Extractions: Summer Team Sites Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Canoe/Kayak Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field Hockey Gymnastics Judo Karate Pentathlon Racquetball Roller Sports Rowing Sailing Shooting Soccer Softball Squash Swimming Synchro. Table Tennis Taekwondo Team Handball Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Water Skiing Weightlifting Wrestling Winter Team Sites Biathlon Bobsled Curling Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Short Track Skeleton Skiing Snowboarding Speedskating U.S. Olympic Sites U.S. Olympic Fan Club Free eNewsletter U.S. Olympic Shop U.S. Paralympics Olympians on TV Photo Galleries Sports Jobs Ask an Olympian USOC Pressbox Athletes Events Sports Features ... 2004 games USA CURLING: Boise to introduce Olympic sport of curling // Rick Patzke // September 28, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 28, 2004 (STEVENS POINT, Wis.) The Olympic sport of curling continues to gain strength in the Mountain West states as a curling open house is planned Oct. 16 at the Idaho Ice World in Boise, Idaho. This is the second Idaho city to hold a curling open house. The McCall Curling Club formed last year in McCall, Idaho, and is growing strong, according to club member David Eaton. Members of the McCall Curling Club and nearby Evergreen Curling Club in Vancouver, Wash., have assisted with planning the open house with support from volunteers from the United States Curling Associations Mountain Pacific Region. Evergreens Arnie Iwanick and Barbara Brown and McCalls Eaton will instruct along with Dave Peck and Jerome Larson from the San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club and Jon Wilson of the Ogden Curling Club.
2002 Winter Olympics - Paralympics paralympics. The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the olympic Winter Games of 2002 The Sport Program for the Salt Lake paralympics was based upon the http://www.utah.com/olympics/paralympics.htm
Extractions: Overview Highlight Results Venues ... Skiing/Boarding The Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 (SLOC) was the first Organizing Committee to completely integrate the organization of both the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. SLOC staged the VIII Paralympic Games March 7 - 16, 2002, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Paralympic Games are the world's premier gathering of disabled athletes. In 2002, the Paralympics involved more than 1,100 athletes and officials. The competitions were held at venues throughout the Wasatch Front. History Venues used for competition included Soldier Hollow the 'E' Center , and and Snowbasin Ski Area . Two non-competition venues were located in Salt Lake on the University of Utah campus: Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, and the Paralympic Winter Village for athlete and official housing. The Main Media Center was located at the 'E' Center. Participants
BBC SPORT | PARALYMPICS | Britain Beats Olympic Tally Record Great Britain beat their gold medal haul from Atlanta as they increase theirSydney paralympics total to 41. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/english/olympics2000/paralympics/newsid_995000/99
Extractions: Britain's Paralympic athletes have beaten their gold medal tally record which was set in Atlanta in 1996. On Saturday, they won four more golds to take their haul to 41 in Sydney. Three of the golds came from the equestrian centre at Horsley Park. Lee Pearson landed his third gold medal of the Paralympics when he took the Individual Dressage Grade One Freestyle event at the Horsley Park Equestrian Centre in Sydney on Saturday. Pearson scored a total of 73.45 points to land gold, but team-mate Dianne Tubbs had to settle for fourth place, missing the bronze by just .44 of a point with a score of 68.55.
Extractions: Sydney will be honoured for its contribution to the Olympics when IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch presents a special cup to the people of the city. The Olympic Cup, a non-competitive award founded by the games founder Pierre de Courbetin, will be presented to Sydney Lord Mayor Frank Sartor at Sydney Town Hall on Thursday by the 80-year-old Spaniard. The Cup represents the outstanding achievements and success in Sydney, universally heralded for its warm hospitality and fair play. Samaranch identified the men's long-jump final, when the crowd cheered gold medallist Ivan Pedroso despite beating home favourite Jai Taurima into second place, as the defining moment of the Games.
Paralympic Schools Program - People With Disabilities What is the difference between the paralympics and the Special Olympics? paralympics provides sports opportunities for elite athletes with physical http://paralympic.nortia.org/Content/People With Disabilities/01 The Role of Spo
Bayer Sport, Olympics - News Archive Disabled sports SUNDAY 2004/09/19 XII. paralympics in Athens The OlympicGames returned home to Athens for their http://www.sport.bayer.com/index.cfm?BEREICH_ID=1310
SportsFilter | New Olympic Sports Being Considered For 2012 Add the paralympic sports to the olympics after you remove all the judged Baseball isn t an olympic sport, IMO. I love baseball, but it has never really http://www.sportsfilter.com/comments.cfm/3655
Extractions: Marla Runyan is the first Paralympian to qualify for the Olympics. AP SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Marla Runyan is roaming around the cafeteria in the Olympic athletes' village with a plastic tray and silverware, hunting for broccoli. She finds a veggie that looks right, only to discover she's filled her plate with spinach. Such everyday chores are difficult for Runyan, who is legally blind. Operating her cellphone in Sydney is a major undertaking, as is reading her watch. But running is not tough at all. In fact, she does it so naturally and so well that she was in the field when the first round of the women's 1,500 meters was contested Wednesday (Tuesday night EDT). Runyan placed seventh in her first-round heat in 4 minutes, 10.83 seconds and qualified for the semifinals on Thursday.
