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Bird's Nest Stadium, Beijing

At the Bird's Nest on Wednesday there were some but not from the person we expected it from.

David Weir's T54 400m race was one of the biggest finals in the evening session, the one that we all thought (including many of the international coaches, athletes and British fans that had come to watch) that he was going to be the cert to win.

If I was a betting person then I would have put all my money on David Weir.

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Water Cube, Beijing

From rock bottom to top of the world, it has been an amazing journey for Britain's .

Frederiksen's life changed completely four years ago when she was 18 and an accident left her with reduced mobility down the right hand side of her body.

Before the accident, she was a talented open water swimmer, competing in the 2003 World Championships and targeting a place at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

From being an active, sporty teenager with her life in front of her, she was left using a wheelchair with her Olympic dreams in tatters.

Hong Kong

Well what a day! in every Paralympics contested - not bad eh? It wasn't exactly unexpected as Great Britain were favourites but this year it is much more competitive, particularly in the individual competition.

Talking of which, despite spending all of last week telling us "I might not do it you know, I will try my absolute hardest but I may not win gold" he did, of course.

Gentleman is a very classy horse and it will take a brave bunch of judges to deny him the freestyle title on Thursday.

Lee was also temporarily deaf in one ear on Tuesday night, which must have affected his balance. He told me he is getting it sorted on Wednesday at the hospital but once again, his and the rest of the riders' talents never fail to amaze me.