ARmy Rumour SErvice

**maninblack** · 19-06-2012, 07:47

I have just heard that the plan for Ben Parkinson to carry the Olympic Torch through Doncaster this week will have to be scrapped.

Despite him having two prosthetic legs some bloody idiot has asigned him a stretch of the relay with a hill despite Doncaster being generally as flat as The Netherlands.

Ben had been training to use his legs and was determined to walk rather than use a chair but the hill is likely to be one challenge too far at this stage of his recovery.

**chrisg46** · 19-06-2012, 07:49

Cant they swap with a flat bit?

**The_Snail** · 19-06-2012, 07:50

Originally Posted by maninblack

I have just heard that the plan for Ben Parkinson to carry the Olympic Torch through Doncaster this week will have to be scrapped.

Despite him having two prosthetic legs some bloody idiot has asigned him a stretch of the relay with a hill despite Doncaster being generally as flat as The Netherlands.

Ben had been training to use his legs and was determined to walk rather than use a chair but the hill is likely to be one challenge too far at this stage of his recovery.

BBC News - London 2012: Ex-soldier's Olympic torch relay in doubt

**Pigshyt_Freeman** · 19-06-2012, 07:57

Has the French Secret Service dirty tricks squad infiltrated the Olympic PR team, d'you think?

**Koschei** · 19-06-2012, 08:14

Originally Posted by rearswag

How demeaning , Ben have worked hard to achieve to walk with the Olympic torch .

Forcing Ben to use aids to fit in with the organisers decision because they changed the route is disgusting

**** off, Chubb.

**postman_twit** · 19-06-2012, 08:22

Surely a re-jig on the legs (no pun intended) is the easiest way to resolve this??? Either that or sabotage it on the day. If only an ex-squaddie was in charge of making sure the right people get dropped off at the right place!!!!

**jim30** · 19-06-2012, 08:30

If the ta thread is anything to go by, if the forces were organising it then the mt with ben on would turn up 45 minutes after cutoff, but a good few hours before the torch arrived. They'd then be sent home to see if they could get it done properly the next day.