QIANLONG.COMBeijing PortalEach Olympic Sport To Be Put To Vote A twothirds majority is required to be admitted as an olympic sport. v Rowingto debut at 08 Beijing paralympics 2005-04-13 170955 http://www.beijingportal.com.cn/7838/2005/04/28/1820@2615306.htm
Paralympics - Disabled Sport History Article All competitions are held in the olympic venues and are conducted by olympicofficials. To complete in the paralympics is the realization of every athlete s http://www.sandfordgroup.com/editoriallibrary/therapeutic_library/disabled_sport
Extractions: Team Accommodations Sport Source Directory Canadian Sport Tournaments CDN Sport Associations ... ON-LINE BUYERS GUIDE by William Bishop Athletes are making history in the world of sports for persons with a disability and Canada is among the top nations involved. In 1973, Eugene Reimer, (a paraplegic wheelchair athlete who won a number of world records) became Sport Canada's Male Athlete of the Year for 1972, an honour no other nation has ever bestowed on a disabled athlete. Three years later, in 1975, the first tri-disability competitions were held in Edmonton, Alberta. They included the annual Wheelchair, Blind and Amputee Games. In 1983, athlete Rick Hansen was honoured with the first Lou Marsh Special Award of Merit, (given to Canada's most outstanding athlete) for winning nine gold medals at the Pan American Wheelchair Games in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation established the Dr. Robert Jackson Award for Ontario's Disabled Athlete of the Year in 1986. St. Catharines's Joanne Bouw, a cerebral palsy athlete was the first recipient, recognized for her accomplishments as a field event World Champion. Sports for disabled athletes did not always have a high profile. Over the years they have gone through many changes, survived many obstacles. The earliest record of Sport for the Physically Disabled dates back to World War I when it was initiated as a form of treatment, especially among the blind and amputees servicemen. But the interest and enthusiasm among the disabled was not long lasting. Prior to 1940, medicine was able to do little for disabled persons, especially those who suffered spinal injuries. The majority of the spinal injured died a short time after their accidents from ensuing complications and sometimes from the loss of the will to live.
New Beacon - September 2004 Two weeks after the completion of the olympic Games, the best Paralympic BBC Sport will be covering the paralympics for approximately 90 minutes each http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_nbsep
Extractions: Editor Ann Lee Two weeks after the completion of the Olympic Games, the best Paralympic athletes, who have met strict qualifying standards, will travel to Athens to compete in the Paralympic Games. The city will welcome 4,000 athletes from 130 countries for a feast of world-class sporting events. Great Britain will be taking a team of up to 170 athletes to the Games. The Paralympic Games began in 1948, when a neurologist working with World War 2 veterans with spinal injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Sir Ludwig Guttman, set up a competition with other hospitals to coincide with the London Olympics in that year. In 1960 the Olympics were held in Rome, and Guttman brought 400 wheelchair athletes to the Olympic city to compete in Parallel Olympics or 'Paralympics'. The Games have been held every four years since then, and blind and partially sighted people have been taking a full part since 1976. The general philosophy of the Paralympic Games is to follow the rules of the Olympic sports as much as possible. Sports included are: archery, athletics, boccia, cycling, equestrian, wheelchair fencing, football, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, standing volleyball, swimming, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.
Olympic Sports Scene olympic sports Scene is a weekly feature on www.usocpressbox.org with previewsand results highlighting US US olympic Committee. Phone, 719866-2221. http://www.usocpressbox.org/usoc/pressbox.nsf/0/acca7a5218aa1380852570360074140c
No Wheelies Need Apply into the olympics or at least for recognition and funding of the paralympics, But no disabled demonstration sport has moved up to a real olympic http://www.joeclark.org/integration.html
Extractions: by Joe Clark As millions of Olympics-hating channel-hoppers figure out ways to avoid not one but three separate TV feeds of the Barcelona games, an injustice bubbles at the periphery of the feel-good Olympic juggernaut. Disabled athletes and advocates are in their fourth decade of uphill lobbying for inclusion into the Olympics or at least for recognition and funding of the Paralympics, the separate athletic extravaganza for world-class disabled athletes that tags along after the Olympics. And while officials on all sides try to sound upbeat about the future of elite disabled athletics, the fact is that parity between disabled and nondisabled athletes from high-school teams to Olympic competition will remain a distant dream well into the 21st century. Disabled athletes (blind, amputee, and many types of wheelchair users, including paraplegics, quadriplegics, and people with cerebral palsy) compete in organized leagues in everything from archery and basketball to swimming and weightlifting. (A minute number of disabled competitors even compete side-by-side in an equally minute number of Olympic events, like shooting, archery and swimming.) By now no sensible sports fan or commentator would even hint that disabled athletes aren't athletes, but that's only if the subject comes up in the first place. Disabled athletes garner little coverage in the sports press and effectively none on TV, and as a result there isn't much of an awareness among Joe and Jane Sixpack that an entire category of athlete is shut out when the Olympic love-in takes place every four years. And that, sports fans, means the politics of the issue are kept safely out of sight.
