Our 4⃣ nominees for June's Athletes' Athlete of the Month award:
🚣♀️ Lauren Henry
🥋 Lily Kingsley
🛶 @LauraSugar1
🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️ Henry Urand
More ➡️ https://t.co/n3T25RleHS
BEAA members can vote for their winner via our latest athlete email!
@BlandShel@MintridgeFDN@IngoldsbyAcad@DRETsport Ahh thank you so much for having me, I had a lovely day! Such a wonderful school with amazing staff 😊 they clearly love their sport, thanks to you!
ICYMI...@BBCEssex Sport Extra featured...
🥇@LauraSugar1 on European glory
⚽️@ColU_Women
😁Croquet in #Southend
🥊The UK's new lightweight champion
🔊Listen: https://t.co/YWryr6Cc70
Last week, @LauraSugar1 was doing what she does best...getting young people moving!
Alongside @DRETsport , the double Paralympic Champion made her way to @lodgeparkacad to work with a group of primary schools as they all prepare their athletics for the exciting #DRETSummerCup.
Paralympic champions Laura Sugar and Charlotte Henshaw claimed golds on a day which saw four Brits win medals at ICF World Cup 2 in Poznan 🙌
Read the round-up here: https://t.co/rJbn8pPHEp
Please share .. if anyone has heard from Sam .. last seen in Las Vegas on the 16th .. please let the police know .. now classed as a missing person.
Come on @samruddock where are you mate? Please be safe.
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Important to note that i’m definitely not talking about the games themselves. Im talking about the national governing bodies in charge of the british teams and athletes, it is already combined in other countries and from what I’ve seen, it seems to have had amazing results
Is it finally about time @TeamGB and @ParalympicsGB think about merging??
Can only imagine improving equality would be easier?
Seems to work for countries like @TeamUSA
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@Fortnums Yes ‘Team GB’ only refers to Olympians and we as Paralympians are supposed to correct when they call us Team Gb and say ‘actually we’re not’. The point about Thursdays reception was that we were all invited together, however with regards to uniform and after events it’s separated
It’s sad that we as Paralympians feel the need to speak out about equality so often, and great @shawzac for speaking out, especially as his team mate who he trains with every day was treated differently, I in fact ‘gatecrashed’ the event with a few of my teammates and….. 1/2
Hi @Fortnums 👋 as you’re aware, the Olympic and Paralympic medalists were invited to Buckingham Palace yesterday. It would be nice to understand why you hosted an after party for the Olympic medalists but made the decision not to invite the Paralympic medalists? Why? 😅😅
Spoke personally to the CEO Tom Ashton who was very nice and apologetic about the situation, and I’m not sure @Fortnums were aware we were all together at the reception. This goes down to a bigger issue of the huge gap between Team GB and Paralympics GB (yes they are separate)..
@robinl03@shawzac@Fortnums Hello, I went also, and can confirm we were not invited, we ‘gatecrashed’ and were let in. I did have a long conversation with the head of Fortnums who apologised and wasn’t aware of all the separations that go on between para and Olympic team
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