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Athletics: The T12 women’s long jump final is underway, second round of jumps happening now. Sara Martinez of Spain currently leads with 5.38m. Ukrainian Oksana Zubkovska holds the world record of 6.6 metres, but she set that nearly a decade ago, and her best today is well over a metre short of that.
Football: I’ve not had the experience of watching this kind of 5-a-side before, and let me tell you, it is absolutely brutal. Non-contact? Pfffft. They are belting into each other every other moment.
This is a visual impairment sport, so the players are blindfolded aside from the goalkeepers, who aren’t allowed to leave a tiny box in front of goal. There are bells in the ball, and the goalkeeper can call directions to the players, as can an assistant behind each team’s target goal, directing the shooting.
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