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Hi everyone, I'm Ricky. This is Newsround. Welcome back to the | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Olympic Park. Tonight, the 14th Paralympic Games will get started | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
in that beautiful stadium behind me. After the success of Team GB, all | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
our attention turns to our Paralympic hopefuls, who are aiming | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
to finish near the top of the leaderboard. In this programme we | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
will guide you through the next 11 days of sport. So let's begin. | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
It's another golden route to the line for British cycling! He is | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
absolutely flying! A wonderful moment for David Weir, his second | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
gold medal. I am so happy! I didn't believe | :01:08. | :01:18. | |
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This is set to be the biggest Paralympics ever - a magnificent | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
end to an incredible summer of sport. Over two-and-a-half million | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
people have tickets to watch the events in the venues, with plenty | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
more watching at home. Lucky people! So what can they expect to | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
see? We have done with those five- coloured rings for now. East London | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
is geared up for the Paralympics. Over 4,000 athletes are here and | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
ready and with nearly twice the number of medals to play for, than | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
at the Olympics this is the world's biggest sporting event right now. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
But why so many more medals? To make things fair, the 20 Paralympic | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
sports are divided into different competitions using a special | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
classification system. Depending on their level of | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
disability, athletes are given a number that determines which events | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
they they compete in and who they'll be up against. All that | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
means that over the next 12 days you will see nearly 30 finals of | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
the 100 metres, some competing with prosthetic limbs, some without. | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
Tandem, tri-cycle events on the track and road and swimers with | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
different conditions in the same race and a few sports you didn't | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
see at the Olympics like the brutal wheelchair rugby. Four years ago | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Britain's Paralympians came away from Beijing with 102 medals and | :02:58. | :03:08. | |
they're hoping to go at least one better at London 2012. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
We'll bring you the big stories from the Games here on Newsround, | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
of course, but the events themselves won't be shown on the | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
BBC because Channel 4 is where you'll see all the action. You'll | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
be fronting Channel 4's morning programme throughout the Games. You | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
must sob excited to be -- you must be so excited to be part of the | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Olympics. I am so excited especially you showing all those | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
athletes taking part in Beijing it makes you realise it's so close, | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
starting tomorrow. They've changed the loga. Looking good. The people | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
are pouring into the stadium there already and they're ready for a | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
really big night at the opening ceremony. | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Tell us about your story, you lost the use of your legs when you were | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
younger. What happened to you and is it important that the | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Paralympics are taking place in London? It's so important. When I | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
was a teenager I used to be a competitive runner, I used to do | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
long distance and cross-country. Overnight I got meningitis which is | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
a disease, and I spent a year in hospital and while I was there I | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
lost both my legs below the knees, similar to Johnnie Peacock, a Great | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Britain sprinter. And Oscar Pistorius, everyone is talking | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
about him. He hrot both his legs and is using special equipment to | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
make sure he can run. You have used the same kind of thing, tell us | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
about it and did what it feel like to wear those? It was so cool, | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
really it was. As somebody who used to be a runner I just really wanted | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
to get back in running again. put the blades on. It just felt | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
brilliant. Cow feel like you had the potential to run but they're | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
really hard work. It's not easy. I really respect Oscar Pistorius as a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
result of trying them, definitely. Ellie Simmonds is again the poster | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
girl of the Paralympics. She's about 17 now, I think, she was 14 | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
when she got her two golds in Beijing. All this pressure, we | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
always talk about pressure but really must be a lot on her | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
shoulders. It's a lot of pressure on Ellie because everybody knows | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
her now. When she went to Beijing people just just knew she was young | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
starting out, she has stiff competition from a young American | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
this year. She's going to really try and if Ellie is on top form I | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
think she can get more gold medals. Best of luck with your Channel 4 | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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morning show, I will be watching. So Britain's Paralympians are | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
hoping for over 100 medals at these Games. But have you ever wondered | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
how these top athletes started out? One man who knows all about | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
competing at the top level is former GB wheelchair basketball | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
star - Ade Adepitan. Here's his story of how he got to the top. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
kind of see myself as the kid who never gave up. Until the age of | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
three I lived in Nigeria and I contracted polio at six months. It | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
meant I was unable to walk without the use of calipers, which were | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
like iron rods that the doctors put on my leg and connected to my shoe | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
and on my first day of school I remember walking into the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
playground and seeing a group of kids playing football. The guys | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
looked at me and they thought there is no way he could play sport and | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
in the final play time they allowed me to play football. They told me | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
to go in goal. I imagined to jump to one side and save what was going | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
to be a goal and I went from this crazy looking, weird kind of kid, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
to this sporting hero in one afternoon, just because of that | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
save. That moment changed my life. I saw some guys from the Great | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
Britain wheelchair basketball team training and they were amazing. | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
They totally changed my ideas, my perceptions. They were doing | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
wheelies, spinning around, they had massive muscles and that moment is | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
when I looked at them and I thought, this is what I want to do. This is | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
where I want to be. When I finally got selected for the team it was | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
just one of the best moments of my life. Yes! My dream started when I | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
was probably about nine years old. I didn't make it into the Great | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
Britain wheelchair basketball team until I was 27. | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
It's special. It was the best moment. It doesn't matter whether | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
you have a disability, if you believe in yourself anything is | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
possible. Cheers, Ade. Over on the Newsround | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
website, you've been telling us about how excited you are about the | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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Paralympics. Loads of have you been Now, the Paralympic flame has been | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
making its way around London before heading to that stadium behind me | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
for this evening's opening ceremony. But they're miles behind schedule - | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
nearly two-and-a-half hours now - and organisers think they may need | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
to use a back-up flame to light the cauldron tonight. On its way around | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
London the flame's visited the penguins at London Zoo, to Lord's | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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cricket ground, and also made a visit to a Hindu temple. They | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
prepare as hard. They dedicate as much time and sacrifice as much as | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
any other athlete. So just a couple of hours until we get to see | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
another fantastic opening ceremony. We are being spoilt this year. The | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Queen will be here along with Prince William and his wife, Kate. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
It's going to be a fantastic spectacle. We hear the theme is | :08:52. | :08:55. |