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Aim for Olympics? Leeper says yes while Oliveira says ... wait and see

Joshua R. Pate wrote 6 hours ago: Blake Leeper is from Kingsport, Tenn. (Julian Finney/Getty Images Europe) It’s still three yea … more →

Tags: Inclusion, Olympic games

AWARDS: Channel 4 wins BAFTA award for London 2012 Paralympics coverage

SportOnTheBox wrote 1 week ago: Channel 4 has won the BAFTA TV award in the ‘Sport and Live Event’ category for its grou … more →

Tags: Awards, Ade Adepitan, awards, Bafta, BAFTA Television Awards, BAFTA TV AWARDS, Bafta TV Awards 2013, BBC, C4 Paralympics

Goalball

jacobpryszlak wrote 1 week ago:   Goalball UK are a small National Governing Body for the sport and we aim to increase participation … more →

Tags: Sport, sport england, Goalball, Visual Impairment, blindness, health, Conditions and Diseases, Communication Disorders, NGB

Investiture: Dame Sarah Storey hails 'pinch' moment

sykose wrote 1 week ago: British Cycling Paralympic Podium Programme athlete Dame Sarah Storey has described being made a Dam … more →

Tags: Bike <3, Gold Medal, barcelona, London, Prince, Wales, Sarah Storey, Buckingham Palace

Funding in disability sport1 comment

jacobpryszlak wrote 1 week ago: Funding in disability sport Disability sport has been given a boost as Sport England revealed how £2 … more →

Tags: Sport, Disabled Sports, Disability, English Federation of Disability Sport, sport england, National Lottery, Government

Blogging Against Disabalism: Jemma's Story

Sam Hailes wrote 2 weeks ago: Disabilism definition: Discrimination or prejudice against people with disabilities. Today I’m … more →

Tags: Faith, Friends, Journalism, Justice, Politics, Southampton, Brown, disability living allowance, Disabled

Being Inspired1 comment

twobytwo wrote 2 weeks ago: Calamity struck a few days before I was due to attend the Sports Fest event in Sheffield: Pete woke … more →

Tags: Other Sport, MS, Cycling, paralympics, Sports, Sophie Wells, Hannah Cockroft, Will Bayley, Rowing

Boxing

jacobpryszlak wrote 3 weeks ago: Why boxing? There are so many reasons why I chose boxing as a sport to participate in.  First, I lov … more →

Tags: Sport, AIM Academy, boxing, Melbourne, Disabled Sports, Amputation, Disability

Reasons in Rio2 comments

Graeae wrote 3 weeks ago: This April, the Cultural Olympic and Paralympic Forum took place in Rio, Brazil ahead of the 2016 Ga … more →

Tags: Amit Sharma, Reasons to be cheerful, Jenny Sealey, 2013, jenny sealey, reasons to be cheerful, Graeae, British Council, Brazil

Wheelchair Athletes: Performance & Injury

Parabellum wrote 3 weeks ago: Research Article Title Constraints Influencing Sports Wheelchair Propulsion Performance and Injury R … more →

Tags: Health & Medical, Anatomy & Physiology, Wheelchair Propulsion Performance, Wheelchair Injury Risk, sports wheelchair, wheelchair athletes

Australian dual paralympian Esther Overton retires

ZwemZa wrote 3 weeks ago: Esther Overton (image : adelaidenow.com.au) Dual Paralympian and bronze medallist from the 2011 Para … more →

Tags: International News, swimming, London, Australia, IPC Swimming World Championships, South Australia, Esther Overton, IPC World Championships

An Interview With Nathan Macqueen

Angela Steed wrote 1 month ago: Nathan macQueen training hard in preparation for Dubai. Nathan MacQueen was a teenager with huge spo … more →

Tags: All, Sport, nathan macQueen, Powerlifting, Weights

Early Bird Catches the Worm — Introducing Grant Sharman

Margaret Alden wrote 1 month ago: English: Australian wheelchair rugby players Gary Croker (left, in white) and Steve Porter (right, i … more →

Tags: Shout-outs, Thank You, Call for Donations, event, Cause, For our Causes, Event 2, Disability, fundraising

Sycerika McMahon – a deserving Swimmer of the Year award winner

ZwemZa wrote 1 month ago: Sycerika McMahon Sycerika McMahon was named High Performance Athlete of the Year at the Swim Ireland … more →

Tags: International News, 2012 Summer Olympics, Swim Ireland, Ireland, Sycerika McMahon, European Short Course Swimming Championships, bethany firth, Dave Malone

"If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?"4 comments

kaylearns wrote 1 month ago: Amy Purdy became a professional snowboarder despite losing both her legs to meningitis. She encourag … more →

Tags: health, Mental Health, amy purdy, TeD, bacterial meningitis, Steve Jobs, Inspiring, Meningitis, inspirational people

What the &*#$% is Goalball?2 comments

jtvandenberghe wrote 1 month ago: I’m not a sports guy. I’m just not. I’d rather watch a documentary on particle physics and learn som … more →

Tags: Halifax, Sports, Goalball, Blind Sports

Rediscovery by Cool French Dude

fah02 wrote 1 month ago: The Modern Olympic Games were founded by Baron Pierre De Coubertin a French baron in the late 19th C … more →

Tags: 02 Rediscovery by Cool French Dude, Olympic, Olympic games, International Olympic Committee, Sport, French, Pierre de Coubertin, track and field, french language

Shaw take over as head of New Zealand Paralympic swimming programme 1 comment

ZwemZa wrote 1 month ago: Shaw will work with Paralympic stars such as Sophie Pascoe, who took a six-medal haul at London 2012 … more →

Tags: International News, paralympic, New Zealand, Swimming, New Zealand Paralympic, Jon Shaw, Rick Pendleton, Blake Cochrane

National Boccia Championships Head To Ponds Forge In Sheffield1 comment

mattjones90 wrote 2 months ago: Tom Dowan was one the millions who tuned into watch the London 2012 Paralympics. However, for Dowan, … more →

Tags: Sport, interviews, london 2012, boccia, Tom Dowan, scott mccowan, Sheffield, ponds forge, BISFed


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