Blogging Beijing | The Seattle Times According to the International Paralympic Committee, the paralympics are elite Beijing s paralympics will be the largest in history and the city s http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/bloggingbeijing/
Extractions: The Seattle Times Company NWjobs NWautos NWhomes ... Low-graphic version RSS feeds initnav('timesnav'); initnav('marketplacenav'); Movies Restaurants Today's events Hi Contact us The 2008 Summer Olympics will punctuate three decades of development and test China's global legitimacy. They've already transformed the way millions of people think and live. Seattleite and Fulbright researcher Daniel Beekman brings you Beijing - before the Games begin. Subscribe April 3, 2008 4:23 PM Posted by Daniel Beekman As the screen flashed unsettling images, ten rows of dark-suited bureaucrats stiffened, frowned and laughed nervously. The awards ceremony for 2007's best amateur Olympic shorts had begun (see 'Olympic films - part one' for more coverage). Most amateur film makers here are 'reform babies' - heirs to a blossoming Chinese economy and a pressurized post-Mao society. They've been asked to 'embrace the Olympics' and promote President Hu Jintao's twin watchwords: harmony and stability. Yet change is what China's twenty-somethings know best. Buildings rise and fall every day where they live. New lifestyles are born. Trends come and go.
Higher, Faster Stronger: Countdown Starts For Paralympics U.S. paralympics, a division of the Colorado Springsbased U.S. Olympic Committee, will send 35 student-athletes with physical disabilities to the http://gazetteolympics.blogspot.com/2007/09/countdown-starts-for-paralympics.htm
Extractions: U.S. Paralympics, a division of the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee, will send 35 student-athletes with physical disabilities to the Paralympics from Sept. 4-12, 2008, through a newly created program. Participants will attend the opening ceremonies and several competitions and meet U.S. Paralympians.
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics/Paralympics Mascots Unveiled, New “Flashbac The new mascots for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics/Paralympic games has finally unveiled. When the news first broke out, my tears began to water! http://simontonekham.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/vancouver-2010-winter-olympicspara
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Alexa - Sites In: Paralympics An international nonprofit organisation formed and run by 160 National Paralympic Committees and 5 disability specific international sports federations. http://www.alexa.com/browse/general/?&CategoryID=459905&mode=general&Start=1&Sor
Extractions: Sept. 17, 2005 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aimee Mullins, an inspiring athlete who has set world records in the 100m and 200m dash at the Paralympics will be visiting Indiana University as a guest speaker at Alumni Hall on Monday, Sept. 19th at the IMU. Cosponsored by CHAMPS/Lifeskills, the event will begin at 7 pm and is open and free to the public. CHAMPS/Lifeskills is highly encouraging all athletes, coaches and athletics staff to attend. News of Mullins' accomplishments and courage has spread into the hearts of millions of people. Her legs were amputated at the age of one, but with the help of the most advanced artificial legs, she has set world records in running the 100-meter, 200-meter dash and the long jump at the Paralympics. Off the field, Mullins is working on a successful modeling career. People magazine named her one of the "50 Most Beautiful People." She has been featured in many forms of media, including features in Sports Illustrated for Women, NBC's Dateline, The Rosie O'Donell Show, Parade, Esquire, Jane and Cosmopolitan. She won the "Disabled Female Athlete of the Year" from USA Track and Field, was 1997's "Women of Distinction" from the National Association of Women in Education, a nominee for ESPN's Arthur Ashe Award for courage to be presented at the ESPY Awards show in 1998. Mullins was named to the Disabled Sports, USA Advisory Council and was nominated by Sen. Max Cleland for a position on the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Paralympics - The Olympics With A Difference Sir Charles Darwins theory may be survival of the fittest. Who but the fittest can only take up a job in the military? Once these men, at their prime http://www.syl.com/articles/paralympicstheolympicswithadifference.html
Extractions: Athletes from six types of disability categories can participate in the Paralympics sports event. The whole idea behind such an event is not to highlight their disability, but the focus is on their athletic ability. Not only the numbers of participants have increased over the years but number of events has increased too! This sports event has given many a disabled, a reason to live. Although this event started in the most humble way, today it has been given its due importance. It has been agreed since the Seoul Olympics that the country hosting the Olympics will be required to host the Paralympics event too! The 1960 summer Paralympics which witnessed 400 participants perform from 23 countries had 3806 contestants from 136 countries participating in Athens 2004. One of the most interesting things is how the participants are decided in the sport events for the physically challenged. It will be justified only when participants in a certain sport having similar disabilities compete with each other. Hence, care has been taking while making these classifications. Participants with similar physical functioning or with similar physical challenge are allowed to compete against one another in a particular sporting event.
