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	2004 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the first games with events exclusively for people with learning difficulties, after it was found that the majority of the Spanish basketball team were not disabled.
		The International Paralympic Committee stated that the exclusion would continue until there are sufficient tests for the disabilities and a way to measure the effect they have on a sport.
		The traditional cultural display was removed from the ceremony as a mark of respect for the deaths of 37 teenagers and 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a lorry near the town of Kamena Vourla.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Paralympics (925 words)

	Wheelchair Tennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been a goal Paralympic sport since the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, but it wasn't until 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona that wheelchair tennis acquired the status of a full-fledged competition.
		The 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney have boosted public awareness immensely.
		Some of the most thrilling action of all the Paralympic Games could be seen especially in the last two rounds of the men's tournament where local hero David Hall beat Kai Schrameyer of Germany in the semifinal and went on to win the final against Texan Steve Welch.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wheelchair%20Tennis (269 words)

	Encyclopedia: Paralympic Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The new Paralympic logo consists of three elements in red, blue and greenâ”the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world.
		Stoke Mandeville is a village to the south of Aylesbury in the county of Buckinghamshire.
		Paralympics Deaflympics (previously called Deaf World Games) the Games are for deaf people to compete at an elite level.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Paralympic-Games (2360 words)

	Encyclopedia: 2000 Summer Paralympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		See also: 1964 Summer Olympics The 1964 Summer Paralympics were the 2nd Paralympic Games to be held.
		See also: 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Paralympics were the first Paralympics in 24 years that were held concurrently with the Olympics.
		See also: 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games will be the thirteenth Paralympics and they will be held in Beijing, China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2000-Summer-Paralympics (757 words)

	Paralympics Summer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Paralympics have an involved history that intertwines numerous sports organizations and governing bodies.
		The first games that have come to be recognized as "Paralympic" were held in Rome in 1960.
		The 2004 Paralympics are scheduled to be held in Athens, Greece.
	www.aafla.org /7ig/InternationalGames/paralympsummer.htm (78 words)

	Paralympics on dope-alert - 2002 Winter Olympics coverage
		The Salt Lake Winter Paralympics open Thursday amid a growing awareness of the darker side to sports, a realization that some of its athletes have used illegal substances to boost performances.
		International Paralympic Committee spokeswoman Susanne Reiff said there's never been a positive doping result at the Winter Paralympics, first staged in 1976 at Ornskoldsvik, Sweden.
		Doping, though, was a huge story at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.
	deseretnews.com /oly/view/0,3949,70001811,00.html (266 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Paralympics open in a blaze of light
		Sauvage, a multiple Paralympic gold medalist and three-time winner of the Boston Marathon, was the last of six torchbearers of the Paralympic flame inside the main stadium.
		Earlier, stadium staff worked feverishly to drain pools of water from the arena floor and off fiber-cement platforms that had to be coated and re-coated with paint throughout the three-hour spectacular.
		Samaranch said he expected the Paralympics to be just as successful as the Olympics because many of the same organizers and volunteers were involved.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00/news/2000/1018/825300.html (640 words)

	Parlo - English World- Lesson Plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Paralympics began in 1948 in Stoke Mandeville, England as a sports competition for World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries.
		These days, there are six different disability groups represented in the Paralympics: amputee, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, vision-impaired, wheelchair, and "les autres" ("the others," which includes athletes with a wide range of conditions that don't fit into the established groups).
		The Paralympics have always taken place in the same years as the Olympics, and since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, they have been held in the same places.
	www.parlo.com /en/teachers/lessonplans/paralyeng_3.asp (290 words)

	1960 Summer Paralympics
		The 1960 Summer Paralympic Games were the first Paralympics.
		They were held in Rome, Italy with the Olympics.
		The only disability included in this paralympics was spinal cord injury[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/19/1960_Summer_Paralympics.html (69 words)

	Disability Central > Magazine > Internet & You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Parkin is a talented young swimmer who represented South Africa in the 200-meter freestyle event during the 2000 Summer Paralympics.
		This summer she certainly achieved that goal, when the five-time Paralympian qualified for the finals in her event in the Olympics.
		While both the Olympic and Paralympic Games have similar formats, they are not even close to having the same amount of media coverage.
	www.disabilitycentral.com /activteen/magazine/internet_you/rachel_article_09.htm (952 words)

