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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
S Jacqui Freney has won her fourth gold medal of the Paralympics as the cheating claims row involving sprinter Oscar Pistorius overshadowed the action. World record-holder Freney, 20, took gold in a new Paralympic best of 1min 9.39sec in the S7 100m...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs Everton's defeat against West Brom gives us the opportunity to back them to win the Premier League ... by Gareth Purnell 03 September 2012 01:55 PM It might seem pretty bizarre to be betting against...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Ellie Simmonds breaks own 200m IM world record 2012 Paralympics Ellie Simmonds broke her own world record in the SM6 200m individual medley heats as she targets a second gold of the Paralympic Games. The 17-year-old won S6 400m gold on Saturday, and...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
With the track events completed, the squad has certainly performed as we would have expected them to and won 15 medals, compared with 12 in Beijing...Before Beijing, Australia was the powerhouse when it came to Paralympic cycling. Since then, Britain'...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs It might seem pretty bizarre to be betting against goals in a game involving Swansea a team that h... by Gareth Purnell 01 September 2012 01:01 AM Michael Bisping is a man on a mission. As his date...
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The Courier-Mail
| 9 months ago
Freney is fast becoming a legend of the London Paralympics, after the Northern Rivers sprinter led a flurry of medals at the pool on Day 4. Freney made it three golds from three events after she captured the 200m IM SM7 in world record time in the...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs It might seem pretty bizarre to be betting against goals in a game involving Swansea a team that h... by Gareth Purnell 01 September 2012 01:01 AM Michael Bisping is a man on a mission. As his date...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Marc Woods 2012 Paralympics With a total of 12 medals - two gold, eight silver and two bronze - after three of the 10 days of competition, I think the Great Britain Paralympic swimming team are generally doing well at London 2012. There have been...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The London Paralympics 2012 is fast approaching its midway point and as with the London Olympics 2012, the hosts are making a late charge up the table, with excellence in track cycling and swimming leading the way... again not unlike fellow athletes...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
The 55-year-old Spaniard Sebastian Rodriguez saw off much younger swimmers including 15-year-old Brit Andrew Mullen to take silver in the S5 50m freestyle, his 13th Paralympic medal...Rodriguez was sentenced to 84 years in prison in 1985, when a...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs It might seem pretty bizarre to be betting against goals in a game involving Swansea a team that h... by Gareth Purnell 01 September 2012 01:01 AM Michael Bisping is a man on a mission. As his date...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
A day to remember for Mr and Mrs Storey, and another happy day to savour for Britain in the Velodrome. Sarah Storey has two golds out of two and will now switch her attentions to the road, where she will pursue two more. She was preceded yesterday to...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Paralympics Action On Day Three Teenage swimming sensation Ellie Simmonds has dramatically defended her Paralympic title by smashing the world record. The 17-year-old had the Aquatics Centre in raptures as she touched home ahead of rival Victoria...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 9 months ago
Great Britain's Ellie Simmonds with her gold medal and Victoria Arlen of the USA with her silver after their S6 400m freestyle final. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP As she drove to the Olympic Park, Ellie Simmonds looked up at the giant advertising...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
Paralympic hero Sarah Storey wins her second cycling gold of London 201.... and we're only on day three! EST, 1 September 2012 Sarah Storey stormed to her second victory of London 2012 and her ninth Paralympic gold medal in the velodrome today. The...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Sprinter Richard Whitehead has powered to gold on the track, breaking his own world record to take victory in the 200-metres T42 final as ParalympicsGB moved to second in the medal table. The 36-year-old double amputee stormed home with enough time...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
The 34-year-old Briton, who won gold in the individual pursuit, took the crown in a time of 36.997 seconds. The USA's Jennifer Schuble claimed silver and China's Jianping Ruan took the bronze. Storey will now concentrate her efforts on the road as...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
China is leading the tally with 13 gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze medals. Australia and Ukraine are in the second and third spot with 19 and 16 medals respectively. Russia`s Margarita Goncharova won the first gold of the athletics in F37/38 long jump.
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Paralympics South Africa's Oscar Pistorius is the biggest star in Paralympic sport after winning three gold medals in Beijing four years ago and going on to compete at the Olympic Games last month. He returns to London targeting four gold medals at...
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The Sun UK
| 9 months ago
In the velodrome, pedal ace Mark Colbourne, 42 who broke his back in a paragliding accident struck gold in the men's C1 3km individual pursuit. The GB cyclists' great Games continued when war hero Jon-Allan Butterworth won a silver five years after...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Caption competition News in pictures Sport blogs It might seem pretty bizarre to be betting against goals in a game involving Swansea a team that h... by Gareth Purnell 01 September 2012 01:01 AM Michael Bisping is a man on a mission. As his date...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Paralympians from around the world lined up to pay tribute to London's charged atmosphere and packed stands, as Britain won another string of medals but had things far from all their own way on a day of high drama on and off the...
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National Public Radio
| 9 months ago
Less than one year after being blinded by an explosion in Afghanistan, U.S. swimmer Bradley Snyder has won a gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle at the 2012 Paralympics. He also set a new Paralympic record during a qualifying heat earlier Friday...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
Hannah Cockcroft won Britain's first Paralympic gold on the track last night in a stunning display that saw her smash the Paralympic record. The 20-year-old wheelchair racer nicknamed Hurricane Hannah' and one of the faces' of London 2012 stormed to...
