Paralympics GB team celebrate at homecoming event

A homecoming lawsuit has been held for Britain's Paralympic stars successful Birmingham.

The squad finished 2nd successful the medal array astatine Paris 2024, ending with a full of 124 medals including 49 golds.

Acts including Craig David, Aitch, Sugababes and Jonas Blue performed successful a performance astatine the Utilita Arena Birmingham to people the team's successes.

Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker, who big TV programme The Last Leg, attended the lawsuit which volition beryllium screened connected Channel 4 astatine 17:30 BST connected Saturday.

Asked however she wore 2 medals astatine the aforesaid time, Jodie Grinham, who won golden and bronze successful archery arsenic she was 7 months pregnant, said "with difficulty".

She told BBC Radio WM: "Believe it oregon not, they are highly heavy.

"So there's a fewer times erstwhile I'm holding them and radical are like...'look astatine her holding her medals'.

"And I'm similar 'no, I'm virtually conscionable taking the value disconnected the bump'."

Nine-time Paralympic golden medal victor Hannah Cockroft said she was "far from done" pursuing much occurrence astatine the Paris Games.

Cockroft finished successful beforehand of teammate Kare Adenegan, who is from Coventry, successful the T34 800m last to assertion her 2nd golden rubric successful Paris pursuing earlier occurrence successful the T34 100m, taking her wide vocation tally to 9 golds.

Speaking astatine the homecoming, she told PA Media: "The feeling of golden medals volition ne'er ever get old.

"I decidedly privation to effort and get treble figures. I consciousness I person truthful overmuch to learn, I've got truthful galore things I request to amended connected truthful there's decidedly much to give."

Following connected from the successes of Paris, Paralympics GB wrote an unfastened missive to the government to telephone for disabled children to get adjacent entree to athletics successful schools.

In response, a authorities spokesperson said it had launched a reappraisal into opening up entree and however it could enactment the "Paralympians of the future".