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Ade Adepitan: 'When people see the Paralympics, they'll respect the athletes'
Barcelona :: Spain | 10 months ago
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This year's Paralympics will be on a par with the Olympics Look at the T54 wheelchair record for 5,000m and you'll see it's almost three minutes faster than the able-bodied record; or look at the world number-one wheelchair tennis player Stephane
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Paralympians throw down gauntlet
Sydney :: Australia | 10 months ago
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Just as we had in Sydney, the Brits have an expectation and a potential to have a great Games as well," Hellwig said. "So they should, but I'll just note ... there's a few Brits at the moment who are edging away from their obligations to talk about
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Bid for Lowell-area wheelchair basketball league
Chelmsford :: MA :: USA | 10 months ago
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For someone confined to a wheelchair and unable to drive, making it to and from Brockton for a basketball game could be nearly an all-day affair. So William Muse, who needs to take various modes of public transportation to get to a game, including on
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Shooting hoops without walking at disabilities awareness fair in Redwood City
Redwood City :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Click photo to enlarge Members of Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program demonstrate with able-bodied participants what it s like playing a game of wheelchair basketball during the Disabilities Awareness Fair at County Center Plaza in Redwood City
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Teenager Down's fencing dreams
Milton Keynes :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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Gabi Down dreams of wheelchair fencing success at Paralympics To her Year Nine classmates at Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes, Gabi Down is just another typical 14-year-old. She dislikes maths and likes PE, The Only Way Is Essex, her cat Wallace and
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SA Paralympic team named
Beijing :: China | 11 months ago
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Olympic House on Wednesday and was a glittering occasion as the names of the selected 62 athletes were revealed to the nation. The team is only slightly down on the 66 athletes that travelled to Beijing, China, the city which hosted the Paralympic
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Ex-racers shine on new wheels
Bentong :: Malaysia | 11 months ago
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Once upon a time, they were daredevils showing off their motorcycle skills and defying the law. Along the way, however, things went awry and some ended up with broken bones and crushed legs. Now, the stunts of the fallen Mat Rempit are of a different
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Lifter wants medal, sport for disabled Afghans
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 11 months ago
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Limping on his prosthetic leg as he crosses a barren room scattered with a motley collection of weights, powerlifter Mohammad Fahim Rahimi laments the poverty and neglect preventing the large number of disabled Afghans from pursuing sport. The 29-
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Black Like Me and Reality TV
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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Wolf Follow JewishJournal.com on When I watched the first segment of the new TV reality show Push Girls last Monday night on the Sundance Channel, I was taken in by the sheer chutzpah of the four young, sexy women profiled in the show, all of whom
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Burleson wheelchair bowler scores a perfect 300
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 12 months ago
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Tell us Shawn Beam struggled to explain how he felt about being the first person to bowl a perfect game freehand from a wheelchair in a sanctioned event. "It's kind of cool," said Beam, of Burleson. "I don't know what would be the best way to
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