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So the Olympic Games - and, of course, the Paralympics - are heading to , following this morning's exciting announcement from Singapore. Here in the Ouch office, we were sitting on the edge of our seats as we watched the coverage, and that last bit when the Olympic anthem was sung dreadfully out of tune and seemed to go on for ages was almost too much for our shredded nerves to bear.

Somebody sent an excited email round our office minutes after the announcement was made. The subject line read, with seemingly no sense of irony, "LONDON 2012 - it's coming home!!!" And there I was thinking that Athens was the home of the Olympics. Of course, if they'd said that the Paralympics were coming home, they would have been right, since the first 'Games for the Paralysed' (snappy title there, thanks) were held at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in 1948. It coincided with that year's London Olympics, which took place at White City on the site of the Ouch office (not that the Ouch office was there at the time because - er, oh, you know what I mean).

The sporting trivia fans out there can read more fascinating Paralympic facts like that one in Ouch's 25 things you never knew about the Paralympics.

Meanwhile, for more on today's news, check out the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s website, where they've got from Paralympic stars like Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and Danny Crates. And if you're wondering what the massive building projects to cater for the Olympics and Paralympics will mean to you, check out this from last year, which reveals some of the accessibility plans for the city. Crippled Monkey is already looking forward to London's fully accessible public transport system with a huge sense of anticipation. *Cough*