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Intl news (23 news)
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AZERBAIJAN PARALYMPIANS TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL
SWIMMING TOURNAMENT
 Organization of
Asia-Pacific News Agencies - 2010-06-14 08:35
Baku, June 14 (AzerTAc). The
Azerbaijan swimming team will be competing in the 24th international Germany
paralympic championship to be held in Berlin, June 16-21.
The Azerbaijan swimming team will be competing in the 24th international
Germany paralympic championship to be held in Berlin, June 16-21.The
team includes Sergey Plujnikov, Kenan Pirizade, Natalya Filina and
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Goalball is premier team game for the blind
The Seattle
Times - 2010-06-14 08:15
The players wear eye patches. At
either end of a nearly silent indoor basketball court in Seattle, they crouch
on hands and knees like people crawling around in the dark â?' which in a
real sense, they are.
Goalball is one of 22 sports played at the international Paralympic
Games and the premiere team game for blind athletes, the only one created
specifically for them....At the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing, the...
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O'Rourke helps set Irish record
Irish
Independent - 2010-06-14 07:31
Ireland's women's sprint relay
team, including Derval O'Rourke, clinched qualifying for the upcoming
European Championships with a new national 4x100m record of 44.27 seconds in
Geneva.
Elsewhere, Paralympic hero Jason Smyth (City of Derry) ran a new
Northern Ireland 100m record of 10.32 at the NI Championships, which moves
him up to second spot behind Paul Hession on the all-time Irish list.
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Media Flash - Media News & Job Directory
Scoop -
2010-06-14 05:58
Article: Media Flash Media Flash
and Australian Media Job Directory Monday, October 16, 2000 With Flash
Updates at www.mediaflash.com.au
E-Mail: mediaflash@yahoo.
Sue has stayed on as an unpaid volunteer for the Paralympics.
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Disabled athletes find adventure at Sparks Marina
Reno
Gazette-Journal - 2010-06-14 05:22
Mario Soto, 12, has been diagnosed
with cerebral palsy and autism, but that didn?t stop him from climbing into a
harness and scaling a 25-foot rock wall at the Sparks Marina today.
Mario Soto, 12, has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and autism, but
that didn?t stop him from climbing into a harness and scaling a 25-foot rock
wall at the Sparks Marina today.Soto, a student at Marvin Piccolo
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Sales thanks â??silent armyâ??
Tillsonburg
News - 2010-06-14 03:40
Darda Sales is a fan of myriad if
mysterious musical genres. 'I can sing along with any song on the radio, but
don't ask me who sings it,' said the Canadian Paralympic champion swimmer
recently during a speaking engagement in Tillsonburg.
'I can sing along with any song on the radio, but don't ask me who sings
it,' said the Canadian Paralympic champion swimmer recently during a
speaking engagement in Tillsonburg.She knows one tune however, initially
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Dame Kelly HolmesLegacy Trust ...
Tri247.com -
2010-06-14 03:32
Tuesday (8th June) saw the launch
of the SUSO Open Water Children's Triathlon which Dame Kelly Holmes' Charity
has been chosen to partner.
Dorney Lake is also the venue for the Rowing and Kayak events in the
Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
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London 2012 Olympics: A big business spectacle
Socialist Party
- 2010-06-14 01:57
IN 2012 the Olympics and Paralympics
come to east London. On show will be the world's elite sportsmen and women,
flexing their muscles and straining their sinews in state-of-the-art stadia.
IN 2012 the Olympics and Paralympics come to east London....That
includes a projected £400 million from ten million tickets - eight million
for the Olympics, two million for the Paralympics.
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DeBI showcases a wave of change
Express
TravelWorld - 2010-06-14 00:48
The recently held Destination
Britain & Ireland (DeBI) in Dubai from May 10-13, 2010 showcased a host
of opportunities that can be sold to travellers, especially with the 2012
Olympics in London fast approaching.
'India is the most important source market amongst BRIC region' Eyeing
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the United Kingdom is going
aggressive to market itself across the world.
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Walker is armed with his teeth
Columbia Daily
Tribune - 2010-06-14 00:06
Lack of limb is no barrier for
archer. Photo by Joshua A. Bickel | Buy this photo Carroll Walker pulls back
his bow during the archery competition at the Missouri State Senior Games
yesterday.
Paralympic Team, won more than 20 indoor and outdoor state
titles and taken five national championships.
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News: Deloitte Ride Across Britain underway
Road.cc -
2010-06-13 23:11
The inaugural Deloitte Ride Across
Britain charity ride from John O?Groats to Land?s End is underway, led by
Olympic gold medallist Jamie Cracknell, who dreamt up the ride as a way to
raise more than £1 million for ParalympicsGB.
ParalympicsGB.Among the 600 riders who set off on their 1000-mile
adventure yesterday (13 June) was paralympian and national track
pursuit champion Sarah Storey, who describes her first day in the saddle.
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GB Para-cyclists shine in Spain
BBC -
2010-06-13 20:27
Morris won a gold medal at the
2008 Beijing Paralympics Great Britain's Para-cyclists warmed up for August's
World Road Championships with eight medals, including six golds, at the World
Cup event in Segovia.
