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Handikappidrott, Sverige (3 news)
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Ängelholm får handikappfriidrottskola
 Lokaltidningen
Ängelholm - 2010-06-21 08:46
HANDIKAPPIDROTT. I höst kan
Ängelholm få friidrottsträning för handikappade. Efter en veckas
träningsläger hoppas man att det ska vara möjligt.
HANDIKAPPIDROTT.
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Kevin Blomé satte nytt Europarekord i slägga
Blekinge Läns
Tidning - 2010-06-21 07:16
Gnistans Kevin Blomé,
handikappidrottare i klass U, satte nytt Europarekord i slägga under
Rosenbomspelen. Jag får väl fira med någon glass eller tårta eller något,
säger 18-åringen.
Gnistans Kevin Blomé, handikappidrottare i klass U, satte nytt
Europarekord i slägga under Rosenbomspelen.
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Bröllopet är en psuedohändelse
Dagens Nyheter
- 2010-06-20 10:42
Hon började sin karriär som
hovreporter, men tror inte på rojalism och spår att det här kungliga
bröllopet var rikets sista. DN:s Carin Ståhlberg har mött henne.
Ja, drottning Silvia, i Barcelona, vid Paralympics.
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Intl news (28 news)
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Hession clocks fastest time in Europe as Irish
shine to retain league status
Irish
Independent - 2010-06-21 08:19
PAUL Hession clocked the fastest
200m time in Europe this year and Derval O'Rourke ran an extremely promising
12.80 to help Ireland retain their First League status at the European Team
Championships in Budapest yesterday.
Paralympic star Jason Smyth (City of Derry) underlined his
talent yet again by winning the 100m in a Northern Ireland record of 10.27.
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Capital hurdles in a disabled athlete?s day
Hindustan Times
- 2010-06-21 07:39
At North Delhi?s Pinnacle Table
Tennis Academy, below a poster that says ?Winning is not everything ? the
effort for winning is?, there?s a fierce match going on.
Ever since she arrived in the city in 2008 after marrying national Paralympics
table tennis player Pradeep Raj, Suvarna has had to fight for every small
privilege that the able-bodied take for granted.
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Deloitte Ride Across Britain cyclists complete
1,000 mile ride
British
Paralympic Association - 2010-06-21 07:34
600 cycliststoday reached Lands
End to complete their 1,000 mile, nine day journey from John OGroats on the
inaugural Deloitte Ride Across Britain. The riders raised £315,996.32 for
ParalympicsGB, the events benefitting charity.
The riders raised £315,996.32 for ParalympicsGB, the events
benefitting charity.The group of cyclists, which also includes Olympic gold
medallist Rebecca Romero and Paralympic gold medallists Sarah
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Steep climb fails to put off Deloitte RAB riders
British
Paralympic Association - 2010-06-21 07:34
Riders in the Deloitte Ride Across
Britain faced their toughest challenge of the 1,000 mile, nine day cycle on
the sixth day of the event with the steepest climb so far.
The cylists went through Middlewich, Shrewsbury and Church Stretton on the
107 mile day and Paralympic gold medallist Jody Cundy stopped off at
Longdon CE Primary School for a question and answer
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Heather Mills aims for Olympic gold in skiing
Yahoo! India -
2010-06-21 06:27
London, Jun 21 (PTI) Former model
and charity campaigner Heather Mills has set her heart on winning an Olympic
gold medal as a downhill skier.
leg after being knocked down by a police motorcycle in 1993, is hoping to
represent Britain in the 2014 Winter Paralympics....'I''ve been skiing
for many years and I''m much better at that than ice skating, so I''m
training hard to try to get on the British Paralympic...
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Mt Kuring-gai athlete Tyan Taylor taking on the
world
Cumberland
Courier - 2010-06-21 03:59
An example of a goalball match, at
an international event in 2000. A MT KURING-GAI athlete will this week make
her international debut in goalball, a team sport for visually-impaired
competitors.
Her form last September was so good that the novice winger was promoted to
the national team for the world championships this week, which also serve as
a qualifying event for the London Paralympic Games
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ExCeL given approval to stage London 2012 events
Inside the
Games - 2010-06-21 03:50
June 20 - Plans for ExCeL to host
seven sports during the Olympics and six in the Paralympics during London
2012 have been formally approved by Newham Council.
