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Handikappidrott, Sverige (2 news)
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Ryttar-OS 2010: Bob Ellis bygger hoppbanorna
 Hästmagazinet -
2010-06-20 00:36
Britten Bob Ellis kommer att vara
banbyggare vid hopningen under Ryttar-OS i London 2012.
Bob has proved his talent as a course designer at the top level of the
sport and it is wonderful that he is being given the opportunity to showcase
that talent on home turf at the Olympic and Paralympic equestrian
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Stor uppslutning vid handikappsspel i Kil
Nya
Wermlands-Tidningen - 2010-06-19 16:42
HANDIKAPPIDROTT För första gången
arrangerades Svenska ungdomsspelen i handikappidrott utanför Sveriges två
största städer. Skådeplatsen var Sannerudsvallen i Kil, det var stor
uppslutning bland både föräldrar och tävlande.
HANDIKAPPIDROTT För första gången arrangerades Svenska
ungdomsspelen i handikappidrott utanför Sveriges två största städer.
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Intl news (31 news)
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Golden girl Lauren Woolstencroft to retire, going
out on top
Vancouver Sun -
2010-06-20 08:35
VANCOUVER â?' Skier Lauren
Woolstencroft, whose domination of Paralympic Games slopes reached a pinnacle
in 2010 when she won five gold medals, is expected to announce her retirement
from the sport on Thursday.
Skier Lauren Woolstencroft, whose domination of Paralympic Games
slopes reached a pinnacle in 2010 when she won five gold medals, is expected
to announce her retirement from the sport on Thursday.The 28-year-old
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UK CAA: sustaining improvements in NATS'
performance and financial resilience...
Airport
Information.com - 2010-06-20 08:21
The UK Civil Aviation Authority
has published for consultation its price control proposals for the En Route
part of NATSâ?? air traffic control business (NERL) for Control Period 3
(CP3), which will run for four years from 2011 to 2014.
NERL will also be required to meet service quality standards during the
period of the Olympics and Paralympics when several thousand
additional flights are expected.
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Wheelchair players hit town
Carolina Weekly
Newspapers Group - 2010-06-20 08:07
About a dozen Olympic champions
will be wheeling around Mooresville this weekend, as members of the two-time
defending champion USA National women?s
This is very important for us.? The games are a precursor to the 2012
Olympics and Paralympic Games, which will take place in London....This
is about a world championship.? Kiley will be serving as the head coach on a
team that returns eight of the players who were part of the 2008 team that
won gold medals in the Beijing Paralympics...
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Watertown to be representedin Miss Connecticut
Pageant
Middlefield
Town Times - 2010-06-20 08:01
WATERTOWN - Five young women from
Watertown, including sisters Lisa Marie Nemense and Nicole Nemense, are some
of 35 contestants statewide who are vying for college scholarships and the
titles of Miss Connecticut and Connecticut's Outstanding Teen 2010.
She is proud to say that the disabled athlete that she works with
has won a gold medal every season they have worked together.
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Smyth records lifetime best
Drogheda
Independent - 2010-06-20 07:26
ATHLETICS: Jason Smyth, a double
gold medallist in the Paralympics in Beijing two years ago, won a thrilling
100m for Ireland on the opening day of the European Team Championship, League
One, at the Puskas Memorial Stadium, Hungary yesterday.
Jason Smyth, a double gold medallist in the Paralympics in Beijing
two years ago, won a thrilling 100m for Ireland on the opening day of the
European Team Championship, League One, at the Puskas
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Inspiring Fijians for NZ tour
Fiji Times -
2010-06-20 06:49
FIJI Paralympic Commi-ttee
officials are impre-ssed with the interest shown by players for the upcoming
Under-16 rugby tour to Auckland. Trials were held in Suva and Lautoka
yesterday with almost 50 players turning up at the two centres.
FIJI Paralympic Commi-ttee officials are impre-ssed with the
interest shown by players for the upcoming Under-16 rugby tour to Auckland.
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News 'N' Views
Sunday Observer
- 2010-06-20 06:45
Organisers of the 2012 London
Olympics have unveiled their mascots Wenlock and Mandeville - creatures
supposedly fashioned from droplets of steel used to build the stadium.
where the Paralympics were founded, will become very familiar in
the next two years.
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Danberg relaxes, sets world record in discus
Miami Herald -
2010-06-20 05:29
Working with University of Miami
track & field assistant coach Cheree Hicks has made a difference for
Cooper City's Scott Danberg, a discus thrower competing in the U.S.
Paralympics Track & Field National Championships this weekend in Miramar.
Paralympics Track & Field National Championships this
weekend in Miramar.Hicks proudly watched her athlete set a world record
Friday night in the discus F40 (denotes field event/dwarfism) by throwing
32.26 meters.
