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Gold pedal start for Britain
11:52pm Sunday 7th September 2008
Great Britain enjoyed a tremendous opening day of the Paralympic Games with three cycling gold medals before also triumphing at the Water Cube.
Simon Richardson, Aileen McGlynn, with pilot rider Ellen Hunter, and Darren Kenny ensured the first three track cycling golds would return to Britain, just as seven out of 10 golds did last month in the Olympics.
Sascha Kindred then claimed Britain's fourth gold of the Games with his third successive Paralympic title in the men's SM6 200 metres individual medley.
The 30-year-old from Hereford triumphed in two minutes 42.19 seconds - lowering his own world and Paralympic record - for Britain's second swimming medal of the Paralympics after Broxburn's Jim Anderson clinched silver in the men's S2 200m freestyle.
Anderson, who was aiming to defend the four titles he won in Athens, finished second to Russia's Dmitry Kokarev, who lowered the Scot's world record to 4mins 45.43secs
And the Britain's swimmers overtook their cycling counterparts in medals won as Natalie Jones and Matt Walker each collected bronze medals.
Defending champion Jones was third in the SM6 women's 200m IM as America's Miranda Uhl set a world record of 3:13.05.
Walker then won Britain's fourth swimming medal in the SM7 men's 200m IM.
Walker, from Stockport, finished in 2:50.10 as America's Rudy Garcia Tolson smashed his own world record, winning in 2:35.92.
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I HAVE attached an old picture of Daisy the donkey, with my father Charles Davies who was the gardener in the Seaview Children’s home Bradford Place, and an unknown rider. The field opposite the home was named the Donkey Field. I wonder if anyone remembers Daisy? I think I took the picture in the late 1950s. Daisy lived in a stable in the grounds and one of my jobs was to bring her in at night from the field. My aim was to ride Daisy from the field through the side driveway to her stable, but Daisy always took the corner with a fast swerve and I regularly fell off.
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