WikiAnswers - What Are The Paralympics Sports question What are the paralympics? paralympics paralympics are Olympic games for paraplegics. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_Paralympics
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Bad Sports: USOC & Paralympics UPDATE Paralympic athletes sue U.S. Olympic Committee for disability discrimination. July 28, 2003 Paralympians Scot Hollonbeck, of Atlanta, Georgia, http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0999/a0999cov.htm
Extractions: UPDATE: Paralympic athletes sue U.S. Olympic Committee for disability discrimination . July 28, 2003 Paralympians Scot Hollonbeck, of Atlanta, Georgia, Tony Iniguez, of Aurora, Illinois, and Jacob Heilveil of Bothell, Washington, said in the lawsuit that the USOC violates federal law by providing benefits - such as elite training, coaching, performance incentives and health insurance - to Olympic athletes but denies those benefits to Paralympic athletes. READ STORY U.S. Olympic Committee thumbs nose at Paralympics By Josie Byzek. Sidebar: Vertical Integration Josie Byzek writes frequently about disability rights. Not a single Olympic dollar will go to Paralympic athletes for the upcoming games in 2000. That was the word from U.S. Olympic Committee Executive Director Dick Schultz at a mid-April Colorado Springs meeting of the organization's Committee on Sports for the Disabled. No sponsorships would be pursued by the USOC for the Paralympics either, said Schultz. This will leave Paralympians effectively without funding for their events. For amateur sports in America, all roads lead to the U. S. Olympic Committee. The 1978 Amateur Sports Act required the USOC to involve disabled athletes, but "it was so gray the Committee could always wiggle out of having to do anything," says five-time Paralympic medalist Scot Hollonbeck. A 1998 amendment now makes the requirement clear. Yet USOC support is "just not there for Paralympians," says the U.S. Disabled Athletes' Fund's Andy Fleming.
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 2008 Summer Paralympics Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are an official equivalent of the Olympics for athletes with physical disabilities. Beijing (Chinese å京; http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/2008-Summer-Paralympics
Extractions: FACTOID # More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work . Perhaps that's why they're the world's happiest nation Interesting labor facts Home Encyclopedia ... About WHAT'S NEW RECENT ARTICLES More Recent Articles SEARCH ALL Advanced view Search encyclopedia, statistics and forums: Select Category Agriculture Background Crime Currency Democracy Disasters Economy Education Energy Environment Food Geography Government Health Identification Immigration Industry Internet Labor Language Lifestyle Media Military Mortality People Religion Sports Taxation Terrorism Transportation (* = Graphable) Updated 659 days 2 hours 37 minutes ago. This article or section contains information about a future sporting event Host city Beijing People's Republic of China Nations participating Athletes participating Events 20 sports Opening ceremony September 6 Closing ceremony September 17 Officially opened by Athlete's Oath Judge's Oath Olympic Torch Stadium ... Beijing National Stadium The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games , the thirteenth Paralympics , will be held in Beijing China from September 6 - 17, 2008.
Extractions: Home Resources ... December 2004 EDGE Archives oandp.com (OPIE) By Miki Fairley It was a time to break records. The 2004 Paralympics in Athens, Greece, saw 304 world records and 448 Paralympic records shattered. A total of 136 nations participated, breaking the previous high of 123 nations represented at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia. The total number of athletes3,969 (2,763 men and 1,206 women)also set a new record, breaking the previous record of 3,843 set in Sydney. China swept the medals race, winning a total of 141, including 63 gold, 46 silver, and 32 bronze. Australia captured second place, with 100 medals26 gold, 38 silver, and 36 bronze. Great Britain came next, winning a total of 94, with 35 gold, 30 silver, and 29 bronze. However, Great Britain ranked second in golds. The British honored both Olympic and Paralympic winners in a "Parade of Heroes" in London October 18. "This was an outstanding performance by Great Britain's Paralympians emulating their second place in Sydney with a smaller team and against the toughest competition the Paralympics has ever seen," said Phil Lane, CEO of the British Paralympic Association. "Our 35 golds and medal success in 11 different sports has been achieved by a huge effort from both the athletes and the Paralympic GB sports staff." The United States was fourth, in both number of gold medals and total number of medals, with 27 gold medals, 22 silver, and 39 bronze, for a total of 88. Germany, France, and Canada took fifth, sixth, and seventh places respectively; however, Canada ranked third in number of golds with 28.
