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Martine Wright

July 2017

  • Martine Wright

    Martine Wright: ‘They are penalising people who have really got a disability’

    Survivor of 7/7 who became a Paralympian tells Anna Kessel about the power of disability sport and the impact of austerity

December 2012

  • Dizzee Rascal, rap artist 2012 portraits of the year

    2012 in review
    Best portraits of 2012 – in pictures

  • Shortcuts
    BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012: the best moments

August 2012

  • Martine Wright celebrates a point with Victoria Widdup in their Paralympics match against Ukraine

    Paralympic athlete and 7/7 survivor: 'I've just got to keep going'

    Martine Wright, who lost both legs in 2005 London bombings, makes debut in British women's sitting volleyball team
  • Martine Wright

    Martine Wright: from 7 July victim to Paralympic athlete

    A woman who lost both her legs in the 2005 London bombings describes how she has come to fulfil her Olympic dream
  • Pierre Mainville (right), Canadian wheelchair fencer

    Shortcuts
    The 2012 Paralympics: 10 stars to watch

    From China's blind goalball hero Chen Liangliang to all-conquering runner Oscar Pistorius, our guide to the outstanding athletes appearing at the London Paralympics

March 2011

  • Martine Wright

    Martine Wright: 7/7, survival – and a whole new life of opportunities

  • Jude Law

    TEDxObserver
    Inspired to act: for freedom, survival, endurance and simply to walk again

July 2006

  • 'I keep asking myself, when does it become normal? Is this normal now?'

    Martine Wright lost her legs in the Aldgate bombing. She describes how life has changed, and her struggle to win compensation.

April 2006

  • July 7 bomb victim says payout is inadequate

    Martine Wright lost both her legs in the London bombings, and so far the government has given her £55,000 for each one. But Ms Wright says it was not just her body but her whole life that was shattered when she sat only a few feet away from suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer as he detonated the explosives in his backpack on July 7 last year.

September 2005

  • Bombing victim's first agonising steps to recovery

  • A life torn apart by terror: one woman's story of survival

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