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.
Beijing will be the fourth Summer Paralympic Games he has covered for the Telegraph. When the International Paralympic Committee awarded The Daily Telegraph its Print Media Coverage Award of the Athens Games in 2004, Davies - known as 'Nana' for his apparent likeness to Nana Mouskouri - says it was a moment of great satisfaction, having worked with a passion to help develop and gain wider coverage in the mainstream media for Paralympic, and disability sport.
'Nana' has also received four other writing awards in the last decade, two of which were for reporting on disability sport. He was also nominated for 'Sports Story of The Year' in 2005 by the Sports Journalists' Association for his reporting on the plight of the football legend Ferenc Puskas, who was suffering from a form of Alzheimer's Disease. Nana admits that he has two pet hates - losing, and having his hair cut.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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