Disability Horizons

Listen Many have said that the success of the London 2012 Olympic Games has been largely thanks to the enthusiasm and tireless work of the Games Makers. So we spoke to one of them (wheelchair user, Ross Hovey) about his experiences. I am 33 years old, from Cambridgeshire and have Spinal Muscular Atrophy type II [...]

Listen During the Olympic Games, Disability Horizons Co-editors, Srin Madipalli and Martyn Sibley, promised to test out public transport in London to the max by visiting the Olympic Park using only buses and trains. When London was awarded the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics back in 2005, the organisers promised that the event would be open [...]

Listen During the Olympic Games, Disability Horizons Co-editors, Martyn Sibley and Srin Madipalli, promised to test out public transport in London to the max by visiting the Olympic Park using only buses and trains. Check out how Martyn got on when invited by Disability Horizons reader @Matt_Lester to see the Men’s Wrestling: By Martyn Sibley [...]

Listen Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has made history by being the first paralympian to compete in the Olympic Games 2012. Everybody is completely gripped with the excitement of this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, and here at Disability Horizons we are no different. Our co-editors, Srin and Martyn, have been to various Olympic events in [...]

Listen It is Saturday 28th July 2012. The “day after the night before” when my home city of London put on a spectacular show to officially open the extraordinary global carnival that are the Olympic Games. As a born and bred Londoner who grew up a stone’s throw from the Olympic Stadium, I watched Danny [...]