	Jeffrey Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeffrey Adams (born November 15, 1970 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian wheelchair athlete.
		At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he won five medals, a gold in the 800 m and 1500 m, a silver in the 400 m and a bronze in the 5000 m and 4x100 m.
		Canadian athletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeffrey_Adams (94 words)

	disinformation \| disqualifying the paralympics 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney, Australia (October 18th-29th), 4,000 athletes from 125 countries competed in eighteen sports, including archery, basketball, cycling, equestrian events, fencing, football, powerlifting, shooting, swimming, volleyball, and--for the first time - sailing and wheelchair rugby.
		Some Paralympic powerlifters bench press over 273 kilos (approximately 602 pounds), and Australia's Troy Sachs scored 42 points in a basketball game in the 1996 Games, which is higher than the Olympic record for a single player.
		In short, the treatment of US Paralympic athletes is a national disgrace, and the global treatment of the Paralympics as a whole isn’t much better.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id479/pg1 (1442 words)

	Summer Olympics 2000 Index
		ESPN.com selected 12 moments from recent Summer Olympics that today still evoke feelings of joy, nostalgia and sadness.
		Armenian lifter Ashot Danielyan was stripped of his bronze medal after a positive test for the steroid nandrolone, becoming the fourth weightlifter to test positive in the Summer Games.
		Cambodia's standing volleyball captain Cha Hok said the two things he wants in life are a Paralympic gold medal and a homeland rid of land mines.
	espn.go.com /oly/summer00 (426 words)

	www.eyes-2004.info: History of the Paralympic Games
		In the beginning the Paralympics were primarily a sporting event for people in a wheelchair.
		Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics.
		On 19 June 2001, an agreement was signed between the IPC and the International Olypmic Committee securing this practice for the future.
	www.eyes-2004.info /11180.0.html (279 words)

	2000 Summer Olympics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Organisation of the (additional info and facts about 2000 Summer Paralympics) 2000 Summer Paralympics was the responsibility of SPOC the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee.
		However much of the planning and operation of the Paralympic Games was outsourced to SOCOG such that most operational programmes planned both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
		Organisation of the Olympic Games included not only the actual sporting events but also the management (and sometimes construction) of the sporting venues and surrounding precincts, the organisation of the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival and Olympic torch relay.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/20/2000_Summer_Olympics.htm (3491 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games: Paralympics
		SYDNEY (AP) -- A powerlifter from Azerbaijan was stripped of his gold medal in the Sydney Paralympics on Monday after testing positive for the steroid nandrolone.
		The International Paralympic Committee's Medical and Anti-Doping Commission said Gundus Ismailov would be expelled from the Paralympics until after the 2004 Games.
		The International Paralympic Committee said in a statement Sunday that Frasure, a member of Disabled Sports USA and the world's top 100-metre sprinter for amputees the past three years, had his A and B samples test positive to the steroid during competition testing.
	www.canoe.ca /2000GamesParalympics/home.html (217 words)

	2004 Summer Paralympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		2004 Summer Paralympics, Medal count and country performance ranking, Opening ceremony, Closing ceremony, Sports featured in the 2004 Summer Paralympics, Nations, See also and External links.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/2004_Summer_Paralympics (966 words)

	ABC Coverage of the Sydney Paralympic Games 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The eleventh summer Paralympic Games closed with a ceremony that was, as promised, informal, irreverent and one big party.
		The president of the IPC, Dr. Robert Steadward, declared the Games to be the best ever, a remark that was warmly endorsed by the capacity crowd at Stadium Australia which was later treated to a musical extravaganza.
		They have also marked a new and binding relationship between the Olympic and Paralympic movements, as well as the spectre of performance-enhancing drug-use by Paralympic athletes.
	abc.net.au /paralympics (436 words)

	ABM -- Belarusians in the 2000 Summer Olympics
		Results -- Belarusians in the 2000 Summer Olympics
		The 26 Belarusian athletes won a total of 23 medals at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney (which ended on Oct. 29th).
		132; Monday, October 30, 2000; 3:40 p.m., and the official BelTA: October 27, 2000 and October 24, 2000.
	www.belarus-misc.org /bel-oly00.htm (1078 words)

