Get ready for the rest of the Games

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Another week and the Games will be upon us again. The final preparations for the Paralympics are in place, from the venues, the torch relay, and me - note the new userpic. Olympic rings across the country are being replaced with the Paralympic agitos, but I haven't heard that we'll get agitos near us - we may not, as the stadium hosted Olympics events but we won't be hosting anything for the Paralympics. I read yesterday that London 2012 is the first time the Games have had dual branding to this degree, and it does feel like the Paralympics will come of age in its ancestral home. And I am looking forward to seeing Mandeville, I prefer the colour blue to the colour orange so I'm inclined to favour Mandeville over Wenlock slightly, but overall I prefer to see them as a double act. Not sure what sports I might end up a fan of, like with the Olympics I want to watch as many different sports as possible to immerse myself in the experience, but a work colleague's brother-in-law is on ParalympicsGB's wheelchair rugby team (he was at Beijing 2008 too) so I will be looking out for him and hope he has a good Games.