"Ti porto io" (titolo originale: "I'll Push You"), per la regia di Chris Karcher e Terry Parish (Spagna, USA, 2017)
E' un commovente film che racconta la storia vera di un pellegrinaggio a Santiago de Compostela, lungo gli 8oo km che si dipanano nel Nord della Spagna a partire lungo il Camino Francés e Aragonés, compiuto da Patrick Gray e dall'amico Justin Skeesuck, quest'ultimo costretto a vivere su di una sedia a rotelle.
E il film non è soltanto la storia di un uomo "normalmente abile" che ne spinge uno "diversamente abile", costretto sulla sedia a rotelle, lungo gli 800 km del Cammino di Santiago, ma anche una toccante vicenda sul potere dell'amicizia e della comunità.

Tutto ha inizio quando Patrick accetta una proposta pazzesca: portare il suo migliore amico Justin, costretto a vivere su una sedia a rotelle, per tutti i famosi 800 chilometri del Cammino di Santiago.
Il risultato? Un film documentario, unico nel suo genere, che illustra la loro impresa, il loro pellegrinaggio, la solidarietà, l'amicizia. 
Negli ultimi anni, a partire da quello girato dagli Sheen padre e figlio, sono diventati numerosi. 
Ognuno di questi film, però, ha affrontato il tema da prospettive differenti. Nessuno però aveva raggiunto l'originalità di questo il cui titolo originale suona molto più efficace di quello italiano.
Il film viene portato in un tour italiano dalla Mescalito Film.
Si possono seguire gli eventi delle proiezioni nelle diverse città italiane sulla pagina facebook della Mescalito Film

A Palermo, il film verrà dato in visione presso la Sala Rouge et Noir, il 7 gennaio 2019, alle ore 20.30.

(Giuseppe Cascino - www.gdmed.it) Lo scorso week-end (14-15 novembre 2015) al Palasport di Catanzaro, si è disputato il Campionato Italiano di Para-taekwondo.

José Ferrera non solo ha avuto il coraggio di seguire il suo sogno sportivo con determinazione e passione ma è andato oltre vincendo il titolo Italiano.
La sfida di José è nata come un gioco: affetto dalla sindrome di Down, ha iniziato a frequentare con grande interesse questo sport.
Oggi si allena per dodici ore alla settimana con grande impegno e la sua solita allegria.
Il taekwondo per José è innanzitutto un divertimento, poi è arrivato il successo grazie all’impegno di tutti quelli che insieme a lui sono stati i primi a credere nel suo talento e nelle sue potenzialità.
Non è stato tutto facile, ma la tenacia di Jose è la testimonianza concreta che è possibile abbattere barriere e muri presenti nella nostra società.
Felicità e commozione, quando il nostro campione, il giorno dopo ha portato a scuola la medaglia per mostrarla ai suoi insegnanti e compagni dell’Istituto Professionale Alberghiero Pietro Piazza.
Lo Sport è un’importante risorsa per migliorare la qualità della vita, per questo, motivo è importante espandere sempre più la cultura dello sport come possibilità d’inclusione, poiché di fronte ad una prestazione sportiva una persona con disabilità diventa semplicemente una “persona”, capace di risolvere problemi, di porsi obiettivi e gestire le difficolta della vita.
Parlare di sport dal punto di vista dei diritti umani significa, parlare di «inclusione» e partecipazione nella vita comunitaria in tutti gli ambiti, dove la diversità umana è una ricchezza di talenti, superando ostacoli e pregiudizi.
Congratulazioni Jose, nello sport si è tutti uguali senza nessuna discriminazione, sei un esempio di vita per tutti!

Adam Clarke (4'05) and Racheal Bamford were crowned British Athletics road mile champions at the third Bupa Westminster Mile in central London today (the 24th of May, 2015) as David Weir broke the wheelchair world record for the third year in a row.
The event marked 30 years since Steve Cram set the British track mile record of 3:46.32 at the Deam Mile in Oslo in July 1985, and Cram himself was on hand to present the Roger Bannister trophy to Clarke, who was just outside the four-minute barrier today in 4:05.
The Aldershot, Farnham & District athlete outsprinted Jonny Hay and Ben Coldrey, plus race favourite James Brewer, to win an eight-man finish in front of Buckingham Palace.
“It was a really good run with the likes of Johnny Hay and James Brewer involved,” - said the 24-year-old after winning his first ever mile race - “I know they are fast, so I had to make a move early on and just after halfway I went for it. But I needed some money in the bank for the last 100m as they have strong kicks”.
Bamford also won a close race, coming from behind to take the women's title in the final stretch from Charlene Thomas and Hannah England. England took this title two years ago and it looked like this would be a straight battle between her and Thomas before Bamford surged forward late on.
“I enjoyed the race,” - said the Leeds City steeplechaser, who was sixth here last year - “I’m quite strong at the moment because my steeplechase training has been going well. I love the Westminster Mile, that's why I came back, and it was a great race to win.”

