Cerebral palsy sufferer Matt Ellis has been feeling bitterly disappointed after sustaining an Achillies tendon tear during the BT Paralympic World Cup this week. The injury has come as a disappointment to both Ellis and the British team.
The thirty year old flew in from Miami for the World Cup, which was featuring football for the first time ever, and managed to score the only goal in the win over the USA team. Ellis' glory was short lived unfortunately as he then sustained the injury during a 3-1 defeat by overall competition winners the Netherlands.
Ellis has now been told to rest his tendon until September which will result in him missing the upcoming European Championships which is obviously a disappointment.
"I'm gutted obviously," said Ellis. "I felt a hot pain in the second half of that game against the Dutch and I went over for a scan and it's a torn Achilles. Rather than up the Achilles, it's a 4mm tear across it which is worse apparently.'
Britain however managed to achieve the bronze medal which has come as little comfort for the team who were previously unbeaten throughout 2009.Ellis admitted that the team need to up their training in order to be able to compete against the best.
"Hopefully we can raise our game and play our attacking, flowing brand of football again," said Ellis. "I think the problem is we only play once a month together whereas a lot of the teams train once a week. But we're still feeling good about the European Championships.
The Paralympic World Cup is the largest multi-sport annual elite disability competition in the world and many athletes competed in Manchester this time. The competition has been placed there in order to bridge the gap between the four yearly paralympic games.
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Transport for London have apparently wasted more than 64 million pounds on a scheme which has collapsed which was meant to make seven tube stations accessible to disabled passengers and parents with push chairs.
The total cost of abandoning the scheme which would have involved providing lift from ground level to platform level has been revealed recently. The figures are quite shocking and the lack of result will be irritating to many people.
It has also been made public knowledge that the TFL spent around 39 million pounds as Shepherd's Bush station with an estimated 4.4 million being spent on new lifts and the fees of the contractor reaching 22 million, even though the only things built were two empty lift shafts. It has been suggested that the project and all that it entailed had been largely underestimated.
In a statement Travel for London said:"Installing a lift at Shepherd's Bush station was always going to be costly and technically challenging because of the layout and condition of the below-ground station. Better planning would have helped the TFL see the full requirements of the project both work wise and cost wise.
Some other development has been stopped at a further six stations since September last year due to travel for London not having enough money to continue. The work was halted at this point "to avoid further impacting the customer environment and to avoid incurring unnecessary construction or reinstatement costs", explained Travel for London.
The scheme's collapse means that wheelchair users and parents with buggies will not have lift access to platforms as things remain now. There is of course the possibility that the projects could be restarted in the future however there are no immediate plans. This is a big blow to many people and the amount of money that has been spent on the project with no results is extremely disappointing.
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