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National Midas touch
Sydney :: Australia | about 11 hours ago
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T HE Independent Sport Panel report, released last week, raises some important questions not only about the funding of sport but also, indirectly, about how Australians see themselves and the images we seek to convey about ourselves to the rest of the...
Tags: HE Independent Sport Panel, Australia, Sydney, Australian Olympic Committee, David Crawford, Paralympic sports, John Dowling Coates, Paralympics, Politics, Paralympic Games, Coates, allnews, Disabled sports, Sport in Australia, Politics of Australia, Jacquelin Magnay, AFL Commission, John Coates (sports administrator)
Athletes with intellectual disabilities will return to Paralympics
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The International Paralympic Committee has decided to once again allow athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete alongside athletes with physical disabilities in the Paralympic Games. The IPC voted in favour of the decision at its general assembly...
Tags: intellectual disability, Carla Qualtrough, paralympics games, special olympics, IPC, Canada, Ottawa, Paralympic sports, National Paralympic Committee, Summer Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee, Disability, Paralympics, Disabled sports, Paralympic Games, allnews, Social Issues
Learning disability ban overturned for London Olympics
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 3 days ago
Credibility 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
Inaugural Paralympic Committee representation
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 10 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
Athletes Gear Up For Paralympics In 2012
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility UK, Saturday August 29, 2009 Orla Chennaoui, Olympics correspondent Today marks exactly three years to the beginning of the London Paralympic Games. Team GB's Paralympic athletes at the opening ceremony in Beijing Seventeen days after the Olympic Games...
Tags: Paralympics, Chris Holmes
Canada hoping for top-three Paralympic showing
Vancouver :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility B.C. â There is little chance Canada will âownâ the 2010 Paralympic podium, not with Russian sure to be strip-mining the cross-country trails in the majestic Callaghan Valley of precious medals. But a top three medal standings finish, the target...
Tags: Conference Board of Canada, Hockey Canada, Vancouver, International Paralympic Committee, Canadian Paralympic Committee, Paralympics, olympic games, TransLinkâ, paralympics games
Eurosport, UK & Ireland: BT Sponsors Paralympic World Cup
Manchester :: ME :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility This year's event takes place in Manchester from May 20-25 and South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, one of the world's leading Paralympic athletes, is looking forward to it. Pistorius, who is now also a BT Ambassador, said: "The BT Paralympic World...
Tags: paralympics, games, Oscar Pistorius
Paralympic swimmer Marin Morrison, 18, realized her dream
Sammamish :: WA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Marin Morrison's dream to compete in the Beijing Olympics preceded her diagnosis of brain cancer in 2005...It overcame a grim setback four months before the 2008 games that made even her coach wonder if she would make it to China. The dream was realized...
Tags: paralympics, Marin Morrison, Beijing
Petitclerc named top female athlete
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
Credibility Chantal Petitclerc certainly knows how to go out with a bang. The 39-year-old wheelchair racer from Montreal, who has become the face of the Paralympic movement in Canada, won five gold medals and set three world records in September at the Beijing Paralympics....
Tags: olympics, beijing, paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc, Canada, Eric Lamaze
Petitclerc named Canada's top athlete
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
Credibility Canada's Chantal Petitclerc celebrates her fifth gold medal of the Paralympic Games in Beijing this past September. (Eugene Hoshiko Eugene/Associated Press) Wheelchair athlete Chantal Petitclerc added more hardware to her incredible career Tuesday.
Tags: paralympics, Chantal Petitclerc
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