On the seventh day of paralysed competition in Athens, Greece, the pressure continues for the other sports to keep on their funding toes as search engine Google celebrates the birthday of Ray Charles, despite the singer/songwriter having been dead since June this year.
With the AFL grandfinals looming extremely soon on the weekend and the NBL to start up not far from now, tactics are getting desperate and highly questionable for the much forgotten, largely ignored Paralympians winning and losing medals and breaking their own world records.
Not even the live coverage of wheelchair athlete Louise Suavage's race stirred anything more than concern for what else might have been broadcasted on that very moment on other channels.
Spotted between bouts of food poisoning and regurgitated lamingtons, a donation hotline set up by boxed out target Jeff Fenech and Tab Limited. Pleading for sympathic wallet dishers, the advertisement, run on several waves of transmitted beams, asks for souls to donate and aid funding for the parathletes on their way to the games in Athens 2004.
Written on Friday, 24 September 2004