An honest warts & all sightloss blog. I'm living with Macular Dystrophy. To track my progression and hopefully help others. What will happen next?…
Author: One Vision
An honest, warts & all sightloss blog about living with a rare genetic eye condition, Macular Dystrophy, Stargardt's Disease. To track how this progresses in myself. Hopefully help others & bring awareness. Let's see what happens next...
PICTURE DESCRIPTION with the stadium in the background and a union jack behind the 4 Paralympians in the team. 2 men, Jonnie and Zac, with arms around each other smiling. Blonde woman, Ali, slightly crouching down smiling. Blonde woman Sammi sat in her racing wheelchair smiling whilst holding the flag
Zac Shaw whom I’ve wrote about many times, has done our country and our Stargardt’s Disease community proud at the Paralympics in Paris.
Showing everyone what you CAN do!
He has won
An individual Bronze medal in the T12 Mens 100m race.
The T12 category is for athletes with visual impairment. Athletes in this category will generally have some residual sight, the ability to recognise the shape of a hand at a distance of 2 metres and the ability to perceive clearly will be no more than 2/60. T12 athletes can run with guides also.
A Silver medal in the 4 x 100m mixed relay team which includes Jonnie Peacock, Ali Smith and Sammi Kinghorn.
They also achieved a European record of 46.01 seconds.
PICTURE DESCRIPTION 2 pairs of glasses framed like a Polaroid photograph. First pair is red black with Tortoishell at the bottom. Second pair a multicoloured paint splatter effect.
2 new pairs of cats eye glasses and I’ve gone a bit different to my usual standard tortoishell.
I’ve gone bolder and now have 4 pairs of glasses to add to my collection, so I can chop and change until I need another prescription like I usually do at my next appointment.
I tried something different. I bought them online choosing the frames first and then entering my last prescription into the form they have. They are really good and alot cheaper than the high Street. The styles are more unusual and these came safely all the way from America.
My glasses are very important to me as they correct some blur and help me to read and look at pictures better than I can normally. It’s virtually impossible now to make words or images out, without them.
They don’t help the blind spot, floaters or missing parts of words and images. They will help until they don’t anymore.
Today the Paralympic Games start in Paris with the opening ceremony later on today at 8pm local time. 7pm in the UK.
The ceremony is going to be abit different as this isn’t situated in the stadium as such, but by the River Seine, Place de la Concorde and the lower Champs Élysées.
For the occasion, 50,000 spectators will be able to enjoy the show (15,000 free of charge (first come, first served) and another 35,000 whom purchased their tickets.
Team GB has 215 athletes that hail from Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Paralympians will be competing in 19 of the 22 sports on the programme, with cycling, canoeing and rowing being the largest delegations.
Athletes are grouped together according to their classification in each event. Some compete in wheelchairs and some with prostheses, while those who are vision impaired can receive support from a sighted guide. There are also events for athletes of short stature and for those with an intellectual impairment.
The sports GB are competing in are:-
Archery, Badminton, Boccia, Canoeing, Cycling, Equestrian, Football 5 a side, Goalball, Judo, Athletics, Powerlifting, Swimming, Rowing, Shooting, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Taekwando, Triathlon, Basketball, Fencing, Rugby and Tennis.
PICTURE DESCRIPTION In the background the Olympic rings. Blue yellow black green and red. A cartoon woman with blonde hair and yellow top with arms raised smiling holding the Olympic torch in the forefront. Text reads Good Luck Team GB Paris 2024
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