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In the club throw, she could finish Jets Jerseyszyhaa911 only sixth. "I used to get such an adrenaline rush from riding that I thought it would be impossible to find that in another sport," Pearson has said. Safe to say she found something a lot better at the Olympic Stadium, with 80,000 fans roaring her on. "I can't emphasise enough how beneficial sport has been. It has given me back my independence, which you think you're never going to get when you're lying in hospital."
Pearson is about as severely disabledAuthentic Jets Jerseys as any competitor who has been into the stadium this week. At the other end of the spectrum is another remarkable athlete, Ireland's Jason Smyth. He competes in the T13 category for athletes with impaired vision but not total blindness. But then as he says, "everybody has got their own issues in life. Whatever they may be it is about making the most of what you can do." Never mind the hype and excitement surrounding the likes of Jonnie Peacock and Oscar Pistorius (who strolled to 48.31sec in his 400m heat, which made him the fastest qualifier by over two seconds).
Smyth is by far and away the fastest athlete atMark Sanchez Jerseys these Games. He won the 200m in 21.05sec, a world record to go with the one he set in the 100m final. Having done the sprint double, he struck a shy little Lightning Bolt pose as he stood on the podium. Smyth, born in Derry, Northern Ireland, could have competed for Great Britain if it had not been for a foolish official."I could have gone for Britain just as easy as I went for Ireland," Smyth said.
"The Sports Council in Ireland came on and wantedTim Tebow Jerseys to support me and help me and did whatever they could, whereas whoever was in charge of GB at the time was like 'whatever, whatever'." It is not quite up there alongside the man at Decca who turned down the Beatles but years later it still seems a shocking error.The team could have done with him on Friday. The wheelchair racer Mickey Bushell, who won gold in the T53 100m, could finish only fourth in the 200m.
Shelly Woods, silver medallist in Beijing, was sixth Darrelle Revis Jerseysin the T54 1500m, behind the USA's Tatyana McFadden, who won her third gold of the Games.Richard Whitehead, the T42 200m champion, was seventh in the 100m. It is simply too short a race to allow him to reach his top speed. Woods, on the other hand, has just had a disappointing Paralympics. She has one chance to win a medal left, in the marathon."I'll take the results I had this year," she said of a season which also included a runner-up finish at the Australian Open.