Plans for ExCeL to host seven sports during the Olympics and six in the Paralympics
during London 2012 have been formally approved by Newham Council.The
Council's Strategic Development Committee have officially
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London 2012 will make youngsters proud to be
British new poll claims
Inside the
Games - 2010-06-21 03:50
June 20 - Almost two thirds of 16
to 24-year-olds believe that London hosting the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics
will make them feel proud to be "part of Britain", a new poll to be
published tomorrow claims.
Almost two thirds of 16 to 24-year-olds believe that London hosting the 2012
Olympics and Paralympics will make them feel proud to be "part of
Britain", a new poll to be published tomorrow claims.The Harris
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Records fall on day two of 2010 U.S. Paralympics
Track & Field National Championships
US Olympic Team
- 2010-06-21 03:31
MIRAMAR, Fla.? Scott Danberg
(Cooper City, Fla.) has been a fixture on the Paralympic field scene for more
than 20 years.
MIRAMAR, Fla.? Scott Danberg (Cooper City, Fla.) has been a fixture on the
Paralympic field scene for more than 20 years.Danberg, 47, has
competed in four Paralympic Games and on Saturday Danberg proved he'll
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2010 U.S. Paralympics Track & Field National
Championships draw to a close
US Olympic Team
- 2010-06-21 03:28
MIRAMAR, Fla.?The 2010 U.S.
Paralympics Track & Field National Championships drew to a close Sunday
at the Ansin Sports Complex with more standout performances from athletes
looking to capture the title of national champion.
Paralympics Track & Field National Championships drew to
a close Sunday at the Ansin Sports Complex with more standout performances
from athletes looking to capture the title of national
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Back stroke? Paralympic swimming selection process
under scanner
The Times of
India - 2010-06-21 03:18
All is not well in the world of
disabled swimming, more so in the Paralympic Swimming Federation of India
(PSFI) that controls disabled swimmers in the country.
All is not well in the world of disabled swimming, more so in the Paralympic
Swimming Federation of India (PSFI) that controls disabled swimmers in the
country.Where a maximum number of 18 swimmers, nine male and
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Special connection
Daily Sentinel
- 2010-06-21 02:34
HUNTSVILLE - A packed house at the
Von Braun Center Arena and a national TV audience would be more than enough
to pump up the intensity of most football players.
in the Paralympics.
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Friendly game helps build ties
thestar.com.my
- 2010-06-21 02:25
ABOUT 60 Malaysian students from
the Access English Language Programme took part in a friendly football game
with several members of the Womens Football Exchange at Padang Astaka in
Petaling Jaya, recently.
In June last year, an American team visited Kuala Lumpur, Pahang and
Sarawak and conducted training clinics for more than 200 female athletes aged
12-18, including disabled athletes and 30 coaches.
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Wheels in Motion keeps spinal cord service,
research moving
Guelph Mercury
- 2010-06-21 00:02
Vik Kirsch vkirsch@guelphmercury.com GUELPH
? Joe Weiler was among 120 people walking, rolling and running along a
2.5-kilometre course at the University of Guelph Sunday in a Wheels in Motion
fundraising event for spinal cord injury services and research.
Wheels in Motion, now in its seventh year locally, is named in honour of
Rick Hansen, the Canadian paralympian famous for his Man in Motion
world tour in the mid-1980s through 34 countries to raise public
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Heather Mills to compete in Paralympics?
Digital Spy -
2010-06-20 22:35
Heather Mills is to compete in the
2014 Winter Paralympics, according to reports.
Heather Mills is to compete in the 2014 Winter Paralympics,
according to reports.
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Disabled woman starts flower business thanks to
gizmo
Calgary Herald
- 2010-06-20 22:17
VANCOUVER â With a little help
from a gizmo, 22-year-old Rebekah McGeer, who has cerebral palsy, was able to
start her own flower business and watch it grow. McGeer can only use of half
of her body and cannot feel her left arm.
That was until a volunteer engineer invented a gizmo, through the Tetras
Society of North America, that changed her life. âI made flowers for the Paralympics,â
said McGeer, who faces many challenges,
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Olympic hero Hoy backs Morningsides Sport Week
Wishaw Press -
2010-06-20 21:49
by Andrew Weston, Wishaw Press
FOUR-TIME Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy gave his backing to Wishaw?s
Morningside Primary School last week after officially opening the Bank of
Scotland National School Sport Week (June 7-11).
'The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games provide us with all
sorts of opportunities to introduce young people all over the UK to sports
that they may not have previously encountered.
