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  Paralympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part in the competition, giving an international notion to the movement.
The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
The new Paralympic logo consists of three elements in red, blue and green—the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winter_Paralympics   (356 words)

  
 1994 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The XVII Olympic Winter Games were held in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway.
Effectuating this vote, the Lillehammer Games were held in 1994, the only time the winter games have been staged two years after the preceding games.
For the first time, the Winter Olympics were not held in the same year as the Games of the Olympiad.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1994_Winter_Olympics   (333 words)

  
 Station Information - Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a special Olympics for disabled athletes.
Sir Ludwig Guttmann organized a sports competition in 1948 which became known as the Stoke Mandeville Games, involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries; in 1952 competitors from the Netherlands took part.
The first Olympic Style games for disabled athletes were held in Rome in 1960 which became the Paralympics.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paralympic_games.html   (187 words)

  
 Disability Central @ctivTeen > Special Features > Paralympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At the 1992 Albertville Paralympics he took Gold in the Slalom; 4th in the Giant Slalom; Silver in the Super G and 8th in the Downhill.
At the 1994 Lillehammer Paralympics he took Silver in the Slalom Gold in the Giant Slalom; Bronze in the Super G and Bronze in the Downhill.
He began serious competitive skiing in the winter of 2001 and through DWA came to the attention of national alpine coach, Steve Bova and DWA development team coach, Craig Robinson.
www.disabilitycentral.com /activteen/magazine/features/canaparalympians.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Inside MS: The winter paralympics: setting new standards for excellence
The winter event is growing slowly, and it's small compared with the Summer Paralympics, which has 18 medal events from archery to volleyball and had, in Sydney in 2000, a turnout of 100,000 fans.
Among the winter torch-bearers taking the flame to Utah are Zoe Koplowitz, 14-time last-place "winner" in the New York City marathon; Kelly Walker Haley, a top fund-raiser and volunteer at the Colorado Chapter; and Pam Hensley, who has completed ten MS 150 bike events, despite her MS.
Winter is no time to stop your exercise program: new adaptive equipment is frequently being unveiled and new leagues and programs are offering the chance for people at all levels of skill to get involved.
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 Paralympics await their turn in the spotlight - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
The managing director of Salt Lake City's 2002 Winter Paralympics recently touted to reporters his lesser-known Games, how they would go prime time and grab the nation — or, at least A&E Network viewers — by the lapel.
These are the largest Winter Paralympics ever, with 425 athletes from 36 countries.
She took bronze in slalom at the 1998 Paralympics in Nagano and recently moved to Park City to train for this year's Games.
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 House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - Minutes of Evidence
The exceptions to date were 1968 (when the Olympics were in Mexico and the Paralympics in Israel), 1980 (when the Olympics were in Russia and the Paralympics in the Netherlands) and 1984 (when the Olympics were in the USA and the Paralympics were split between the USA and the UK).
The Seoul Paralympics in 1988 were the first at which Paralympic Teams used the same facilities as their Olympic counterparts.
The British Paralympic Association and the British Olympic Association have not yet held any discussions on the inclusion of the Paralympic Games in a potential London 2012 Olympic bid, but the BOA Chief Executive has given assurances that the BPA will be included in the deliberations at an appropriate future point.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmcumeds/124/124ap30.htm   (2283 words)

  
 winter scene -- Recefil.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Guide to outdoor activities in winter: winter camping, Cross-country and Telemark skiing, snowshoeing, and winter first aid.
Winter camping is a lot of fun, but it presents some subtle dangers.
Winter camping, if not prepared, is dangerous even when sleeping.
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 USA Hockey
The Paralympics, held every four years and usually in the same country as the Olympic Games, are held in the summer and the winter and include athletes who are paraplegic, quadriplegic, blind, amputees cerebral palsied and other various conditions.
As the Games continued to be held over the years and were expanded to include athletes with a variety of disabilities in addition to paraplegia, the Latin meaning of the prefix "para", which means "attached to", was adopted to signify that the Games are attached to, or held together with, the Olympic Games.
The Paralympics were first held in Rome in 1960, with 400 athletes from 23 countries taking part.
www.usahockey.com /followLink?asit_id=8DDECAE59ACA4CBEE034080020D8D313   (324 words)