ACDD - Links- Sports- Paralympics Andreja Dolinar Slovenian National Team member, finalist of the Paralympic table tennis tournament in Sydney 2000. Biography, photos, career, achievements http://www.acdd.org/content.asp?id=228840
Wise Donkey: Do U Know -Devendra Singh - Paralympics Paralympic Games first held - Rome 1960. 1988 important since 1988 onwards they habe been held in the same venue as Olympics. http://wisedonkey.blogspot.com/2005/03/do-u-know-devendra-singh-paralympics.html
Extractions: hi how are you? 3/02/2005 08:04:00 PM Some comments to the same post in O3 blogsite. re: Do U Know 3/2/2005 10:35 AM quetzal Agree with Spark Disagree with Coffee. :) Paralympic Games - first held - Rome 1960. 1988 important since 1988 onwards they habe been held in the same venue as Olympics. 2001 onwards it has been made as a rule that same city will host Olympics as well as PAralympics Do U Know 3/2/2005 11:38 AM idiot In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised a sports competition involving World War II veterans with a spinal cord-related injury in Stoke Mandeville, England. Four years later, competitors from Holland joined the Games, and the international movement, now known as the Paralympics, was born. Olympic-style games for athletes with a disability were organised for the first time in Rome in 1960. In Toronto in 1976, other disability groups were added and the idea of merging together different disability groups for international sports competitions was born. In the same year, the first Paralympic Winter Games took place in Sweden.
Paralympic Games - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The Paralympic Games are a multisport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralympic_Games
Extractions: Jump to: navigation search Silver 2004 The Paralympic Games are a multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities . This includes mobility disabilities, amputees visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy . The Paralympic Games are held every four years, following the Olympic Games , and are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). (The Paralympic Games are sometimes confused with the Special Olympics World Games , which are only for people with intellectual disabilities The name derives from the Greek "para" ("beside" or "alongside") and thus refers to a competition held in parallel with the Olympic Games . No relation with paralysis or paraplegia is intended, however, the word Paralympic was originally a portmanteau combining 'paraplegic' and 'Olympic'. Summer Games U.S. Paralympics headquarters in Colorado Springs Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games , involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries ; in competitors from the Netherlands took part in the competition, giving an international notion to the movement. The first Olympic-style games for athletes with a disability were held in
U.S. Disabled Sailing Team Created in 1998, the US Disabled Sailing Team (USDST) annually recognizes the top three teams in the classes chosen for the upcoming Paralympic Games. http://www.ussailing.org/olympics/Paralympic/
Extractions: Created in 1998, the US Disabled Sailing Team (USDST) annually recognizes the top three teams in the classes chosen for the upcoming Paralympic Games. Qualifying for the USDST indicates that the athlete or team may be a serious contender to represent the United States at the next Games. The 2008 Paralympic Games are scheduled for September 6-17, 2008 in Beijing, China. The Paralympic Regatta will be held in Qingdao, a coastal city located 430 miles east of Beijing. Please visit the links below to learn more about the USDST ranking system for each class, and to meet past and present members of the Team. While this site is under construction, it will continue to provide critical information to athletes and others interested in US Paralympic Sailing.
Extractions: Since the age of 9, Boyt has been on a swimming team. Her coach has worked with other dwarves in the past and knew Boyt would be highly competitive when facing other dwarves or those with physical impairments in a swimming pool. Boyt has competed in a few national swimming competitions, and in November she officially qualified for the Paralympic trials in three events.
Paralympic Games - News - Times Topics - The New York Times News about the Paralympic Games. Commentary and archival information about the Paralympic Games from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/paralympic_games/
