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Gerrard Gosens has represented Australia in various sports for more than 30 years. He’s competed at three Paralympic Games and more than a dozen world championships — and climbed Everest, and danced with the stars, and launched a thriving business, and was awarded an OAM… the list goes on. There’s not much these para-triathlons can’t do—except look. He was completely blind all his life. One of the oldest members of the Australian team in Birmingham, Gosens will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the men’s PTVI triathlon. He told the ABC it would also be his last major international gathering. Gerrard Gosens ran the T11 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. ( Reuters ) Birmingham will be a unique and bitter first final The para-triathlon for athletes who use a wheelchair made its debut at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Birmingham will be the first visually impaired athlete to be able to compete at the event, and while Gosens is classified as PT

For some children, birthdays are very valuable to celebrate. Jessica Gowers can’t tell you whether her son Riley will make it to the age of 13, 18, or 21. He didn’t think they would see his seventh birthday in March. But, they did. Riley was born with CHARGE syndrome, a complex set of medical problems. Riley with Toy Story cake. ( Provided: Jessica Gowers ) Apart from heart problems, he was deaf, mute, and partially blind. “Riley was born in 2015, we were in the hospital for 11 months. 2016, six months, 2017, six months, 2018, dodging bullets. 2019, four months,” Ms Gowers said. With all the time in the hospital, it’s no wonder Miss Gowers doesn’t have time to bake. Or many other things for that matter. So he called Cake Angels, a team of 2,100 professional decorators across the country who donate incredible custom cakes to children with lifelong or life-limiting conditions. This is not your average banana cake with cream cheese icing. Cakes worth up to $600 The Australian Cake Angel