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Well there are few words to explain on Saturday night apart from saying 'He was robbed'.

David did everything right. He had confidence, and he figured out that the best way to run the race, was to go to the front and control it, and finish with devastating speed.

He called it his 'bogey' event, and he destroyed that myth with a perfectly executed race. As he came off the track that he had never won an 800m race at this level, and thanks to the Australians, he still hasn't.

Little did he know that just a few hours after the ecstasy of winning, he would be left devastated because of a protest.

A chance encounter with has given Britain's John Stubbs a new zest for life - and a Paralympic gold medal.

He and 20-year-old team-mate and fellow Paralympic debutant Danielle Brown lit up the with some sparkling arrows to add to Great Britain's medal tally in Beijing in the individual compound events, with team-mate Mel Clarke managing a bronze.

Back in 1989, Stubbs, now 43, was involved in a road traffic accident and was twice given his last rites.

As a result of the accident he lost his leg and admits that afterwards he went through a torrid time.