CANADIAN NORDIC SKIER BRIAN MCKEEVER HAS DEMANDED THAT BEIJING WILL BE HIS THE PREVIOUS WINTER PARALYMPICS REGARDLESS OF A SET OF EXPERIENCES EQUALLING SIXTEENTH GOLD AWARD.
The 42-year-old matched Germany's Gerd Schoenfelder's record as the most embellished male Winter Paralympian ever with his success in Saturday's outwardly hindered center distance crosscountry race.
It was his third gold in Beijing - this one accomplished with Graham Nishikawa after he was directed by Russell Kennedy in his initial two races.
"We are as yet aggressive, however I'm separating," said McKeever, who currently has 20 Paralympic awards.
"It's getting harder. There's significantly more silver hair and much more a throbbing painfulness. I think assuming we end up back here attempting to race in four years, we'll utilize strolling sticks.
"If not for great actual specialists, I wouldn't be remaining here, so I think the time has come. Consider it a delicate resigning, I need to disappear gradually.
"It will be great to relax a little and get out skiing more for entertainment only rather than as a task.
"We'll most likely be back, however presumably in really training and waxing jobs."
Day to day guide
Sport-by-sport results
Decoration table
Slalom fourth for GB's Fitzpatrick
McKeever, who has the degenerative eye condition Stargardt's sickness, has been one of the greats of the game since making his Games debut in Salt Lake City in 2002 and is unbeaten in individual Winter Paralympic races since Turin in 2006.
He and sibling Robin, who went about as his aide up to 2010, featured in a high-profile promotion crusade for vehicle organization Toyota which originally broadcasted during last month's Super Bowl.
However, he made light of the fight over arriving at Schonfelder's record.
"To get directly to the point, it doesn't mean something damn," McKeever giggled. "Assuming the records end up coming, fantastic. However, that was never the concentration."
McKeever could break Schoenfelder's imprint in Sunday's group transfer - an occasion where Canada won bronze four years prior.
Norway's Ragnhild Myklebust actually holds the generally Paralympic record with her 27 decorations, including 22 golds, which she won from 1988-2002.
Notwithstanding McKeever's gold, Canada stay behind Ukraine in the race for second spot behind China in the general decoration table.
Oleksandra Kononova kept Ukraine ahead with triumph in the ladies' center distance standing race.
The 31-year-old had won biathlon gold before in the opposition and beat Canada's Natalie Wilkie by 28.5secs with her partners Iryna Bui and Liudmyla Liashenko in third and fourth.
Somewhere else, American Oksana Experts, who was brought into the world in Ukraine yet embraced by an American lady when she was seven, made it six awards from her six individual occasions - two golds and four silvers.
Aces completed behind China's Yang Hongqiong who finished a full go-around of wins in the situated division.
However, another competitor pursuing a 6th decoration in Beijing, Ukraine's Oksana Shyshkova, couldn't add to her three golds and two silvers as she came fourth in the outwardly weakened occasion - a race won by 15-year-old German Linn Kazmaier.
China's wheelchair twisting group, the reigning champs, beat Sweden 8-3 in the last to guarantee the host country's eighteenth gold and 58th by and large award of the games.
blogpay
Total Comments: 0