Highlights from Special Olympics, Anniversary Games 2018, supported by Able Magazine
Able Magazine have worked with Special Olympics GB for a long time, so it was a privilege to have again been selected as media partner for their latest…
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Gerald Simonds Helps Paralympic Champion In Her Quest For Glory
Gerald Simonds is delighted to be assisting Paralympic gold medallist Karen Darke as she prepares for Tokyo 2020 and her latest Quest79 challenges. …
Dumfries student comes second out of thousands of disabled people in star-studded sporting challenge
Dumfries’s Jonny Brown joined celebrities, Paralympians and military heroes for a unique triathlon challenge that binned all the usual barriers to spor…
Euro title No.2 for Tai
Alice Tai led the British effort in the pool on the fifth night of finals of the 2018 European Championships in Dublin as she claimed her second contin…
Trio of Gold for GBR on day three
British athletes collected eight more medals on the third day of the European Para-Swimming Championships 2018 including three golds, plus a World reco…
Special Olympics GB – Anniversary Games 2021
Able Magazine is the official media partner of the Special Olympics GB’s 2021, the largest registered charity providing year-round sports training and …
Paralympic champion Wylie announces retirement
Paralympic champion Matt Wylie is to retire from competitive swimming. The Rio S9 50m freestyle gold medallist has taken the decision following a re…
Team BRIT demonstrates British grit and determination as it makes history at Le Mans
Team BRIT is proudly celebrating after its first race on the Le Mans circuit in the Aston Martin Le Mans Festival at the weekend. The all-British te…
GB Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Squad Announced Ahead of World Championships
British Wheelchair Basketball has announced the GB women’s squad for the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships, which take place in Hamburg, G…
Special Olympics GB Announces Team for World Games 2019 in Abu Dhabi
Special Olympics GB has announced its team for the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi. The World Summer Games is the biggest global event f…
Able gets the latest from Silverback Cycling Ambassador Glenn Johnstone
We recently came across this amazing story regarding Silverback ambassador, Glenn Johnstone. Glenn lost his leg 23 years ago due to a giant cell tumor,…
Jones doubles up as England seal three wheelchair marathon medals
Two races, two different sports, two medals – Jade Jones has certainly made sure to enjoy herself on the Gold Coast at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. …
Sophie Hahn completes the set with Commonwealth sprint gold
Sophie Hahn completed a golden quartet after adding the Commonwealth title to her Paralympic, World and European honours on the Gold Coast. The 21-y…
Lyle adds Commonwealth silver to medal collection
Paralympic, world, European and now a Commonwealth medal – Maria Lyle has already completed the set when it comes to sprinting. Add in the fact that…
Powerlifting trio secure Commonwealth medals on the Gold Coast
Ali Jawad completed a remarkable return to the sport of para-powerlifting after scooping Commonwealth Games bronze on the Gold Coast. But if they we…
World Champion Olivia Breen has Won the Women’s T38 Long Jump Final
New Commonwealth Games champion Olivia Breen overcame two fouls from her opening efforts to comfortably win the women’s T38 long jump final. The 201…
Fitzpatrick and Kehoe go for gold in final race
Menna Fitzpatrick and Jennifer Kehoe have become Paralympic slalom champions and Great Britain’s most decorated Paralympic winter athletes of all time.…
True determination from Britain’s curlers despite USA defeat
If ever there was an example of Team Neilson’s determination then it came at the start of the seventh end of their clash with the USA on day five of th…