  
 Admiral Online Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Australian Paralympic Committee - The Australian Sports Commission funds the Paralympic Preparation Program, which the APC administers to provide funding for athletes to undertake high level training, compete against the best in the world.
Paralympics New Zealand - Administrative structure and sports opportunities for individuals with disabilities in New Zealand.
Paralympics Tennis 2000 - Archives and reports of the event in Sydney.
www.symsol.com /directory/directory.cgi?dir=/Sports/Disabled/Events/Paralympics   (260 words)

  
 NZDST_History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Winter sports for athletes with a disability gradually developed after World War II, as large numbers of injured soldiers and civilians tried to return to their skiing activities.
The first Paralympic Winter Games were held in 1976 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
By the third Paralympic Winter Games in 1984, which were held at Innsbruck, the Disabled Ski Team were winning the New Zealand's first medals in international skiing competition.
www.disabledsnowsports.org.nz /NZDST_History.html   (254 words)

  
 House of Commons - Culture, Media and Sport - Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) was incorporated as a Company limited by guarantee in April 1989 and registered as a Charity in November 1989.
The BPA's remit is to organise and co-ordinate British participation in Winter and Summer Paralympic Games and to assist Governing Organisations of Paralympic Sports in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the preparation of competitors in their respective sports for the Paralympic Games.
The BPA supports the IOC Reforms adopted by the IOC during its 110th Extraordinary Session in December 1999 in Lausanne aimed at ensuring that, whenever possible, the Olympics and Paralympics are held in the same venue, with bids being considered jointly by the IOC and IPC.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmcumeds/286/286ap02.htm   (1101 words)

  
 1994 - Lillehammer Sports Links - RealSportsNetwork.com
Washington Post: 1994 Winter Olympics - A summary of the Lillehammer games, made of articles published during the original games, in the Post.
Instead of throwing one's mai 1994 - Lillehammer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death.
-- Gore Vidal 1994 - Lillehammer I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
www.realsportsnetwork.com /Events_Olympics_Winter_Games_1994_-_Lillehammer.html   (1860 words)

  
 Print Article: Milton picks up Laureus award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Milton, who lost his left leg to bone cancer when he was nine-years-old, won the downhill, the super-G, the giant slalom and the slalom at last year's Games, becoming the first competitor in his amputee class to make a clean-sweep of all eligible events.
The Canberra-born 30-year-old had already won gold medals at the 1992 Albertville and 1994 Lillehammer Winter Paralympics and thought Salt Lake City would be the pinnacle of his career.
The Laureus victory puts him on the same pedestal as Cathy Freeman, the 2001 sportswoman of the year for her Sydney Olympic gold medal, and Steve Waugh's Test cricketers who won team of the year in 2002.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/05/21/1053196626438.html   (462 words)

  
 Press Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Since its Paralympic programme debut in the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Paralympics, Ice Sledge Hockey is quickly becoming one of the biggest attractions for spectators at Paralympic Winter Games.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is the international governing body of sports for athletes with a disability.
It supervises and co-ordinates the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games and other multi-disability competitions, of which the most important are World and Regional Championships.
www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=21061   (412 words)

  
 Wheelchair, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and disability information from New Mobility Magazine
Now, in the winter of 2002, Devlin-Young and Cable, both seasoned veterans, are among 500 disabled athletes from 36 countries competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals at the VIII Paralympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 1994 there were seven teams; at last count, 25 teams had registered with the U.S. Sled Hockey Association, with more forming every day.
Although she enjoyed alpine skiing and won three medals at the Paralympic Winter Games in Albertville, France, in 1992, the experience helped her realize that she preferred endurance sports, like wheelchair road racing.
www.newmobility.com /review_article.cfm?id=520&action=browse   (1536 words)

