A few of you were disappointed with the lack of Boccia coverage in Attitude TV’s “Meet the Paralympians” programme, so here’s a full 4-minute clip from Attitude, all about Boccia!

Well, the bloggers over at TVNZ’s Olympic site are kicking up a stink about the disabled bathroom signage through the National Stadium in Beijing. As you can see in the picture on the left, rather than your traditional white-on-blue ‘wheelchair’ sign, the Chinese have adapted it somewhat and made it a funky black-on-red logo, in what I believe is a really fresh spin on a rather tired image! But no – TVNZ’s Michael Burgess says: Just what are they trying

If you’re here to check up on the 2008 NZ Boccia Nationals, please click here for the Boccia LiveBlog!

I came across this 2-minute YouTube clip when googling ‘walking is overrated’, and found it so compelling I thought I’d share it with you all. It was added to YouTube on the 29th of June 2007, so theoretically, this guy coined the phrase way before I did! But anyway, I digress, check out the video below and bask in this guy’s wicked spin on life. Literally.

Keen on Boccia but can’t make it to the nationals? Maybe you’ve got a friend or family member playing down at nationals in Christchurch and want to keep up with how they’re going? Well fear not, as I’m going to be covering the 2008 NZ Boccia Nationals LIVE from Christchurch, so make sure you bookmark the Boccia LiveBlog page, which I’ll be updating regularly over the coming weekend with pictures and results as they come to hand. I’m looking forward

Oh boy. As if China hadn’t shown enough reason why they shouldn’t be hosting the 2008 Paralympics, now they release their absurdly patronising “Guide to disabled people”, as part of their Olympic Volunteers Handbook. The guide ‘warns’ that disabled people can be unsocial, stubborn, defensive, and have a strong sense of inferiority, along with sharing the remarkable insight that physically disabled people are, in fact, “often” mentally healthy. Mind-blowing stuff. In fact it’s enough to make Australian swimming great Dawn

Well, whaddya know. It seems the Gods, or at least the IAAF, are smiling upon South African double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, overturning his ban on competing in the Beijing Olympics. So this means that Oscar, complete with carbon fibre blades for feet, has the opportunity to qualify for the Olympics – note, not the Paras – in Beijing this year. Is this a good thing, do you think? Or is it opening up a potentially massive can of worms? Your thoughts,

To be honest, I’m not much of a running fan and I don’t really know how many of you are either, but I am a fan of “post-event food and beverage”, and as such the following notice appealed to me! Check the skinny below, but in a nutshell, the lovely people over at the Halberg Trust have teamed up with the sponsorship might of Westpac Bank to provide free registration to disabled people and their friends/family in this year’s Auckland

To be honest, I’ve never been to China, nor do I have any real desire to do so. However, for many of our nation’s Paralympians, they’ll be heading over there in September, in the valiant quest for sporting glory! The question is, how truly accessible is Beijing? Will our boys find themselves stranded at bus stops and taxi stands with no way to get to the competition venues? I’ve heard a thing or two about Chinese attitudes towards disabled people,

As mentioned a couple of days ago, Snowplanet are officially launching their adaptive snowsports programme tomorrow, with the admirable aim of increasing the participation of disabled people in the many varieties of snowsports available. Stuff.co.nz reports: The programme, an effort among Snowplanet, Disabled Snowsports New Zealand and local disability service organisations, gives disabled people the chance to experience snowsports at an easily accessible facility all year. “Snowsports are one of the few sports that people with all degrees of disability