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From the Daily Telegraph p11, Thursday Dec 15th:
Wheelchair wife falls in Olympic rafting course
‘A pensioner had to be rescued after she fell into the 2012 Olympic white water rafting course in her wheelchair.
The 80-year-old woman and her husband had gone to look at the venue ane were on the towpath beside the course when the accident happened.
Firemen believe that as her husband read a sign, the brakes on her wheelchair failed and it careered into the water.’
Does that tell us anything we didn’t already know?
Wheelchair wife falls in Olympic rafting course
‘A pensioner had to be rescued after she fell into the 2012 Olympic white water rafting course in her wheelchair.
The 80-year-old woman and her husband had gone to look at the venue ane were on the towpath beside the course when the accident happened.
Firemen believe that as her husband read a sign, the brakes on her wheelchair failed and it careered into the water.’
Does that tell us anything we didn’t already know?
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Or to put it another way, incorrect facts not at the Olympic site, corrected quite quickly in the media. Shame that we are perpetuating bad reporting on the chat line
All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers.
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
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Ah Understand now, sorry for being snappish.
Forever a battle as rafting makes the money - even though slalom caused the course to be built..
Forever a battle as rafting makes the money - even though slalom caused the course to be built..
All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers.
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
Let's not the facts get in the way
Is it just me who thought that this might be disabled access gone mad.
I was only saying yesterday that the thought of and elderly woman trundling up the conveyor in wheel chair and helmet was worth a ponderance
I'm guessing you'd need special tyres and a dog snorkel
http://www.dogsforthedisabled.org/
I'm pretty sure it was just me though
Is it just me who thought that this might be disabled access gone mad.
I was only saying yesterday that the thought of and elderly woman trundling up the conveyor in wheel chair and helmet was worth a ponderance
I'm guessing you'd need special tyres and a dog snorkel
http://www.dogsforthedisabled.org/
I'm pretty sure it was just me though
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Back on the original topic (after I misunderstood)
How do we / can we address this focus on rafting for venues built for canoes/kayaks? I beleive that the Lee Valley team are trying to keep canoe/kayak up but make LOADS more from rafting.
I have heard (over the last six months) of the nene rafting centre, Cardiff Rafting centre, Getting worse - the TRYWERYN rafting centre. Anyone got good ideas on how to deal with this?
Glad to say this was the first time it was Lee Valley rafting centre, but then I did not spot that first time round.
How do we / can we address this focus on rafting for venues built for canoes/kayaks? I beleive that the Lee Valley team are trying to keep canoe/kayak up but make LOADS more from rafting.
I have heard (over the last six months) of the nene rafting centre, Cardiff Rafting centre, Getting worse - the TRYWERYN rafting centre. Anyone got good ideas on how to deal with this?
Glad to say this was the first time it was Lee Valley rafting centre, but then I did not spot that first time round.
All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are due to too many English classes/teachers.
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
Old. Fat. Slow. Bad tempered. And those are my good points
Think the main issue is profile leverage - ie they have a bigger budget to advertise. If you go to any of the main centre website
Cardiff - http://www.ciww.com/content.asp
LV http://www.leevalleypark.org.uk/en....g.aspx?
Teesdie http://www.tbiwwc.com/
Treweryn http://www.ukrafting.co.uk/
All of these website have images of rafts and folk rafting - the difficulty is slalom can not be commercialised in the same way as rafting can - so until we can find a way of making money out of slalom in a way that can involve the public then its a non starter really and I dont personally see this happening any time soon
Cardiff - http://www.ciww.com/content.asp
LV http://www.leevalleypark.org.uk/en....g.aspx?
Teesdie http://www.tbiwwc.com/
Treweryn http://www.ukrafting.co.uk/
All of these website have images of rafts and folk rafting - the difficulty is slalom can not be commercialised in the same way as rafting can - so until we can find a way of making money out of slalom in a way that can involve the public then its a non starter really and I dont personally see this happening any time soon