I know I said I’d stop blogging about Olympic matters, but this is disability related. Team Gb have won an impressive haul of medals at the Special Olympics Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. They have picked up thirteen medals, including six golds. The Special Olympics movement is the third sibling in the Olympic Family and at least on paper it is equal with the other two: the Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. It is for elite athletes with cognitive rather than physical disabilities, although there is some cross-over.

This is great news, but I have to ask, if these games are on a par with the Olympics and the Paralympics, why isn’t this story headline news? Last summer every time team gb won a gold it topped the news bulletin. This story is not even at the front page of the beeb’s sport page! Do people with cognitive impairments matter less? Do they not deserve the same fanfare? Indeed, before this morning, I didn’t realise these games wee happening – why wasn’t it’s opening ceremony (assuming it had one) on TV? Where were the fireworks? This strikes me as very unfair, and indeed very disrespectful to athletes who no doubt work just as hard as any other.