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Paralysed boy from Weybridge to lead athletes at triathlon
A 10-year-old schoolboy from Surrey who is paralysed from the chest down will lead a team of Paralympians at a triathlon who lives near Weybridge, will complete the cycling and run/push sections of the full Superhero Tri before leading Paralympic swimming medallist and European champion Callie-Ann Warrington and Paralympic and world rowing champion Laura Sugar in the sprint event."Superhero Tri gave us hope and planted the first seed in Emerson about all he can do," said Emerson's mother, Anna-Marina, who described her son as having a "fearless spirit".The Superhero Tri will be held at Dorney Lake, Windsor, on 16 August. In August 2016, when Emerson was aged just 19 months, he had an operation to decompress an arachnoid cyst which was pressing on his spinal nerve. While the cyst was decompressed, the surgery resulted in a spinal cord injury that left Emerson paralysed from the chest down."As we were coming to terms with his diagnosis and paralysis, we were with him in hospital teaching him how to sit up again," said Anna-Marina."This was 2016 and the Rio Paralympics were being shown on TV."Seeing disabled athletes taking part in multiple sports was incredible to watch from his hospital bed and gave us strength at a time when we needed it most. "They opened our eyes to what might be possible for Emerson."At the same time, Sophia Warner was reporting trackside from Rio - but she was also hatching a plan for a large scale event for people with November, she launched the Superhero Tri. Warner is a Paralympian with cerebral palsy and was the first disabled person to enter the London Triathlon back in ahead of the Superhero Tri, she said: "It's so much fun and I think it sets out to prove that with everything set up in the right way, anything's possible."It's just great to see at grass roots level so many people with disabilities coming and taking part in sport just for Tri is now on its eighth event and has grown to include more than 5,000 plans to complete the adapted cycle and run sections in his wheelchair, and will be joined by his best friend Leo, mum and her partner said Emerson has grown in confidence since taking part in the events."He'll take on any sport - wheelchair racing, wheelchair tennis and anything with a ball - and he goes at life with a fearless spirit," she will be 28 Paralympians taking part in this weekend's event overall.
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Runner, 91, seizes the day at Mersea Island Parkrun
A man has completed his first-ever Parkrun at the age of Thorley finished the 5km (3.1-mile) run on Mersea Island, Essex, in just over an met both his aims for the run - to finish the course and to not come last - and said he wanted to encourage people to have a go and make some more friends."If I don't do it now, when am I going to do it? I'm getting older by the day," he said. Mr Thorley first signed up for Parkrun - a weekly, timed 5km event which takes place in more than 20 countries across the world - four years ago, just one year after undergoing heart surgery. But he did not take part until a fortnight ago, clocking a time of 1:03:04."It's a question of 'Carpe Diem' ['seize the day' in Latin]," he is not the oldest person to have taken part in Parkrun, Messam was a regular at a Parkrun in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, at the age of 95, while Colin Thorne marked his 101st birthday in style in January by completing his 217th Parkrun in Whangarei, New Thorley's wife Sarah, 69, is a regular Parkrunner, last week completing her 100th, with a time of 32: comes back "enthused" from the event, thanks to the "wonderful, friendly and encouraging people".She said: "The real stars are the people who set it all up; all the volunteers every week."Some people are here every week and they mightn't even ever have done a run, but they're here because they like it. It's a really nice, friendly place."Race director Viv Fox said: "We're just really lucky to have a core group of people who like coming here week in and week out and just enjoy the atmosphere." Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
