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Gareth Davies

Gareth Davies

Gareth A Davies has been a sports journalist for The Daily Telegraph since 1993, reporting on a range of sports around the world at major events, and appears regularly on Radio 5 Live and TalkSport. His portfolio for the Telegraph currently includes correspondent on boxing, polo, junior sport, and Paralympic sport. He also pens sports interviews and features. More

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THE BT PARALYMPIC WORLD CUP
Posted: Sat 23rd May 09 10:25

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 ROYAL FLAVOUR
Posted: Thu 26th Feb 09 14:43

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...

HOLLYWOOD TO MAKE FILM OF PISTORIUS'S LIFE PLAYED BY TOM HANKS, BUT BLADRUNNER WANTS JOHNNY DEPP TO WIN THE 'OSCAR'
Posted: Tue 27th Jan 09 09:47

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...

DANIEL BIDDLE
Posted: Tue 18th Nov 08 09:39

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...

WHY REBECCA CHIN DESERVES JUSTICE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE
Posted: Tue 23rd Sep 08 13:20

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...