A nation which has suffered a small dead end Olympics less than two weeks, had the chance to return to life at night and resume exactly where you left off, as the Paralympics open with the other Opening Ceremony taking his text from the storm, but the relief of exploration in British history.
Preface 11 days of competition, the theme of the gala was the lighting. This resulted involve anything from Handel's Eternal Source of Light Divine in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the apple falling on Isaac Newton Lincolnshire garden to celebrate Stephen Hawking of the Higgs particle .
The great astrophysicist and Sir Ian McKellen in the role of Prospero, who shared MC duties with Nicola Miles-wild as Miranda, singer basic lines of Shakespeare: "O wonder / how many creatures are here / How good is handsome! Oh, wonderful new world / that has In't people like that! "
This time around the queen had to do was stand up and make a short speech. Nobody invites you to follow his striking performance in the next James Bond Bread people join or sing a duet with Beverley Knight. Like the rest of the 80,000 in the stadium in Stratford, sat down to watch the Paralympic Opening Ceremony threw the spotlight on the role of science to help change social attitudes and culminated with the lighting petals of the 205 new long-stemmed Thomas Heatherwick The raid pot calling from the top of the tower adjacent Anish Kapoor, undertook the final leg of his journey of an athlete coupled with a zip.
"Prepare to be inspired, get ready to be dazzled, be prepared to move," said Sebastian Coe viewers. He was talking about the 503 events in which medals at stake, but could be described without compromising the culmination of a four-hour gala, which came with a performance by members Autisticus Spasticus Ian Dury Graeae Theatre Company and the The appearance of a giant version Alison Lapper Pregnant by Marc Quinn's sculpture of women without limbs that once looked down from the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
They were no doubt why we are here - and the degree to which we Ludwig Guttmann, a neurosurgeon Silesia who came to England as a refugee from Hitler, has identified the possibility of using sport to help recovery of paralyzed soldiers and women who were previously considered beyond salvation.
In front of the world media this week, the South African runner Oscar Pistorius, his legs were amputated at an early age, he made the point that Paralympic athletes want to be judged not on disability, but ability.
In other words, the 4200 competitors from 164 countries, and did not like his ability to feel compassion for its members missing. The fact is, however, that this group of villagers came to London 2012 athletes more bulky than previous occupants. Just more stories are taken. If so, we would not be here.
And "thanks to them we now know something about the implications of being born without a fibula in both legs (Pistorius) with multiple congenital arthrogryposis (Lee Pearson, owner of nine gold medals flaming horse Sydney, Athens and Beijing ), or without hands or feet (Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias.)
We have learned to recognize the possibilities of realization that there are still around and jump into a pool and broke his neck (female rugby player in wheelchair Kylie Grimes) the loss of a leg in childhood meningitis (100m teenage prodigy Jonnie Peacock), or lost both legs in a railroad train (jabalinista Nathan Stephens) or a Circle Line train on 7/7 (sitting volleyball Martine Wright) .
He gave us a nudge, especially a deeper understanding of the "transformation", according to employee eloquently Guttmann goal in founding the Stoke Mandeville Games for the paralyzed, he said, was "to transform a patient with severely disabled as taxpayers. "
There was no sentimentality Guttmann. A film in black and white exhibition brings together a bedridden patient who confesses to a loss of confidence in the recovery. "Now cut that out there," the doctor takes the freshness of its delivery maybe just a bit exaggerated by the camera.
His reward, before his death in 1980, he went to see the beginning of the transformation of the concept of the Paralympics modest, and therefore a change in public perception, not only for athletes with disabilities, but the disabilities.
Pistorius said this week from his personal experience of this process. In supermarkets, he said, parents often became their children away from the view of prosthetic legs. But once you have the opportunity to speak with the children, telling them that perhaps their original legs went away because he could not eat vegetables, shock and feelings of otherness and quickly disappears forever.
He noted with satisfaction that young people who showed up for the Paralympic Day in Trafalgar Square a year ago, "I had the normal reactions that people demonstrate disabled athletes - were friendly and happy."
The UK, he said, had taken care of persons with disabilities "a very surprising - a lot of people around the world will be forced to watch the Paralympic Games through the eyes of people in the UK and this is a big deal. "
These games are the real thing, okay, reflecting the Olympics in any way. They have their own files to improve performance illegally, as increasing blood obtained through various methods of self-torture, suited to the letter in a newspaper family.
A sponsor Paralympics - Atos, which verifies the employability of people with disabilities on behalf of the government - is accused of using his association with the event to clean his image.
And there is a dispute about the ability of the Paralympic Games to create an important asset in a time when disabled people in the UK suffer from drastic cuts in employment and the provision of financial support.
A part of the real world, in fact, share, and sometimes emphasizing its real problems and difficult to solve. But for the next 11 days, as we learn the rules of the ball and sitting volleyball, try visceral thrill of racing wheelchair and see the blind to play football by hearing and feeling, which also be a part completely squeeze the last drop of pleasure from an investment of £ 9.3 billion, which seems to have delivered the goods.
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