Skate Canada: News & Views: Press Room For Canada to be the number one winter olympic sport nation in the world in 2010, paralympics Rob Needham, Patrick Jarvis. olympic Funding Partners http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/news_views/press_room/news_releases/2004/feb4.cfm
Extractions: Press Room News Releases News Photo Gallery ... News Releases February 4, 2004 - Calgary, AB ) - At a meeting of the winter national sport organizations (NSOs), and Olympic and Paralympic sport partners (Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), Vancouver 2010, Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA) and 2010 LegaciesNow) in Calgary, February 2 and 3, 2004, that signals the beginning of a collaborative initiative for administering sport in Canada to maximize the capabilities of each partner, plans were set in motion to Own the Podium in 2010. With the objective of being the number one winter sport nation at the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Vancouver, the group set out clearly defined goals and committed to a set of guiding principles to achieve success. "For Canada to be the number one winter Olympic sport nation in the world in 2010, we must win approximately 35 Olympic medals," said Mark Lowry, Executive Director of the Canadian Olympic Committee. " This is double the performance of the 2002 Olympic success of 17 medals."
The Paralympic Games - The King Link Difference between the paralympics and the Special Olympics Since theinternational governing body for the sport of cycling (the UCI) removed tandem http://www.thekinglink.com/Paralympics.htm
Extractions: Home Biography Journal Tandem Partners [ The Paralympics ] Contact Matt Press Highlights Sponsors Want to Help? ... Difference between the Paralympics and the Special Olympics What is the Paralympic Games? The Paralympic Games are the second largest sporting event in the world, conceding top honors only to the Olympics. The multi-sport competition showcases the talents and abilities of the world's most elite athletes with physical disabilities. More than 4,000 athletes and 1,500 media representatives from 140 countries will participate in the 2004 Summer Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. The 2004 Paralympic Games will be held September 17 - 28. The Paralympic Games are run under the auspices of the International Paralympic Committee The U.S. Olympic Committee and the U.S. Paralympics oversees the USA Paralympic Team by selecting the elite athletes for international competition while delegating authority to various disabled sports organizations. The United States will have approximately 300 delegates in Athens, Greece.
OLYMPICS SPORT Tvnz.co.nz Top officials of London s bid to host the 2012 Olympics are furious after a Sunday paralympics head Phil Craven hailed the Athens Games as a success as http://tvnz.co.nz/view/sport_sub_cat_skin/sport_olympics_index_group
ITF Tennis - Paralympics 2004 - OMC Return to the paralympics 2004 homepage It s good that tennis is an Olympicsport it s something very special, he said http://www.itftennis.com/paralympics/history/medallists/index.asp
Extractions: to more ITF websites About the ITF Juniors Mens Womens Seniors Wheelchair Coaching Development IPIN ITN Olympic Tennis Event Paralympic Tennis Technical The Paralympics Paralympic Tennis Seoul 1988 Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Medallists OMC Medal Table Barcelona 1992 Atlanta 1996 Sydney 2000 Athens 2004 The Olympic Medallists' Club The ITF Olympic Medallists Club was launched in 1999 to recognise those players who had embraced Olympic Tennis and achieved the rare status of being a medallist. It is one of several ITF initiatives to promote Olympic Tennis. Many past and present tennis champions along with officials from the International Olympic Committee, the British Olympic Association, the International Tennis Federation and the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games showed their support by attending the launch.
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LDYS - The Olympics And Paralympics The Olympics and paralympics. Passed Autumn 2000 Laspes Autumn 2006 That sport can enrich life, and opportunities for sport should be as wide as http://www.ldys.org.uk/web/policy/olympics.html
Extractions: Conference Notes: The commercial and sporting success of the 2000 Olympic Games held in Sydney. The Paralympics, which opened on 18 th October in Sydney with less media coverage. The success of Steve Redgrave who has won Gold medals for rowing events at the last five Olympic Games, and the success of other British athletes at this and previous Games. The success of Britain's disabled athletes, for instance the blind runner Bob Matthews who in the last 19 years has won 25 International Golds (including 7 Paralympic Golds) and has set 22 world records. Disabled athletes do not attract the, often lucrative, sponsorship that their able-bodied counterparts do. Bob Matthews' only individual sponsorship has been running shoes from a local sports shop. Conference Believes: In the Olympic spirit, of celebrating humanity's ability to push ourselves to new limits.
