, she is a very emotional person
Rory Rhubarb Aug 2012 12:48pm, 17 Aug 2012 83 posts	0 Rory Rhubarb Speedy - No wonders people have suggested the system hasn't been brilliant
SpeedyMel Aug 2012 1:44pm, 17 Aug 2012 2,294 posts	0 SpeedyMel Thanks Curly, we have loads to see! 7 finals, including the womens wheelchair 5k final, 3 other wheelchair events and even better, 4 cerebral palsy events. Very happy with that. What distance does Oscar do? There is a mens amputee 200m semi final.
LorraineS Aug 2012 1:53pm, 17 Aug 2012 32,148 posts	0 LorraineS Oscar often does 100m, 200m and 400m when racing in para/disabled races
Curly45 Aug 2012 1:58pm, 17 Aug 2012 921 posts	0 Curly45 Great Lorraine - I thought he only did 400m so thats good to know I know Speedy - I wont know where to look - it was hard enough when only 3 sports were going on before!
LorraineS Aug 2012 3:17pm, 17 Aug 2012 32,149 posts	0 LorraineS he tends to do only do 400m when competing in able-bodied as he struggles to get off the blocks at a competitive speed for the shorter sprints we saw him running 200m at the Scottish champs a year or two ago and the club athletes were well ahead coming off the blocks but he was able to pass most of them as he got up to speed
AdminLiz Aug 2012 5:51pm, 22 Aug 2012 1,312 posts	0 AdminLiz Another 100,000 Olympic park tickets just been released, £5 a ticket
Ultra Kanga Kazzaaaaah!! Aug 2012 7:06pm, 22 Aug 2012 15,034 posts	0 Ultra Kanga Kazzaaaaah!! Just got one
Marts Aug 2012 11:00pm, 22 Aug 2012 3,747 posts	0 Marts Oscar will defend his 100m, 200m, 400m titles in T44 category