Morris won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics Great
Britain's Para-cyclists warmed up for August's World Road Championships with
eight medals, including six golds, at the World Cup event in Segovia.There
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Polish Special Needs Institution honors Sheikha
Fariha
Kuwait News
Agency - 2010-06-13 19:28
KUWAIT, June 13 (KUNA) -- Polish
Disabled and Special Needs Support Institution in Krakow, south of Poland,
awarded here Sunday Chairwoman of the
Further, Sheikha Fariha inaugurated at the center's headquarters the 13th Paralympic
Tournament of the Disabled Children and Youth and donated a big sum of money
for the institution.
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Wendy Ladner-Beaudry honoured by B.C. Sports Hall
of Fame
Calgary Herald
- 2010-06-13 19:16
There was a reason Wendy
Ladner-Beaudryâ??s inclusion in an exhibit of female sports boosters was
celebrated last among three new honorees at a ceremony at the B.C. Sports
Hall of Fame and Museum Thursday evening.
Born with an immovable left ankle, commonly called a club foot, she would
have been in the Paralympics but back in those days, there was no such
thing....Olafsson said one of her greatest joys was carrying the paralympic...
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Lots to learn from Olympic Games
Hamilton
Spectator - 2010-06-13 17:40
The 2015 Pan Am Games can take the
lessons of Vancouver 2010 and leverage them uniquely in a multi-cultural
setting, Toronto 2015 CEO Ian Troop says. Troop was responding to an
independent report citing the legacies of the recent Winter Games.
It cited: * Benefits from immediate athletic performance that could carry
over to future excellence at events like Toronto 2015. * A new level of
awareness for Paralympic athletes. * Sports and
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Olympic Games and Politics: Two Sides of the Same
Coin
Suite101.com -
2010-06-13 17:35
Former President of the International
Olympic Committee (IOC), Juan Antonio Samaranch, writing in Thesis,
Diplomatic heights are often scaled in
The building, planning, logistics, controversies gather increasing
momentum until the two and a half weeks of Games, followed by the Paralympics.
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PARALYMPICS: IRELAND'S PADRAIC MORAN WINS GOLD AT
BOCCIA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Department of
Arts Ireland - 2010-06-13 16:47
Mary Hanafin, TD, Minister for
Tourism, Culture and Sport today congratulated Padraic Moran on becoming
World Champion when winning the Gold Medal in
This is a great victory for Padraic and hopefully this is just a stepping
stone to next year?s World Cup in Belfast and the Paralympic Games in
London, 2012.
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Legner and Peifer into Slovakia Open final
International
Tennis Federation - 2010-06-13 16:07
Martin Legner and Nicolas Peifer
will face each other in Sunday's men's main draw singles final at the
Slovakia Open, part of the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour, after winning
Saturday's main draw doubles final in Bratislava.
Having concentrated on his university studies since the Beijing Paralympics,
Wiksrom showed the kind of form he is capable of as he snatched the second
set to force a decider, but second seed Peifer
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Vancouver shows athletes must come first, claims
Munich 2018 leader
Inside the
Games - 2010-06-13 15:26
By Duncan Mackay British Sports
Internet Writer of the Year June 12 - Vancouver showed that for an Olympics
and Paralympics to be successful the
Vancouver showed that for an Olympics and Paralympics to be
successful the. ...needs of athletes need to be at the top of the agenda, Munich
2018 chief executive Willy Bogner (pictured) has claimed.
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Smyth breaks NI 100 metres record
BBC -
2010-06-13 13:22
Jason Smyth has already qualified
for this year's European Championships Sprinter Jason Smyth set a new
Northern Ireland record of 10.32 seconds for the 100 metres at the Northern
Ireland Championships at the Antrim Forum. Smyth took 0.
Turnbull won the 1500m title 45 minutes later although it was a pedestrian
race with the 31-year-old kicking clear to win in 4:04.69 ahead of his
team-mate and Beijing Paralympics gold medallist Michael
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Workout for women a big hit
BCLocalNews.com
- 2010-06-13 11:33
They may be wearing pink boxing
gloves, but that doesn?t mean they hit like girls.
There?s a lawyer, a cop, a Paralympian, a doctor and an orchestra
musician, to name just a few.
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Para-cycling win for Australian duo
The Australian
- 2010-06-13 10:56
QUEENSLAND'S Bryce Lindores and
pilot Sean Finning from Victoria today sprinted home to win the men's tandem
road race at the Spanish round of the para-cycling World Cup in Segovia.
Blind cyclist Lindores, 23, claimed a bronze medal in the pursuit on the
track at the Paralympic Games in Beijing but for the past 12 months
has been paired with 2006 Commonwealth Games points race gold medallist
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Woodlands airman earns medals in first Warrior
Games
Conroe Courier
- 2010-06-13 10:00
Air Force 2nd Lt. Ryan P. McGuire,
center helps the Air Force team take the bronze medal in the wheelchair
volleyball tournament during the inaugural Warrior Games in Colorado Springs,
Colo. He is the son of Steven and Debra McGuire, of The Woodlands.
The games were an introduction to official paralympic sports for
the athletes as well as building camaraderie and raising general awareness of
paralympic sports.
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