Bamford received the Diane Leather trophy from Cram who had just watched Weir smash his own world wheelchair record, beating his arch rival Marcel Hug in a dog-fight finish.
The six-times London Marathon winner flew around the course, which skirts St James’s Park in the heart of Westminster, to cross the line on Spur Road in 3:03, just outside the sub-three minute barrier he’s been targeting for three years.
“Nearly, so nearly,” - said Weir when he came to a stop at the base of Victoria Memorial at the top of The Mall - “Marcel went off like a rocket but I took the rest of the race on. I’m gutted because I’ve been doing sub-three in training all week. It’s just the bends on this course that make it so hard. It’s great to get the world record again, but it’s a shame not to get sub-three. I’m getting closer and closer”.

Former Paralympic rower Martyna Snopek retained the women’s wheelchair crown in 4:45, while Kieran Wood from Cambridge took the junior men’s under 20 race in 4:20, just ahead of Scott Halstead. Holly Parker of Enfield Harriers won the junior women’s under 20 race from Niamh Bridson Hubbard in 5:03.
The six-hour festival also included junior wheelchair events for men and women, plus six British Athletics age-group races for boys and girls aged from 11 to 17, all of them presented with a medal bearing an image of Cram crossing the finish line in 1985.
The BBC presenter had earlier turned back the clock 30 years when he won a special race featuring more than 80 former British Olympians in 5:40.
Cram set off at the head of a large field containing not just track and field athletes, but former rowers, fencers and cyclists, all sent on their way by 98-year-old Bill Lucas, Britain’s oldest Olympian and a veteran of the 1948 Games in London when he ran 5000m.
“I loved it,” said Cram, who beat Seoul 1988 middle distance runner Shireen Bailey to the line. “It was amazing seeing loads of people I haven't seen for years. “I hope it can be even better next year – the lads, especially the male runners, can do better. There were far more of the old girls here. It's great to see so many different sports represented though, it was great fun”.
One of those sports was hockey, represented in style by members of the famous 1988 men’s gold-medal winning team, Rob Clift and Richard Leman who, together with 1996 hockey players Simon Hazlitt and Soma Singh, flicked a ball between them around the whole course.
"It's a great atmosphere and it's good to see some guys I haven't seen for a while,”- said Clift. “I do triathlon every now again and my boys both play hockey now so I'm still involved with a lot of sport." It was really good fun knocking a ball between us the whole way,” added Hazlitt. “I'm pleased it was only a mile though, I'm knackered!”

Former 400 m runner Jos Hoyte-Smith and marathon runner Dave Long were responsible for bringing the old Olympians together.

“It was fantastic, but it was also hard, it was much further than my old event, the 400m!” - said Hoyte-Smith - “But the whole point was to get people together again and it went great. To get the response we did was marvellous,” said Long. “Hopefully it's the inaugural one, not the only one. Doing a mile feels ok. In the past I would have had another 25.2 to go.”

The last Olympian home was Alan Newton, an 85-year-old former cyclist who competed at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki. Newton finished under an impromptu guard of honour made of hockey sticks and foam fencing swords as the rest of the Olympian field chaperoned him to the line.
Among the day’s 33 races were numerous non-championship events for club athletes, joggers, and family members of all sizes, shapes and ages.
Twenty-two-year-old Mariusz Iwaniviec from Poland had the honour of being the first runner home as he cruised across the line shortly before 09:50 this morning.
The former international mountain runner and steeplechaser moved to Wellingborough in Northants just over two years ago and entered the race to see if he could break five minutes.
After biding his time for the first half mile, Iwaniviec broke clear to clock 4:31, his arms raised as he strode beneath the gantry.
“It feels to great to be first,” said Iwaniviec. “I read about the event in the newspaper and thought I would give it a go. “I only had six weeks to train and thought I might get in the top 10, so to be first is fantastic. Now I will start training again properly.”
Elsie Butler from Charnwood Athletics Club in Leicestershire was the first woman home. The 23-year-old 1500m specialist described the event as “great fun”.
“It was great to be here and good to see Steve Cram,” she said. “I love this event. I did it last year and will do it every year now, especially when the weather’s like this.”
Among the crowds of finishers who followed Iwaniviec and Butler was Tess Daly, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing presenter, who said she “loved every minute” of her race.
“That has to be one of the most iconic miles in Britain with that backdrop behind us,” - said Daly, a Bupa Feel Great Britain Ambassador - “It was great to be involved in it. We couldn’t have asked for better weather, or crowds, or organisation. There was so much support all the way round.”

