Gareth Davies

The BT Paralympic World Cup is underway here in Manchester, and already, new potential British stars are emerging - in all sports. Simon Jackson, the former multiple Paralympic gold medallist as a judo player has converted to cycling. No doubt the lad from Rochdale will make a major success of his...

A column with royal flavour. Good to hear that Oscar Pistorius is out of hospital in South Africa after being airlifted following a boating accident late in February. The doctors said he was lucky to escape without serious head injuries.

He had some facial surgery, but ‘the fastest man on no...

Oscar Pistorius, "the fastest man with no legs", who has become an ambassador for the Paralympic World Cup which takes place this year in Manchester on May 18-24 has revealed that he would not want his legs back. They were amputated at the knee when he was a baby, as he was born without the fibulae...

In my time covering Paralympic sport, I have never come across such a story, quite so close to home. This is the story of Daniel Biddle, destined to become a torchbearer for the Paralympic movement. When I sat down with him at a try-out session in East London two months ago, I did not know what to...

The XIII Paralympic Games which ended in Beijing this week offered inspirational, and very often, awe-inspiring sporting competition from athletes who are at the forefront of their own physicality.

Yet the exponential growth of the paralympic movement reached a watershed in China, with...