Robin's Paralympics debut

We're just back from our first (of four) trips to the London 2012 Paralympics, where we'd managed to snag some tickets for the morning athletics session. We saw some great sport, including wheelchair races...

And an amazing race from GBR's Richard Whitehead, where he stormed to gold in the 200m despite trailing coming out of the bend...

Here he is getting his medal. Rapturous reaction from a very partisan crowd. Saying that, though, the crowd basically cheered anyone very loudly, whether it was a Brit storming to gold, the Finnish guy smashing the wheelchair 100m record, or the fellow from Djbouti who took more than 10 minutes to finish his 1500m heat (several laps behind the others) but was absolutely roared around the track.

And then afterwards we wandered around the Olympic Park (which was considerably busier than I'd ever seen it) and took some silly photos on a volunteer's chair and with Paralympic mascot Mandeville in the 2012 Superstore...

Next up it's back to the Stadium for athletics on Wednesday night....