#paracycling

[queerforscience]

Inside Gaza with the para-cycling team distributing bread under siege

Instead of training for the 2024 Paralympics, the Gazan Sunbirds are fighting to stay alive.

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

[positiveaboutdisability]

Wesley Vinícius dos Santos is an amazing 23 year old wheelchair racer and paraskiier from Jundiaí, a city in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Wesley has been a wheelchair user for all his life because of spina bifida myelomeningocele. Myelomeningocele is a congenital condition in which there grows a malformation in the spine during pregnancy, causing damage to the spinal cord. This left Wesley completely paralyzed from his waist down for all his life and he never had any feeling whatsoever in his legs.

As in his own words, Wesley considered himself lucky that he never knew what it was like to walk, stand or use his legs in any way. He was a very sociable kid and always had lots of friends. The fact he had to use a wheelchair to get around never really bothered him, nor his surroundings.

Wesley had a very active and energetic personality and around the age 12, he started wheelchair racing. Ever since his first time on the track, he immediately loved it and by now, he gathered an impressive amount of medals and trophies in the sport!

Around the age of 18, Wesley was introduced to para-skiing by Cristian Westemaier Ribera, a good friend of his whom I featured earlier on in my blog. Wesley really got a kick out of skiing and now regularly trains on slopes all over the world with Cristian and with female athlete Aline Rocha!

Unfortunately, Wesley hasn't been selected for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo later this year, but he has a good chance of competing in Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China in 2022!

If you'd like to follow Wesley on Instagram, you can do so by clicking the link right here!

[jenscyclingart]

I’ve been off Tumblr for a while. So I’m just sharing a few things I’ve been up to. I got commissioned by the UCI to produce 11 illustrations for World Bicycle Day! Non branded prints shown here available on my website now!JensCyclingArt.com

[hizokucycles]

#Repost from cyclist @zoydualc - Full Gas! 💨 • • #paracycling #paralympic #tredbikes #tredfactoryracing #tredders #manaiarhcedition #tootwheels #handmadeinitaly #ilovelightmetal #kplushelmet #keepthepleasure #srmitalia #srmpc8 #redhookcritmilano #scattofisso #fixedgear 📸 credits @wladimir.caiazza #hizokucycles HizokuCycles.com https://www.instagram.com/p/BpC3WZZnUMT/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nmphsivfuc1t

[fixiegirls]

Repost from @alicevareliita "Aprende a caminar con la frente en el alto, con pasos firmes y mucha actitud ante el mundo, porque cada paso que des marcara la diferencia" #soyciclista #vamospormas #paracycling #1diaalavez #powergirl #bikegirl #puñoarriba #elevatunivel #venezuelapaisdefuturo #zonabionicaalice #ulloadeportes

[womenscycling]

UCI Para-cycling Road World Cup - Maniago 2017 | Time Trial - YouTube

[paolopennimartelli]

Big boss. ☠️☠️☠️ #fixedgear #trackbike #velodrome #fixedboys #bike #cycling #passion #life #love #inspiration #paracycling #paralympics #instagram #instadaily #daily #genesiscyclingteam #free #daily @genesis_cycling_team @inverseteams @luckbike #colors #nofilter #nikon #bw #bn #bnw @cojocabron #nikontop_ #portrait