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

[kshandra]

Were I not so many time zones away, I would love to go.

[nitoda]

Sorry, Summer type sports have never appealed to me. I used to enjoy watching sled hockey on the ice at the Arena, but that's as close as I've come to enjoying watching anything remotely like the Paralympics. Hope you find someone who will enjoy going along with you. I think Vicky was also interested ...

[taimatsu]

I'm interested, but not so interested that I have done anything about going myself. If I did liaise with you over tickets, we wouldn't have any guarantee of getting the same events, would we? I haven't even looked into how this works!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I'm on the wrong continent, but what I've seen of the Paralympics is actually much cooler than what I've seen of the Olympics.

[skibbley.livejournal.com]

I've seen some wheelchair rugby on TV and it looks interesting to see close up. Will take a look at the other sports on offer too when I get chance.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I want to go, but I've already applied for my own tickets (5-a-side football semi-finals and medal matches, plus a few alternative dates for Olympic Park day passes.)