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Cockroft in T34 Record
uk:athletics -
2010-06-20 18:43
Virgin Mini London Marathon winner
Hannah Cockroft (coach: Peter Eriksson) reduced her own T34 400m World Record
at yesterday?s British Wheelchair Athletics Association (BWAA) International
at Stoke Mandeville (Saturday 19 June), clocking 1:04.
Disability Athletics Challenge meeting in Knowsley
(Liverpool) in May.
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Women face jail over ambush marketing
The Australian
- 2010-06-20 16:49
THE police arrived at 8.30am on
Wednesday as the two women huddled in their hotel room, hoping to hear from
their country's embassy. When the phone in their room rang, however, it was
the hotel manager.
The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 confers
exclusive rights to the use of terms such as:
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Mills aims for Paralympic skiing gold
Hollywood.com -
2010-06-20 16:46
Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather
Mills has announced plans to try out for Britain's Paralympic skiing team.
Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife Heather Mills has announced plans to try out
for Britain's Paralympic skiing team.
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Solid start for Verplank
Edmund Evening
Sun - 2010-06-20 16:14
EDMOND ? Edmond?s Scott Verplank
got off to a good start at the U.S. Open on Thursday posting a 1-over 71 at
Pebble Beach. It was on a day that several notables struggled, including Phil
Mickelson, who posted a 4-over 75. Angel Cabrera did as well.
All with one common theme ? showing recently disabled athletes what
they are capable of doing.
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MILLS AIMS FOR PARALYMPIC SKIING GOLD
PR inside -
2010-06-20 15:42
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY's ex-wife HEATHER
MILLS has announced plans to try out for Britain's Paralympic skiing team.
SIR PAUL McCARTNEY's ex-wife HEATHER MILLS has announced plans to try out
for Britain's Paralympic skiing team.The former glamour model, who
lost a leg in a motorcycle accident in 19 93, is training hard to enter
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Olympic Day
Seattle's Child
- 2010-06-20 15:40
West Seattle Stadium 4432 35th
Ave. S.W. Seattle WA 98126 Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 5 ? 8pm . Meet
Olympic athlete Emily DeRiela and Paralympic athlete Mike PetersAges, test
your skills at Olympic events and rock out with the Recess Monkeys.
Meet Olympic athlete Emily DeRiela and Paralympic athlete Mike
PetersAges, test your skills at Olympic events and rock out with the Recess
Monkeys.Ages 3 to 12.
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AZERBAIJANI PARALYMPIAN BREAKS 100 METER RECORD
Organization of
Asia-Pacific News Agencies - 2010-06-20 15:19
Baku, June 20 (AzerTAc).
Azerbaijani paralympian Elcin Muradov has won a gold medal to demolish the
world record in the 100 meter race setting a time of 10.6 seconds in the
Italy field and track athletics Open championship in Imola.
Azerbaijani paralympian Elcin Muradov has won a gold medal to
demolish the world record in the 100 meter race setting a time of 10.6
seconds in the Italy field and track athletics Open championship in
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Sullivan and Kelly lead the way in ..
Australian
Swimming - 2010-06-20 15:04
Australian swimmers have continued
to perform well in Europe over the weekend with Eamon Sullivan leading the
way in Italy, and multi class athlete Ahmed Kelly setting a new world record
at German Disability Open in Berlin.
for his goal of heading to the Paralympics in London in 2012.
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Great Scot Awards 2010: Paralympics swimming coach
gives all for club
Daily Record -
2010-06-20 13:01
HE HAS coached swimmers to victory
in five Paralympics but Eddie McCluskey strikes gold every Sunday.
HE HAS coached swimmers to victory in five Paralympics but Eddie
McCluskey strikes gold every Sunday.He loves nothing better than to see the
smiling faces of children with mental and physical disabilities as they
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Council welcomes super-fast broadband service
Press
Association - 2010-06-20 10:20
An east London council has
welcomed the news that it will among the first to benefit from a new
super-fast broadband. Newham Council will be among the first London boroughs
to benefit from the BT plans.
'Our investment will make Newham residents the first in London to have
blanket access to both fibre and advanced copper broadband services well in
advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic
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Lacrosse league is rolling
San Diego Union
Tribune - 2010-06-20 09:24
Local wheelchair athlete takes
ancient sport to a new level Howard Lipin Baker?s Wheelchair Lacrosse opened
doors to guys who had otherwise been idle since their injuries.
exposure to the sport,? he said. ?We hope that other (disabled athletes)
will enjoy it enough to start a team of their own.
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