Giles Long MBE

Paralympic Gold Medallist | Inventor of LEXI, which explains every class in every sport at the Paralympics

[Dr Christopher Brown @Dr_ChrisBrown]

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🚨📢ICYMI: Paralympics content for you to enjoy:

LEXI classification ft. @gileslong (podcast): https://t.co/0owEJ1wz1j

Tech in Parasport ft. Dr Bryce Dyer (podcast): https://t.co/w1RKpxAHw6

#Paralympics #Paralympic2024 #Paris2024

[Giles Long MBE @gileslong]

@sazzymills Ace to meet you too, Sarah, had great fun!

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Here is a 90 second video summary of climate change since 1850. Notice a pattern?

Time to treat #climatechange like the #climateemergency it is. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #renewableenergy #GreenNewDeal

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

I got older, and the world got warmer. I swam at Nigard Glacier 15 years ago. Just look at it today.

[Northampton Swimming Club 🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♂️ @NSC_Swim]

Congratulations @maisiee26 Commonwealth Games Champion SB6 100m Breaststroke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏊🏻‍♀️🥇 @birminghamcg22 #CommonwealthGames #CommonwealthGames

[Giles Long MBE @gileslong]

Heartbroken to hear that Channel 4 is to be privatised.

Without its unflinching, risk-taking, eclectic form, the Paralympics would not have ever been given the chance to show the world what it could be.

What future, ignored corners of culture will remain unearthed?

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

They asked for ‘a debate’; 90% of submissions in that debate said it was a bad idea. But still they go ahead. Why do they want to make the UK’s great TV industry worse? Why? It makes no business, economic or even patriotic sense. https://t.co/aokG0yZPlm

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you find science boring, you're learning it from a wrong teacher.

[Klitschko @Klitschko]

STOP the war, now! #Ukraine

[Giles Long MBE @gileslong]

@BBC6Music Aren’t there 4?

Bleach
Nevermind
Incesticide
In Utero

[Ricardo Fort @SportByFort]

That looks like the right thing to do; said every father and no mother.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

For days I’ve heard ‘it’s difficult - the Fossil Fuel/Energy/Big Ag/Farming/Fishing (& the rest) lobbying groups are SO powerful’. Yeah , so , strip them of that power - throw them out . They shouldn’t be at @COP26 . Lobbying begets corruption & that corruption is killing us here

[Hope4Harmonie @Hope4Harmonie]

Harmonie was super excited to show off her new blades today!

She chose the colour blue for her lights so that it would match her school uniform!

#newlegs

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Wait for it....each bar of colour represents a month of global temperature - 140 years of data from 1880 to 2020 - notice a pattern?

We're in a #ClimateEmergency. Let's make 2021 the year we #ActOnClimate.

#Climate #Energy #NoPlanetB via @ScottDuncanWX

[Swim England @Swim_England]

Almost 2⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ swimming pools could be lost forever by the end of the decade unless the Government and local authorities ‘act now’ to replace ageing facilities.

That’s the worrying finding from our A Decade of Decline: The Future of Swimming Pools in England report ⬇️

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

"None of the world's major economies - including the entire G20 - have a climate plan that meets their obligations under the 2015 Paris Agreement"

This is of course excluding huge parts of our emissions and aspect of equity. Not even then are we on track.
https://t.co/SEReWJKLPZ

[Emma Raducanu @EmmaRaducanu]

We are taking her HOMEEE❤️🇬🇧🏆

[Bob Ballard @bobballardsport]

I still can’t believe how loud that was @gileslong and I can barely be heard. Goosebumps moment.