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Petitclerc named top female athlete
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
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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 | about 1 year 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
The Canberra Times, Australia: Mauler on wheels revs up Wallabies
Port Macquarie :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Lote Tuqiri or Stirling Mortlock, but at another level of the rugby code he is the ultimate world beater. For anyone who watched the ABC's excellent television coverage of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Batt was the Australian standout. It took only...
Tags: rugby, beijing, paralympics, Ryley Batt
BizJournals: CHINA BLOG: Did the 2008 Olympics change China at all?
Hong Kong :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Puget Sound Business Journal Staff Writer Steve Wilhelm is traveling in China on a fellowship with the Hong Kong Journalism Fellowship from the East-West Center and Better Hong Kong Foundation...The Beijing Olympics may be over, but Chinese people are...
Tags: olympics, olympic, beijing olympics, beijing olympic, paralympics, the games, allnews, 2008, allnews
Wheelchair Fencing: HK fencers dominate
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility I'm very happy I made it," said 24-year-old Yu, a first year post-graduate student majoring in sports administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Bronze went to Yu's teammate Fan Pui-shan, who beat Sabrina Poignet of France. Today, the last...
Tags: gold, medals, bronze, paralympics, silver, men, olympics
Kiwi Paralympian just misses medal in 800m
Christchurch :: New Zealand | about 1 year ago
Credibility New Zealand Paralympic team captain Tim Prendergast finished his campaign at the Beijing Paralympics without a medal after coming sixth in the T13 800m. Although sixth, Prendergast was in a group of five runners who all crossed within under a second...
Tags: paralympics
Family's love proves more valuable than gold
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Athens Paralympics boccia gold medalist finished sixth individually and eighth in pairs in Beijing. Gauthier, who suffers from cerebral palsy, is married and has a 15-year-old foster son. He met his wife, Sarah Douglas, when he was looking for a new...
Tags: paralympics
Haider Ali - Pakistan's unsung Paralympic Medalist
Haider Ali one of Pakistan four athletes who were participating in the Beijing Paralympic Games this year. Haider Ali has been featured earlier where he was a gold medalist in Kuala Lumpur Asian Paralympic Games and this time around he bagged a bronze...
Tags: Olympics, Paralympics
Swiss Frei becomes second road cyclist with double golds
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Swiss Heinz Frei became second cyclist at the Beijing Paralympic Games to win two gold medals after taking the men's HC B class road race here on Sunday. After winning Friday's individual time trial, the 50-year-old edged out four opponents after...
Tags: paralympics, race, medals, men
Leek leads Beijing medal charge
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 year ago
Credibility Peter Leek has become the man to catch in the race for individual medals at the Paralympic Games. A silver in the 400m has taken his tally to six for the Games – two gold, three silver and a bronze – while Australia has 49 medals overall. Versatile Leek...
Tags: paralympics, gold, silver, gold medal, competition, race, bronze, olympics, allnews, china
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