Paralympics; Sports round -up.BRITISH teenager Jonnie Peacock upstaged the world's most famous blade runner in the biggest race of the Paralympics - and then claimed he should have gone faster. The 19-year-old from Cambridge left Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius (born November 22, 1986) is a South African Paralympic runner. Known as the "Blade Runner" and "the fastest man on no legs", Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres events and runs with the aid of carbon fibre transtibial trailing in his wake as he claimed the 100 metres title on a night of triple athletics gold for Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. .Great Britain surpassed their 103-medal target as Hannah Cockroft won gold in the T34 200m, ParalympicsGB''s 104th medal at London. David Weir then won a tense T54 800m -his third gold of the Games -and earlier cyclist Sarah Storey''s victory in the cycling road race gave her an 11th Paralympic gold medal, equalling the tally of Teesside's Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson. |
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