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GB para-cyclists triumph
First News -
2010-06-20 03:13
Great British para-cyclists won
eight medals at the World Cup event in Segovia. Great British para-cyclists
won eight medals, including six golds, at the World Cup event in Segovia.
The Para-Cycling World Cup in Spain, which is the first chance for
cyclists to earn qualification points towards the 2012 London Paralympics,
saw two golds each for Beijing Paralympic champions David Stone and
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Mendoza wins men's wheelchair race; Callahan takes
women's title
Superior
Telegram - 2010-06-20 02:46
Winning the Grandma?s Marathon
men?s wheelchair race wasn?t the first priority for Saul Mendoza and Rafael
Jiminez. Both were more interested in their times.
Jiminez of Spain finished 11th at the 2008 Paralympic Games in
Beijing, 18 places ahead of Mendoza, but couldn?t stay up with him today.
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Kenyans sweep Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon
Superior
Telegram - 2010-06-20 02:44
Stephen Muange of Kenya won this
morning?s Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon, narrowing missing an eight-year
course record by 5 seconds. Muange, 28, who lives and trains in Farmington,
N.M.
Spain's Rafael Jiminez, an 11th-place finisher in the 2008 Paralympic
Games in Beijing, was second.
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Jun 18, 2010 Colorado Ski Country Inducts Six into
Hall of Fame
Agent At Home -
2010-06-20 02:03
The Colorado Ski & Snowboard
Hall of Fame last week announced six new inductees at the Colorado Ski
Country USA (CSCUSA) Double Diamond Awards Dinner on June 10 in Denver.
Myhren helped secure the future of competitive disabled skiing and the
international success of U.S. disable athletes....Myhren was
instrumental in making Paralympic skiing the first adaptive sport to
be fully ...
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Canadian paddlers earn 2 bronze medals
CBC -
2010-06-20 01:45
Canadians place 2nd in synchro
swimming Canada won the silver medal Saturday in the team combination event
at the Spanish Open synchronized swimming competition, scoring 91.575 points
in Castellon. Jason McCoombs of Dartmouth, N.S.
Canadian Paralympian Woolstencroft retires Lauren Woolstencroft,
who won five gold medals at the 2010 Paralympics in Whistler, B.C.,
retired on Thursday.
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'Slumdog Millionaire' director Danny Boyle to
supervise 2012 London Olympic ceremony
Chicago Tribune
- 2010-06-19 22:45
Danny Boyle, the Oscar-winning
director of 'Slumdog Millionaire,' will oversee the opening ceremony of the
2012 London Olympics. Boyle was introduced Thursday as the artistic director
of the ceremony to be held on July 27, 2012.
Coe said there were no plans to cut back on the $60 million budget for the
opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics and Paralympics,
despite Britain's severe financial situation.
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Former Tiger Thomas Receives Service Award
LSU Sports -
2010-06-19 22:24
BATON ROUGE -- Recognizing the
selfless, generous and tireless commitment toward improving the world around
them, former LSU basketball star and now
Some of these included; YWCA Greater Baton Rouge for the Lights on
Afterschool Programs, South Baton Rouge Christmas Parade, Chicago 2016 - a
bid for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, The National Down
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Ireland perform well in European Team C'ship
Radio Telefís
Éireann - 2010-06-19 21:48
Jason Smyth secured victory in the
100metre event at the European Athletics Team Championship in Budapest on
Saturday. Smyth won the 100m in a best time of 10.27 to beat Francis Obikwelu
of Portugal. It beats his best time of 10.
The Paralympic Gold medallist is delighted with his performance and
he will be looking to making an impact at the forthcoming European Athletics
Championships in Barcelona.
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Smyth win boosts Ireland's Budapest bid
Breaking
News.ie - 2010-06-19 21:18
Derry sprinter Jason Smyth claimed
the scalp of reigning European champion Francis Obikwelu with a stunning
display at today's European Team Championships 1st League competition in
Budapest.
The double Paralympic champion spent the winter and spring in
America, training alongside Tyson Gay, and is improving at a great rate under
the coaching helm of Stephen Maguire and Lance Brauman.
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Munich holding event to celebrate Candidate City
announcement for 2018 Olympics
Inside the
Games - 2010-06-19 21:01
By Duncan Mackay British Sports
Internet Writer of the Year June 19 - Munich is planning to hold a special
celebration event in the Marienplatz
through to the next stage of bidding for the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics.
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Business Support Officer
Leisure
Opportunities - 2010-06-19 20:30
Company: University of East London
Location: London, United Kingdom Pro-Active East London - County Sports
Partnership (Hosted by the University of
expanding university at the heart of Europe's largest regeneration area
and adjacent to the site of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
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Volleyball Canada?s Hall of Fame
Volleyball
Canada - 2010-06-19 19:09
Volleyball Canada will be holding
its Hall of Fame evening this Friday, June 18. The event will be held in the
penthouse of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, located in downtown Ottawa, boasting
impressive views of beautiful Ottawa and the Gatineau Hills.