Mums, dads, kids and grandparents were among the waves of family racers to wash through the finish zone, some jogging together hand-in-hand, some coming one-by-one to meet each other in front of Buckingham Palace. Some with pushchairs, some in football tops, some dressed as their favourite super-heroes. All of them with smiles on their faces.
Three-and-a-half-year-old Khyllah Hamilton ran with her mum Ingrid; the pair were one of the first mum-and-daughter couples to complete the course. “She loves running,” said Ingrid, who’s also entered the Bupa London 10,000 tomorrow. “She’s taking after mummy. I’m sure we’ll be back.”
Dom and Ethan Fiore were the first father-and-son team home, finishing just 15 seconds apart in impressive times of 5:20 and 5:35 respectively.
“It looks like my days of being number one in our household are numbered,” - joked dad Dom, a Cambridge Harrier, his speedy 10-year-old son hardly out of breath beside him. - “We both did it last year, but he’s improved by about 45 seconds since then. We were aiming to be the first dad and son to finish, so I hope we were.”

Among the other well-known faces was former Olympic heptathlon champion Denise Lewis, who was official starter for a race marking Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign, led home by Amanda Heslegrave from Barking Road Runners club in East London.

“I usually run half marathons and marathons so I fancied something different,” she said. “I’ve been here all morning with some friends and it’s just fantastic, it’s great how this event works.
There are fast people and slow people, it’s good for everybody. It’s superb and really well organised. I could never envisage how it would work with so many people running a mile, but I’ll definitely be back.”
It was a sentiment shared by thousands of other runners on a day when Steve Cram and 80 Olympians came together to celebrate their part in Britain’s sporting history.

BRIEF RESULTS
Senior men
1. Adam Clarke 4:05
2. Jonny Hay 4:06
3. Ben Coldrey 4:07
Senior Women
1. Racheal Bamford 4:39
2. Charlene Thomas 4:40
3. Hannah England 4:41
Wheelchair Men
1. David Weir 3:03
2. Marcel Hug (SUI) 3:03
3. John Smith 3:41
Wheelchair Women
1. Martyna Snopek 4:45
2. Claire Connon 7:28
Junior Men
1. Kieran Wood 4:20
2. Scott Halstead 4:20
3. James McCarthy 4:21
Junior Women
1. Holly Parker 5:03
2. Niamh Bridson Hubbard 5:03
3. Laura Gent 5:06

The Bupa Westminster Mile is staged in partnership with Westminster City Council as part of Westminster’s commitment to encourage more people to take up sport and be more physically active.

The 2015 Bupa Westminster Mile has took place in St James's Park, London.

The event, now in its third year, featured 33 one-mile races throughout the day for runners of all ages and abilities.

Spectator highlights will include the Olympians Mile, featuring more than 80 British Olympians from past Games, and the Men’s Wheelchair race when Paralympic star David Weir and Switzerland’s Marcel Hug will battle it out in an attempt to become the first athlete to record 

Strictly Come Dancing star Tess Daly also took part in one of the family mile races and encouraged the runners to enjoy the huge range of family entertainment and activities on offer in Green Park as part of Bupa's Feel Great Britain campaign.

A Bupa Westminster Mile race round-up has been circulatimg after the final race (15:20).

View the day's race schedule here.

Dal 2013 la Virgin Money London Marathon ospita anche il IPC World Championships, cioè il Campionato del Mondo di Maratona per le diverse categorie di disabili.
La gara di domenica 26 aprile 2015, ha visto infranti numerosi record precedentemente stabiliti.

Il migliore è stato il marocchino El Amin Chentouf (categoria T12) che, già vincitore nella sua categoria nelle due precedenti edizioni, ha tagliato il traguardo in 2h21'33, migliorando di oltre due minuti il record da lui precedentemente stabilito.

