Paralympics 2012

[baratron]

Does anyone I know want to go to the Paralympics? I am not a "sports person", but I've always liked the Olympics, and I think it would be awesome to go. Since becoming more disabled I've been attracted to the Paralympics, for waffly reasons that could sound quite disablist if I tried to express them without lots of thought - so I'm not going to try right now. Anyway, the point is that I want to go and support disabled athletes. Ideally, our disabled athletes (*waves British flag*), but I would personally be happy to see anything at all. Except swimming events, because I fear being allergic to whatever they use to keep the water fresh, and an afternoon of wheezing doesn't sound like fun.

Tickets are on sale until 6pm on 26th September (but really, I'd want to have applied well before that!).

Here is ticket information for disabled people. Apparently they have wheelchair spaces, and not many steps seats, and seats for enhanced audio for visually impaired people, and seats with a clear view of a video screen for deaf people, but I don't know to what extent they can accommodate a mixed group of crips. It looks like they can do wheelchair user + deaf friend, perhaps - but not wheelchair user + deaf friend + blind friend. Fortunately, most of the people I know have either hearing issues or mobility issues, so that's okay.

Anyway - who's interested? Is anyone interested, or will I have to drag Richard along even though he isn't interested?!

Comments

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

I must confess to wanting to see the Wheelchair rugby too.

Right now this is my season for desperately saving enough money to get me through the winter (When my normal line of work is thin on the ground), but I'm hoping I may be able to come by a seat nearer the date if they don't all go. (Slight fear that if anything is going to sell out it will be the big men in armoured chairs going "CRASH!"

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I believe that wheelchair rugby is one of the sports most likely to sell out. Apparently at the Paralympics it will be played in mixed teams (http://www.london2012.com/wheelchair-rugby), and oddly there are only 8 of them (out of all of the countries that are taking part). Mind you, looking at all the sports it seems that the Paralympics events other than Athletics are highly cut down, which is sad.

I don't mind applying for some wheelchair rugby tickets and seeing what I get? I must owe you three or four birthday presents by now (not even sure I managed a card this year - Richard doesn't remember anyone's birthday, and if I'm not well enough to do them, they don't get done)!