	PISTONS: 2004 NBA Champs Recognize Local, Two-Time Medal-Winning Paralympian Swimmer
		She is currently ranked second in the world in the 200-meter freestyle and is a two-time American record holder (100-meter breaststroke and 4X50 medley relay).
		A native of Fraser, Angelelli-Kornoelje, who competed in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, became an incomplete quadriplegic at the age of 14 when she suffered a neck injury in a diving accident.
		Angelelli-Kornoelje is a member of the Michigan Athletes with Disabilities Hall of Fame and a two-time winner of the Hall of Fame’s Disabled Female Athlete of the Year (2000 and 2003).
	www.nba.com /pistons/community/michheroes_050316.html (627 words)

	The Hartford Team Ability Wins 10 Medals at Paralympics (10/31/2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She won silver medals in the 100-meter butterfly, 100-meter backstroke, 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter individual medley, and a bronze medal in the 50-meter freestyle.
		The winningest athlete in Paralympics history now has a career total of 54 medals, 41 of them gold.
		Chris Waddell of Park City, Utah, a five-time gold medalist in Winter Paralympics competition, picked up his first Summer Paralympics medal with a silver in the 200-meter wheelchair sprint.
	www.thehartford.com /corporate/news_issues/2000Life/20001031a.html (461 words)

	Athens Olympics 2004. ABC Sport.
		The world's most populous nation won 32 gold medals, 17 silver and 14 bronze for a total of 63.
		Russia was third (27, 27, 38, 92) and Australia hung on to fourth place - the same as Sydney in 2000 - with 17 gold medals, 16 silver and 16 bronze for a total of 49 - nine shy of the record 58, won four years ago.
		Read profiles of leading competitors, explore the sporting venues and learn more about the Olympics sports.
	www.abc.net.au /olympics/default.htm (2755 words)

	2000 Summer Paralympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		2000 Summer Paralympics - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/2000_Summer_Paralympics (58 words)

	Berit's Best : Let the Games Begin
		The summer Olympics happen every four years, and this year they will be held in Sydney, Australia.
		Outside of the kids' area, the Sydney 2000 site provides more detailed information about Olympic sports, their history, rules, and legendary athletes.
		It has brief information about the first Games, and touches on issues surrounding the modern Olympics, such as whether athletes should be amateur or professional, and the roles of politics and commercialism in the Games.
	www.beritsbest.com /browse/olympics.html (1084 words)

	Welcome to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
		Today, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) hosted a conference for the delegates currently gathering in Beijing, China, for the 2005 IPC General Assembly.
		The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) and Petro-Canada recently renewed their partnership, which will ensure the sponsoring of the Canadian Paralympic Team for the Paralympic Games in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.
		Today, at an extraordinary meeting of the IPC Sports Council in Beijing, China, elections for the Sports Council Management Committee were held.
	www.paralympic.org (119 words)

	Paralympics: Where Heroes Come
		This page provides links to various sites around the world, carefully selected for this project.
		Sites deal with the Paralympics, disability sport, and disability issues.
		Paralympics: Where Heroes Come - images from the book
	www.melazerte.com /library/paralympics/weblinks.htm (260 words)

	SLAM! Sports: 2000 Summer Games Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Anlloyd Samuel, 19, left, from the tiny Pacific island nation of Palau, receives advice from Australian coach Dick Caine, Monday Sept. 4, 2000 at the Kogarah War Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool at Carss Park in Sydney.
		Caine, who has trained several Olympic champions, was selected by Sydney Olympic organizers to help prepare Samuel for the 50-meter freestyle event at the games.
		The Sydney Games will mark the Olympic debut of Palau, which will be represented by two runners, two swimmers and a weightlifter.
	www.theahl.com /2000GamesGalleryPre/swim_sep4b.html (83 words)

	2000 olympics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Sydney 2000 Games were the largest yet, with 10,651 athletes competing in 300 events...
		Progress was so far behind that, in 2000, former International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch...
		If you haven't heard by now, the 2000 Summer Olympics are happening this year in Sydney, Australia.
	www.sports-megasite.com /articles/1/2000-olympics.html (477 words)

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