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Paralympics 2012

August 2023

  • Martine Wright, a survivor of the 7/7 attacks in London

    How we survive
    I was the most injured female survivor of 7/7 – and I wouldn’t change a thing about my life

    Martine Wright almost died in the London bombings, but since then, she says, she has experienced great luck. She describes the journey to parenthood, a pilot’s licence and the Paralympics

June 2019

  • Frances Ryan

    Today in Focus
    Crippled by the state: the impact of austerity on disabled people

    Frances Ryan discusses the impact that austerity has had on disabled people and Helen Davidson discusses the Hong Kong protests

September 2017

  • West Ham United football ground view of stalls and pitch

    Charities are still waiting for the Lottery millions raided to build West Ham's new stadium

    Rachel Cain
    The government has reneged on a pledge to refund £425m to charities after the Olympics, instead leasing the stadium to West Ham for a mere £2.5m a year

August 2017

  • A man watches a television screen showing President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a news programme at a train station in Seoul, South Korea

    The nuclear folly of Donald Trump’s fire and fury

    Letters: Readers respond to the escalating brinkmanship and rhetoric between the US president and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

August 2016

  • Freya Levy began playing wheelchair basketball in 2010 and now plays for England. Photographed in Great Yarmouth, August 2016. She hopes to represent Team GB at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020

    Potential Paralympic star forced to pull out due to cuts in disability support

  • Nigel Murray of Great Britain throws a Boccia ball during a match against Ireland.

    GB boccia players hope to raise sport’s profile at Paralympics

  • Team GB’s David Weir celebrates winning the men’s T54 800m final at the 2012 Paralympics: ‘In 2012 he was our Usain Bolt.’

    We cannot let the Paralympics take a step backwards at Rio

    Anne Wafula Strike
  • Owen Gibson

    As the Premier League kicks off, British sport faces a new threat: can it cope with Brexit?

    Owen Gibson

July 2016

  • Greg Rutherford as a superhero flying over London

    Ten to watch: meet Team GB's sporting superheroes

  • The cyclist Sarah Storey won four gold medals at the 2012 Paralympics in a Team GB medal haul of 120.

    Team GB medal haul will cover more sports in Rio, says Paralympic chief

March 2016

  • George Osborne visiting a primary school, a day after delivering his budget

    Budget 2016: a sugar-coated assault on disabled people and local democracy

    Letters: What is centrist in a democracy about a chancellor making national social and educational policy, on the basis of economic criteria?

February 2016

  • Paralympics

    Paralympic legacy has failed to widen access to exercise, say campaigners

    Survey suggests more than 80% of people with a disability feel prejudice when participating in leisure and sport activities

March 2015

  • Silent Witness

    Media blog
    Why we need more of Silent Witness’s Clarissa to help disability portrayal

    Disabled people are fed up of always being portrayed by the media as heroes, scroungers, or brave

July 2014

  • London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony

    Theatre blog
    Disability arts left hanging by a thread

  • South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius sits in the courtroom during day 37 of his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, on 3 July 2014.

    Guardian Africa network
    Oscar Pistorius murder trial: what's disability got to do with it?

December 2013

  • Cranfield, artificial limbs feature

    Meet the woman who turns artificial limbs into works of art

  • Greenslade
    Andy Murray named as sportsman of 2013 by sports journalists

August 2013

  • Paralympians celebrate

    Disabled people shouldn't have to wear a Paralympic tracksuit

    Will Norman
    Will Norman: Attending functions as a Paralympian, I'm treated with the utmost respect. Out shopping, it's a very different story
  • Jonnie Peacock winning race

    Paralympics legacy fails to shift attitudes to disabled people

    British Paralympians' success in 2012 brought celebrity status but has done little for the daily life of the disability community
  • Ian Birrell

    A year on from the Paralympics, people with disabilities still face prejudice and abuse

    Ian Birrell
    Ian Birrell: Attitudes to disability are so deep-rooted that the euphoria over the 2012 heroes could not spark a sea change
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