Five-time gold medallist Ellie Simmonds joined fellow Paralympic legends at Hemel Hempstead’s Snow Centre to celebrate the start of the Winter Paralympics and National Lottery players' key role in funding British athletes in Beijing.
ParalympicsGB are taking their most competitive team to a Winter Games, with more athletes looking to achieve personal best performances in more sports than ever before.
Paralympian Jon-Allan Butterworth and British Paralympic Association vice chairman David Clarke, who was captain of Britain’s Football 5-a-side team and competed at London 2012, were also on hand to join in the celebration.
