If you missed BBC’s Olympic Dreams on Sunday night you can now watch each of the regional episodes on the BBC iPlayer. We might be biased but our recommendation is the East Midlands edition featuring Kinetic Three Sixty athlete Richard Whitehead. Just click the link below to watch him talk about his background, training and ambitions for 2012. We even set the link up to start at the beginning of Richard’s segment! Watch BBC East...

In an article written for the Daily Telegraph, Ade Adepitan singled Richard Whitehead out as the athlete to watch at the 2012 Paralympic Games. It’s been quite a year for Richard which started in February at the IPC World Athletics Championships where he produced one of the performances of the competition to win the T42 200m. Still the reigning amputee marathon and half marathon world record holder, Richard added to his list of world...

Oliver Hynd is the latest athlete to enhance his preparations for the London 2012 Paralympic Games by starting his strength and conditioning training with Tim Stevenson and Kinetic Three Sixty. With Channel 4 being the leading media voice in Paralympic Sports they met with Ollie to find out more about this up and coming swimmer aiming for success in London. What’s the highlight of your career so far? “It’d have to be winning...

Charlotte Henshaw and Ollie Hynd made a promising start to their 2012 Paralympic medal quest at the DSE National Short Course Championships over the weekend of 26/27 November 2011. This is the first major competition of the Paralympic Season, and swimmers were looking to see how their preparations are going prior to the Paralympic Trials in March which are now less than a 100 days away. Ollie Hynd took an impressive 2 Gold, 2 silver and 1...

This film taken during the filming of BP’s latest TV commercial gives a great insight to Richard Whitehead. Since the IPC’s decision not to let Richard compete in the marathon at London 2012 this talented athlete has switched his attention to the sprint events. After being selected to represent Great Britain at the IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, Richard destroyed the competition to win the T42...

Pete Crawforth took 2nd place in ‘Sleepless in the Saddle’, a 24 hour mountain bike race on 6th and 7th August. In what was a great physical performance Pete also showed plenty of guts and determination. Congratulations Pete, a fantastic result and well deserved. Pete’s second place result in the solo men’s competition is his highest result in a 24 hour race. Pete has been striving for a result like this which he...