  
 1994 winter olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Norwegian flag is flown over the Olympic Stadium in Lillehammer, Norway during the opening ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics games.
1994 Winter Paralympics The Games of the XVII Winter Olympiad were held in 1994...
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 1994 Winter Paralympics - TheBestLinks.com - Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 olympics 1994 - Ultimate Guide To olympics
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 Disabled Snowsports New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Rachael has studied Travel Tourism and Business at the Sir George Seymour College and is currently in the process of a Graduate Diploma in Business and Marketing at Massey University.
Lives in Winter Park Colorado USA, Coaches in the winter and a builder in the summer Alan is employed as a coach for the National Sports Center for the Disabled Winter Park for the past 4 years, and is working closely with Rachael and Steve in their build up to Salt Lake.
Winter Park has been a home for the NZ Disabled ski team since 1988, and has help produced our medal winners.
www.disabledsnowsports.org.nz /nz_team.html   (462 words)

  
 LPB3 - Lighting: Hats - See summary guide to hats - Winter Hats
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 Paralympics Winter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Winter Paralympic Games operate under many of the same rules as the summer games and allow disable athletes to compete in various winter sport competitions.
Adaptive equipment, such as skis and sleds are used in some sports to make them accessible to disabled athletes.
The 1998 Winter Paralympics were held in Nagano Japan, a few short weeks after the Olympic Games.
www.aafla.org /7ig/InternationalGames/paralympwinter.htm   (71 words)

  
 Development and Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1982 : A demonstration game consisting of players from Sweden, Norway and Great Britain was tested out during the World Championship in Winter Sports in Switzerland (Les Diableretes).
1994 : International Games, Stockholm, Sweden, in December.
2010 : Winter Paralympics at Vancouver (Whistler), Canada.
www.canadianhockey.ca /e/develop/sledge/history.html   (523 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - Two Named as USA Luge’s Sam Venezia Volunteer Spirit Award Winners
Established in 1996, following the 1994 passing of Venezia, the award recognizes outstanding USA Luge volunteers.
Venezia served as a volunteer with USA Luge from 1982 to 1994, helping to create the association’s mission statement, while also using his machinist’s background to develop sled parts and USA Luge’s Verizion-USA Luge Slider Search ramp.
In other news from the annual meeting, 1992 Olympian Tim Wiley (Cambridge, Mass.) was re-elected to a second, two-year term as the association’s Vice-President, while Lin Hancock (River Forest, Ill.), an alternate to the 1984 Olympic doubles team, was also re-elected to his fourth, two-year term as Treasurer.
www.olympic-usa.org /73_8946.htm   (459 words)

  
 Canadian Women at the 2002 olympics in Salt lake City, Utah
Apparent disabililites of the skiers do not get in the way of breathtaking performances and the competitors in the alpine events at the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Paralympics certainly lived up to the Olympic motto: "Faster, Higher, Stronger".
Visually impaired skiers are guided through the course by sighted companions, and athletes with physical disabilities use equipment that is adapted to their needs; including single skies, sit-skies, or orthopedic aids.
As these athletes speed down the courses, they prove without a doubt that the alpine events at the Paralympic level are anything but rehabilitation!
www.caaws.ca /olympics/2002/features/paralpine.htm   (154 words)

  
 AAP Sports News (Australia) : Para: Six athletes off to Winter Paralympics @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Start / A / AAP Sports News (Australia) / January 29, 2002 / Para: Six athletes off to Winter Paralympics
Chef de Mission at the previous two Winter Paralympics (1994 Lillehammer,
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 1994 - Lillehammer : Winter Games : Olympics : Events : Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Summary of the Lillehammer Olympics games, including medal standings, and statistics for specific sports.
Teen Ink: The 1994 Olympics- A Tribute To The Past
A summary of the Lillehammer games, made of articles published during the original games, in the Post.
www.cheap-holidays-flights.co.uk /dir.cgi/Sports/Events/Olympics/Winter_Games/1994_-_Lillehammer   (121 words)

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