Bene l'italiano Alessandro Lello nella propria categoria.

IPC World Championships report: Records tumble at the London Marathon

(26/04/2015) Three marathon world records were broken at the IPC Athletics World Marathon Championship races today, as Morocco’s El Amin Chentouf (T12), Spain’s Abderrahman Ait Khamouch (T46) and Russia’s Yelena Paulova (T12) clinched gold in their respective races at the Virgin Money London Marathon.

Reigning world champion Chentouf, 33, secured his third consecutive London marathon victory in style, knocking nearly two and a half minutes off the previous world mark set in London two years’ ago when he won the inaugural IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup.

“I’m so happy today to win the London Marathon and set a new world record”- said the 33-year-old. “I’m very proud and grateful and I want to thank everyone – technical staff, the Moroccan federation and the King of Morocco. I ran quicker, as the world record and the world title was my objective. I am very happy”.

Spain’s Alberto Suarez Laso finished second in 2:21:47, with Japan’s Tadashi Horikoshi taking the third spot on the podium in 2:27:42.

Ait Khamouch secured his world record in the men’s T45/46 event, improving on the mark set by Mexico’s Mario Santillan Hernandez in Beijing seven years ago with a time of 2:26:54.

Italy’s 2013 world champion Alessandro di Lello finished third behind Brazil’s Alex Pires da Silva.

Russia’s Elena Pautova smashed the T12 world record as she clocked 2:58:23 to top the podium in the women’s T11/12 event.

The 29-year-old, who holds the Paralympic, world and European titles in the T12 1,500m, finished more than four minutes ahead of the field with Spain’s Elena Congost and Japan’s Michishita Misato clinching silver and bronze respectively.

Brazil’s Aniceto Antonio Dos Santos took gold in the men’s T13 event, finishing comfortably in 2:35:42 with Morocco’s Youssef Benibrahim taking silver in 2:36:07. New Zealand’s former Paralympic 800m T13 champion Tim Prendergast bagged bronze in 2:47:23.

Israel’s Eitan Hermon secured his first IPC Athletics world gold with victory in the men’s T42/43/44 event in 3:07:10.

David Weir, disabile su wheelchair è il campione paralimpico britannico in wheelchair, con uno stupefacente palmares di titoli, ma anche il più osannato e popolare campione, sempre pronto a dare un messaggio positivo ai disabili come lui o portatori di altre disabilità e a promuovere delle cause caritatevoli per diffondere il verbo dello sport tra i disabili.
Ha raccolto numerosissimi e prestigiosi titoli mondiali nel corso della sua carriera (ben quattro ori conquistati ai Giochi Olimpici di Londra nel 2012), ma ha anche avuto la forza di essere per ben sei volte il disabile in wheelchair vincitore della Maratona di Londra (non consecutivamente) e il primo uomo in wheelchair a scendere sotto il crono di 1h30' nella distanza della maratona (2006, con 1h29'48).
Weir si appresta a disputare la 35^ edizione della Virgin Money London Marathon che si disputerà il prossimo 26 aprile 2015 e, naturalmente, ambisce a conquistare il titolo per la 7^ volta.
Di seguito, un'intervista al Campione e un "giro guidato" della sua supertecnologica carrozzina da competizione.

Six-time London Marathon champion David Weir took time out from training in Richmond Park recently to give us a guided tour of his race chair.

When Great Britain’s David Weir lines up for the start of the Virgin Money London Marathon on Sunday 26 April he’ll be looking to win a record-breaking seventh London Marathon title. Weir will return to the capital looking to better his 2014 runner-up spot but, with so many great athletes on the racing scene right now, he’s not taking anything for granted.

We caught up with the ‘Weirwolf’ in London’s Richmond Park to find out how his training’s going ahead of this year’s race. He also took time out to talk us through the ins and outs of his race chair.

How’s your training for London going? It’s going really well. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve had a very strong winter this year. I know it’s been cold but it’s been very dry, so I’ve been able to get out most days. If you can get out and do the miles, that’s what you need to cover all the marathons and half-marathons I’m doing. London is important for me, I’ve come second last year and fifth the year before and I don’t like coming second so I’ve put that little bit more effort in this winter. I’ve also got the challenge of the Boston Marathon the week before.

