Paralympic DVD

I will forever be a part of history... thanks to the Paralympic Channel 4 DVD!

It was an obvious present to give me last Christmas (so much so I got it twice!), but little did I know I would appear on it. Full coverage of the opening ceremony is on the DVD including that moment when I ate an apple (orange).

As long as DVDs remain in circulation, forever will this be shown and mocked!!

And the winner is.....

Without doubt, the greatest sporting year in history, easily surpassing the winning feeling of 1966 no doubt (although I'd have loved to have witnessed that for sure).

As the dust begins to settle after an epic parade, Andy Murray goes and wins the US Open in the early hours of this morning, fresh from his Olympic gold and silver medals... clear to see that London 2012 has kicked him on another level.

Absolutely no point in having Sports Personality of the Year... how do you pick from Andy Murray, Mo Farrar, Jess Ennis, Bradley Wiggins, David Weir, Rory McIlroy, Sarah Storey, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendelton.... ahhh the list goes on!!

If 2012 hasn't put a permanent smile on your face and inspired your generation, clearly there is no hope for you!! Leave now..

Day 9: Is it really all over??

Still pumped from the closing ceremony, I made my way to Stratford one last time...

The station was a ghost town, really eerie after a month of hustle and bustle. Even the athletes village was a shadow of it's former glory... the US team had left at 4am and most of South America were in the skies making their way home.

It was time to pack away the IPC memorabilia. Finally I had a chance to hold Beijing and Sydney medals that I had been admiring for weeks... we were also joined by two double gold medallists from the Irish team as they completed their last blogs for Samsung. Both extremely down to earth and shared their accounts with me about winning.

Two Irish double gold winners

I was fortunate to have seen Jason Smyth's gold on Friday evening and I replayed my anthem video of him to him, which he appreciated.


And then that was it... time to leave it all behind and return to work. Said my goodbyes to the IPC team and begrudgingly checked out. Shame to have missed the parade, but hardly able to complain with what I had been allowed to witness.

As my mum said... getting back to reality will be rather tricky!!