It would seem that my entry yesterday was oddly portentous. Last night, it was revealed that the Paralympics in Rio are in grave danger: funds for it are being slashed and the money is being used to fix problems at the olympics. Ticket sales are pitiful. To hear that made me very sad indeed: after Beijing and London, where the Paralympics were every bit the equal of the olympics, it would seem that the Brazilians are treating the second event as an afterthought – something they think nobody is interested in, far less important than the main feature. To see that being made so apparent on the news last night made me very angry indeed. After the triumph of london, after that wonderful celebration of disability sport where ‘we’ at last took centre stage, to see the Paralympics treated this way really pisses me off. Fair enough, I understand that the political and economic situation in Brazil is rather dire right now, but nonetheless the paralympics deserves as much respect as the olympics, and by using it as a source of cash for what they clearly as the only event that counts, the Brazilians are not giving it that respect.