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Fiji Times
| 9 months ago
Kieran Modra described his achievement of a third straight Paralympic pursuit title as "awe-inspiring" just nine months after breaking his neck in an horrific crash. The cyclists led the way on the opening day of the London Games with Australia...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Freney won the S7 50m butterfly event to go with the 100m backstroke gold she scooped on Day One recording an Oceania record in winning by 0.87 seconds from Canada's Brianna Nelson. Ellie Cole was similarly dominant in women's S9 100m backstroke...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Great Britain's Mark Colbourne and Hannah Cockroft were the toast of the Paralympic Games as they each claimed gold on day two of the London 2012 Games. Colbourne, who won silver in the 1km time trial on day one, went one better in the C1 pursuit,...
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Wellington Dominion
| 9 months ago
New Zealand has added two silvers and a bronze to the Paralympic medal tally. Swimmer Sophie Pascoe has won her second medal, a silver in the S10 50m freestyle, while Mary Fisher also took silver in the S11 100m freestyle. After taking gold in the...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Paralympic gold medallist Mark Colbourne a 'great role model' Mark Colbourne has won a gold and silver medal in the velodrome Cyclist Mark Colbourne has been hailed a "great role model" after he set a new world record to win Wales' first gold medal...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 9 months ago
British Paralympic track cyclist Jody Cundy was on Friday denied a restart in the final of men's C4/5 1km time-trial, leaving the 2008 champion from Beijing distraught. Cundy had been looking to double the host nation's gold medal tally at the...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Jonathan Fox at the start of his heat at the Aquatics Centre. Lord Coe said the atmosphere there on Thursday night was better than during the Olympics. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images The International Paralympic Committee has said it is...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
Cycling The women's tandem 1km time trial has just started at the velodrome, and Peter Walker is there...Turnham's degenerative sight condition means she's been with Libby for six years...When we go to the velodrome she just lies down by my chair in...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Britain's Paralympians are aiming high on the second day of the Games after a seven-medal haul in the first 24 hours. Friday's medal hopefuls include Hannah Cockroft, a double world champion wheelchair racer, who is going for gold in the women's T34...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The first day of the London 2012 Paralympics proved to be a good one for ParalympicGB athletes who managed to pick up a decent tally of medals. Sarah Storey British cyclist Mark Colbourne picked up the first medal for his nation by claiming silver in...
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Africa Headlines
| 9 months ago
The 33 year-old did it in style by breaking the world record in the men's 48 category by lifting 178 kg, which is over three times his body weight. This news will make Nigerians heave a sigh of relief, as the team Nigeria, who participated in the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
David Gray Israel claimed its first medal of the Paralympic Games in the opening day of competition on Thursday, with swimmer Inbal Pezaro winning a bronze in the 50-meter freestyle S5 class final. The 25-year-old Pezaro entered the Games with five...
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Adelaide Now
| 9 months ago
S avalanche of medals is set to continue today after Matt Cowdrey received an 11th-hour boost on his road to Paralympic immortality...The fortunes continued in the pool, spearheaded by Skinners Head sprinter Jacqui Freney, whose gold in the 100m...
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Mail Online UK
| 9 months ago
30 August 2012 London 2012 poster girl Sarah Storey took Britain's first gold medal in the Velodrome yesterday, kick-starting the home team's Paralympic medal rush. Such was the superiority of the 34-year-old that she actually caught and overtook...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
One might imagine having no arms to be an insurmountable setback, in a backstroke race against opponents that do have them...London had its first taste of Paralympic competition yesterday, and it proved a compelling appetiser of what is to follow in...
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Russia Today
| 9 months ago
The number of Russian participants at London 2012 Paralympics will increase as the country's disabled athletes are to compete in 12 of the 20 disciplines at the upcoming Games...Savchenko triumphed in the same discipline in the women's competition,...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 9 months ago
Sarah Storey won the eighth gold of her 20-year career to take Britain's first success on the opening day of the Paralympics. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Union flags fluttered, noise levels rose, royal cheerleaders assumed their customary...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Jonathan Fox wins British gold in the pool 2012 Paralympics Jonathan Fox claimed Britain's first swimming gold medal of the London Paralympics in the S7 100m backstroke. Fox, 21, who has cerebral palsy, set a world record in the heats and has long...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
Huot picked up his ninth career Paralympic swimming gold by breaking his own world record with a time of two minutes 10.01 seconds. The 28-year-old won four bronze medals in Beijing four years ago.
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New Zealand Infotech Weekly
| 9 months ago
Princess of the pool Sophie Pascoe has defended her S10 200m individual medley Paralympic title with a crushing six-second victory in this morning's (NZT) final in London. The 19-year-old from Christchurch broke the world record in her heat overnight...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
Suggested Topics Sarah Storey won Great Britain's first gold medal of the XIV Paralympics with a supreme victory in the women's C5 three-kilometres individual pursuit at the London 2012 velodrome. After Mark Colbourne won silver in the men's C1-2-3...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
The 42-year-old from Tredegar, making his Paralympic Games debut, won silver in the C1-3 one kilometre time trail in one minute 08.471 seconds. China's Li Zhang Yu won the gold with a world record of 1:05.021, with Germany's Thomas Graf winning...
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The independent
| 9 months ago
China's Zhang Cuiping won the first gold medal of the London Paralympics as the Shooting got underway at the Royal Artillery Barracks today. Zhang set a new world record in the women's R2-10 metres air rifle standing SH1 and the 24-year-old was a...
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The Observer
| 9 months ago
Swimming Victoria Arlen of the US is waiting to discover if she is going to be able to participate in the Paralympic Games, after she was found to be non-eligible for her chosen sport. Arlen, 17, holds world records for S6 100m and 400m freestyle.
