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Originally posted by Dan Goodwin:
Was she disabled? I thought she suffered with cancer and did a **** load of fund-raising by running marathons and things?
Maybe wrong.
Sher wasn't an athlete technically either was she?
11-26-2007, 11:47 PM
A Famous Disabled Athlete Died This Year...... Post #8
For me an athlete is somebody who competes as an athlete, otherwise Jimmy Saville and every muppet who runs the London Marathon in a costume would count.
11-26-2007, 11:53 PM
A Famous Disabled Athlete Died This Year...... Post #10
Yeah I wouldn't class her as an athlete, or disabled. Goodwin is right :thup: fcuking inspirational if you ask me, didn't she fight it for something like 14 years?