In 2000, Wayne had the honour of serving as the Head of Mission for the
Canadian Paralympic team in Sydney.
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Hundreds Compete For Top Spot At U.S. Paralympics
WFOR -
2010-06-19 17:49
More than 150 physically disabled
athletes from five countries will compete this weekend in the 2010 U.S.
Paralympics Track and Field National Championships taking place in Miramar.
More than 150 physically disabled athletes from five countries will
compete this weekend in the 2010 U.S....Paralympics Track and Field
National Championships taking place in Miramar.
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Special Olympics athletes chart their course
Al-Ahram -
2010-06-19 17:41
The Moroccan city of Marrakech
last week hosted the third Special Olympics Global Athlete Congress in which
66 Special Olympics athletes representing 35 countries gathered to draw up
their future.
She said all efforts should be integrated 'to serve and attract more
intellectually disabled athletes to this marvelous movement.'.
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The Book Sophie's Journey as it Relates to the
Present Moment
Suite101.com -
2010-06-19 17:01
In Sophies Journey, the story of
Sophie Delezio, a 9 year old girl who survived a horrible accident, is
presented though the words of friends, family, hospital stuff, emergency
workers and supporters.
Many people, including Karni Liddell, a paralympic swimmer,
motivational speaker and media personality, describe the incredible way that
Sophies spirit affected their life in the most positive way, bringing them
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World Cup Soccer -- Athletic Vegemite
Crains Detroit
Business - 2010-06-19 14:46
Like vegemite. Kids here eat
peanut butter and jelly. Kids in Australia eat vegemite, a vitamin B-rich
extract that once upon a time kept prisoners from dying of malnutrition.
Vegemite got famous here in 1981 in the catchy No.
Anyway, Heidi sent me and my wife to Australia for three weeks to cover
the Paralympics.
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Shaw bidding for fourth European medal at Kiel
World Cup
More than the
games - 2010-06-19 14:22
OLYMPIC bronze medallist Bryony
Shaw heads a strong British line-up at the ISAF World Cup in Kiel, Germany,
bidding for a fourth medal this season.
In the 2.4mR Paralympic class, Helena Lucas and Megan Pascoe will
hope to make it a fourth straight World Cup medal, with Lucas having sealed
silver at the Palma leg of the series, and bronze at last
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Women told to 'aim higher'
Worcester
Telegram & Gazette - 2010-06-19 11:31
WORCESTER Women should make
themselves more helpable at work and at home, speaker Bonnie St. John told
the first Worcester Womens Conference yesterday.
John, whose leg was amputated when she was 5 years old and who won three
medals in downhill skiing in the 1984 Paralympics, gave a keynote
speech that drew on her experiences as an athlete, mother,
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2012 London Olympics Latest Updates
PRLog -
2010-06-19 11:07
- People from all across the globe
eagerly await the phenomenal event of London Olympics 2012. Experience the
ongoing thrill and excitement of with latest updates and news. If you want to
enjoy the real magic then you must log on to www.2010olympictickets.
For the closing ceremony and paralympic ceremonies, Artistic
director will be appointed.
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Strange experience could give GB the edge
This is Local
London - 2010-06-19 11:01
PARALYMPIC bronze medallist Ade
Adepitan has called on High Wycombe?s Clare Strange to lead from the front
when Great Britain compete at next month?s World Wheelchair Basketball
Championships in Birmingham.
PARALYMPIC bronze medallist Ade Adepitan has called on High
Wycombe?s Clare Strange to lead from the front when Great Britain compete at
next month?s World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham.The
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Boyle named artistic director for London opening
ceremony
CBS 2 Palm
Springs - 2010-06-19 10:57
Award-winning director Danny Boyle
has been named the artistic director for the opening ceremony of the 2012
Olympic Games in London.
The Games' organizers also announced Thursday that Stephen Daldry will be
one of four executive producers who will oversee the opening and closing
ceremonies at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Book review: 'Real' by Takehiko Inoue
Keep Media -
2010-06-19 09:02
Unlike their counterparts in the
squeaky-clean world of American comics, the teenagers in Takehiko Inoue's
award-winning manga series 'Real' face graver problems than: Will Archie ask
Betty or Veronica to the hop?
Inoue's focus on disabled athletes gives 'Real' a greater depth
than standard sports sagas.
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Paralympian Green has homecoming of sorts
Miami Herald -
2010-06-19 09:01
Roderick Green represents the high
quality of athletes at the U.S. Paralympics Track & Field National
Championships in Miramar. Green, 31, of Edmond, Okla., is a former college
basketball player.
Paralympics Track & Field National Championships in
Miramar....After losing a bet in his sophomore year of college, he started
his journey in Paralympics track....At the 2000 Summer Paralympics,
Green won silver for Team...
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