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Learning disability ban overturned for London Olympics
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 1 day ago
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A ban has been in place since the Sydney Games in 2000 when the Spanish paralympic basketball team admitted some of its players were not disabled. A fair and efficient classification is central to the integrity of paralympic sport, and the organisations...
Tags: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Paralympic Games, National Paralympic Committee, International Paralympic Committee, Philip Craven, Cheating at the Paralympic Games, Paralympics, Disabled sports, Paralympian, Social Issues, allnews, Disability, Paralympic sports
Adaptive Nordic team adapts to snow conditions
Vancouver :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Steamboat Springs The perils of an early season Nordic ski camp in Steamboat Springs came sharply into focus Friday morning for U.S...The team was scheduled to stage a late-morning time trial at the Steamboat Ski Touring Center. A week of careful preparations...
Tags: Canada, Vancouver, Miss Moneypenny, Paralympic Games, Howelsen Ski Area, Hospitality Recreation, Ski mountaineering, Ski touring, Ski
Wheelchair athlete gets state-of-the-art leg braces
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago
Credibility Gail, 16, was born with nerve damage, giving her limited use of her leg muscles...Last week she entered into a new phase of mobility when she got a set of braces from Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics in Frederick . Known as bionic leg braces, they have...
Tags: wheelchair basketball, leg braces, Gail Gaeng, Japan, Tōkyō, Dental braces, Paralympic Games, Basketball, Orthotics, Disabled sports, Paralympic sports, Wheelchair
Myanmar, Laos sign travel and tax treaties
Stockholm :: Sweden | 1 day ago
Credibility Thierry Henry's self-confessed handball to secure France a win over Ireland and a place in next year's World Cup has shot him to the top of sport's rogue's gallery, Australia's Daily Telegraph said Saturday...Swedish opera singer Elisabeth Soederstroem,...
Tags: Thierry Henry, Sweden, Stockholm, Boris Onishchenko, Summer Olympics, Rogue, Paralympic Games, Frederick Lorz, Diego Maradona, Cheating, allnews, Managua, Elisabeth Sￃﾶderstrￃﾶm, Nicaraguan revolution, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Ortega
Fresh election mooted
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 2 days ago
Credibility Holding a fresh election for the MCA was one of the issues discussed when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak held separate meetings with the two rival groups in the party. Najib met MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and his deputy Datuk Seri...
Tags: datuk seri, MCA, prime minister, najib tun, tun razak, seri najib, Saudi Arabia, fresh elections, Najib, paralympics movement, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Liow Tiong Lai, Chua Soi Lek, Najib Tun Razak, Barisan Nasional, Malaysian Chinese Association, Malaysian Chinese, Wee Ka Siong, Ong Tee Keat, Politics, Hakka Malaysians, Malay Malaysians, Muhyiddin Yassin, Premiership of Najib Tun Razak, Raja Petra Kamarudin, Malaysian Muslims, Abdul Razak Baginda, Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa, Murders, Paralympic Games, ASEAN, ASEAN ParaGames, Disabled sports, 1Malaysia, Social Issues
New study finds Pistorius gets boost from Cheetahs
Windhoek :: Namibia | 4 days ago
Credibility The prosthetic legs of double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius give the South African a 10-second advantage over a 400-meter race, according to a new study. Human performance researchers Peter Weyand of Southern Methodist University and Matthew Bundle...
Tags: Oscar Pistorius, Namibia, Windhoek, Prosthesis, Amputation, Artificial limb, Cheetah, Medical equipment, Prosthetics, Implants, Paralympic Games, allnews
Aussie Paralympian conquers jungle trek
Port Moresby :: Papua New Guinea | 5 days ago
Credibility Australian Paralympian Kurt Fearnley completed a grueling 96 kilometer (60 mile) crawl along a jungle trek on Wednesday, just weeks after taking the New York marathon wheelchair title. The three-time Paralympic gold-medalist, who was born without the...
Tags: Kokoda Track, Paralympian Kurt Fearnley, Kokoda Spirit, Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Paralympic Games, Year of birth missing, Kurt Fearnley, Paralympian, Kokoda, Geography of Papua New Guinea
Inaugural Paralympic Committee representation
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 8 days ago
Credibility For the first time, Jamaica is to be represented at the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Conference and General Assembly to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between November 19 and 21. Representing the island will be First vice-president of...
Tags: Jamaica Paralympic Association, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Paralympic Games, National Paralympic Committee, Disabled sports, Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
Tokyo Youth Para Games Cash incentives awarded to 6 special players
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 9 days ago
Credibility Federal Minister for Social Welfare and Special Education, Samina Khalid Ghurki here Thursday distributed Rs, 10,000 to each of 6 handicapped players for their excellent performance in Tokyo Asian Youth Para Games 2009...She said that her ministry supports...
Tags: para games, special persons, special education, youth para, Tokyo Asian, Pakistan, Karāchi, Samina Khalid Ghurki, Ghurki, Paralympic Games, Disabled sports, Pakistan Peoples Party, Punjabi people, allnews
Inspector calls again
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago
Credibility Oscar-nominated director of Billy Elliot and The Reader - first staged An Inspector Calls at York's Theatre Royal. The production, restaged in 1992 at the National Theatre in London, took a radical approach to the text, presenting the action in a house...
Tags: London Organising Committee, Damon Albarn, preliminary discussions, artistic director, london organisers, paralympic games, opening ceremony, organisers committee, Beijing
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