What are your big targets for 2015? There are quite a lot, but Boston and London are the big challenges for me because I’ve never done that sort of mileage together at that time of year. I need those sorts of challenges to get me motivated and focused. Even after two marathons in a week it puts you in good stead for the track season and a few marathons later on in the season. I’ve got a busy year as I like to get all my Olympic qualifying standards in the year before the Games, which means that next year I can pick and choose what races I do.

It was a tight finish with Marcel Hug at last year’s London Marathon. Are you expecting another close finish this year? There are a lot of us racing now! Kota Hokinoue’s pushing really well – he won the Oz Day 10K in Australia earlier this year. He looks very strong and fast. But there could be at least six of us who can win on the day so it’s going to be an interesting battle. Last year I got beaten quite heavily by Kota in Lisbon, and I only had a month to catch up before London. I don’t want to do that this year; I want to be ready in every race.

David Weir e la sua presenza, nel corso degli anni, alla Maratona di Londra. Weir finished fifth in the 2000 London marathon setting a time of 1:47:11.
In the 2001 London marathon, he finished third in a time of 1:50:05.
His breakthrough in the competition came in 2002 when, as the youngest competitor in his category, he won in a time of 1:39:44. Before the race Weir's personal best fell outside the top twelve competitors at that year's Marathon, and he was not considered a serious challenger. But at the age of 21, he beat his personal best by seven seconds to win the race. Weir's training partner Tushar Patel, both members of Kingsmeadow-based Velocity Wheelchair Racing Club, finished a minute and half behind in second place.

After the race, Weir said: "It was a childhood dream to win the London Marathon and I'm extremely happy with how the race went. I was sure people were going to catch up with me when I made a break away but they didn't. It was brilliant to cross the line first and with a personal best time".
Weir was second in the 2003 and 2004 London marathons. His 2003 time of 1:34:48 was 5 minutes faster than his personal best.
In 2004, wet conditions and problems with spray from his wheels yielded a slower time of 1:42:50.
In 2005 Weir finished third, with a time of 1:36:03,[18] in a race that saw the first seven competitors cross the line separated by 13 seconds.
In 2006 Weir won his second London marathon, setting a course record in wet conditions with a time of 1:29:48.

With this time, Weir also became the first wheelchair racer to break the 1:30 mark.

Weir said after his win, "I wasn't even going to take part this morning. I've been suffering from a cold and it was 50/50 whether I would turn up or not".
In 2007 Weir won his third London marathon. He beat Australian Paralympic champion Kurt Fearnley by 1 second in a time of 1:30:49, the second fastest time seen on the London course. Fearnley, undefeated since October 2006 in eight marathons, paid tribute to his fellow competitor.
On 13 April 2008, Weir won his third London Marathon in a row, and his fourth in total. In a time of 1:33:56, he finished 4 seconds ahead of Australian Kurt Fearnley with a sprint finish on the Mall. Weir's fourth win gave him £7,600 in prize money.
In 2009 Weir finished in second place, in a time of 1:28:57, behind Kurt Fearnley. In another sprint finish on the Mall, Fearnley edged out Weir to set a new course record of 1:28:56.
Despite getting punctures to his front and left wheels Weir still managed to finish in third place in the 2010 London marathon in a time of 1:37:01. At one point, he led the race by 4 minutes.
In 2011 Weir won his fifth London marathon in a time of 1:30:05. This was the tenth year in a row that Weir had finished with a podium spot.
In the run-up to the 2012 London marathon, Weir revealed "What I’d say to the guys coming to London is that my training is going great and I don’t think I’ve ever felt in such good shape at this point in the year. I’m averaging about 80 miles a week in the chair." In 2012 Weir won his sixth London marathon in a time of 1:32:26. He remarked after the race "Grey-Thompson inspired me in this sport. I saw her compete in Sydney as a youngster and I went on to medal in 2008." Weir hinted that the 2012 London competition might be his last. With Weir's sixth win in the London Marathon he equaled the record of Baroness Tanni-Grey Thompson. He said afterwards: "This is my favourite win ever because the field was so strong. I was quite emotional when I crossed the line as it could be my last London Marathon for a while".
Weir competed in the 2013 London Marathon, finishing in 5th place in 1:31:31, 2 seconds behind race winner Kurt Fearnley. In the 2014 London marathon he came a close second
Weir hasn't always seen eye to eye with the organisers of the London marathon. In 2006, he criticised them for treating wheelchair athletes as second class citizens. He told the Sutton Guardian, "If I can help put disabled athletics on the map along the way, that is what I want to do".