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Athletes Gear Up For Paralympics In 2012
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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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 | 9 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 | 10 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
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
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