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	2004 Summer Paralympics
		The 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in Athens, Greece, from September 17 to September 28.
		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.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/2004_Summer_Paralympics (948 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> boccia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		{{MergetoBoccedate=September 2006}} Boccia is a competitive sport, similar to bowls (but closer to bocce as the balls are not biased), but designed to be played by people with disabilities - specifically, cerebral palsy and other locomotor disabilities (those which affect motor skills).
		It is an official Paralympic sport, and is played in over forty countries worldwide.
		Boccia can be played by individuals, pairs or teams of three.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/boccia (299 words)

	2004_summer_paralympics info here at en.articles-on-parenting.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Paralympic accidents had earlier taken partial payment meanwhile the 2004 Summer Olympics as demonstration sports - women's 800 m & men's 1500 m wheelchair races.
		The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the rudiment spunkies with accidents entirely for generations with erudition difficulties, after it was dogma that the super colossal confine of the Spanish basketball company disabled.
		The doctrinal cultural pedantry was removed from the ceremony as a bruise of homage for the deaths of 37 teenagers & 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a truck equal with the sticks of Kamena Vourla.
	en.articles-on-parenting.info /2004_Summer_Paralympics (1080 words)

	2004_summer_paralympics info here at en.12-year.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Paralympic junctures had formerly taken plunk bosom the 2004 Summer Olympics as demonstration sports - women's 800 m 'n men's 1500 m wheelchair races.
		The exclusion was introduced after the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, the desirouss with junctures completely for mortals with lore difficulties, after it was enclosure in that the spacious cusp of the Spanish basketball line-up weren't disabled.
		The quotidian cultural splurge was removed from the ceremony as a stroke of adoration for the deaths of 37 teenagers 'n 4 teachers from Farkadona, travelling to Athens, whose bus collided with a truck available the boondocks of Kamena Vourla.
	en.12-year.info /2004_Summer_Paralympics (1014 words)

	Paralympic Games
		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.
		The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Paralympic_games.html (178 words)

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		The 2016 Summer Olympics, what is to be officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, are to be held in 2016, and is an international athletic event that has yet to be organized by the International Olympic Committee.
		The Munich Olympiastadion from bigfotos At the heart of the Olympiapark München in northern Munich, the Olympiastadion was the main venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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	CJOnline.com \| The Topeka Capital-Journal \| Athletes serious about boccia 03/21/02
		Boccia is a target sport similar to the Winter Olympic sport of curling.
		The object of the sport is to roll or throw the boccia ball closer to the white ball than the opponent.
		Drobny said Topeka was one of the first to submit a bid, along with Kansas City and Detroit, and was awarded the games Nov. 1, after a delay in the selection process because of the Sept. 11 attacks, she said.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/032102/com_boccia.shtml (792 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first Paralympics by that name took place in Rome in 1960, alongside the summer Games that year, bringing together less than 400 athletes from 23 countries.
		They were once again held in tandem with the summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, but then split off into an entirely separate event held in a different city than the summer Games until 1988.
		Besides athletics and swimming, the other sports at the Paralympics are archery, wheelchair basketball, cycling, equestrian, wheelchair fencing, 5-a-side and 7-a-side football, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, volleyball, wheelchair rugby and boccia.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/09/17/d40917041141.htm (788 words)

	Beijing 2008 Paralympics
		The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing, China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 p.m.
		The 2008 Summer Olympics emblem entitled "Dancing Beijing" was unveiled in August 2003 in a ceremony attended by 2,008 people at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests in Beijing's Temple of Heaven.
		This practice was adopted in 1992 for the Winter Paralympics, and became an official policy of the International Olympic Committee and the IPC following a June 19, 2001 agreement.
	www.travelplaces.co.uk /travelplaces/olympics/past-present.htm (2029 words)

	Paralympics
		The Paralympics are the second-largest sports competition in the world, after the Olympics; the 2000 Summer Games included 3,843 athletes from 123 nations.
		The Paralympics are coordinated by the International Paralympic Committee, founded in 1989 (succeeding several committees that had existed before then), which is the only international organization representing all sports and disabilities.
		The Paralympics have continued to grow, and the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul were once again held in the same venues as the Olympics.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/paralympics.html (582 words)

	Paralympic \| NPSA-Nepal
		The number of athletes participating in Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes in Rome in 1960 to 3843 in Sydney in 2000.
		To be considered eligible for the Games, athletes with a learning disability must have medical confirmation that their IQ rating is 75 or less and they too compete only against athletes in their own disability group.
		Most competitors will have been classified many times before they even reach a Paralympic venue, and several days are set aside at the beginning of each Paralympics for further classification checks by an international panel of experienced classifiers.
	www.paralympic.org.np /paralympic.html (545 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)

	Massage therapist off to Athens - September 25, 2004
		She’s been chosen again to give her healing touch to the competitors at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, which began Sept. 8 and continue through Sept. 28.
		A massage therapist at Expressions at 5 S. Market, Selinsgrove, and member of American Bodywork and Massage Professionals, she views the inclusion of massage therapists in the Olympic and Paralympic events at the request of world class athletes and trainers as lending credibility to the practice.
		Her job in Athens is a volunteer, unpaid position that Brandau said she’s excited to get her hands in primarily as "a learning experience" even though she has to pay her own way.
	archive.dailyitem.com /archive/2004/0925/fea/stories/04fea.htm (437 words)

	Boccia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Boccia is a competitive sport, similar to bowls (but closer to bocce as the balls are not biased), but designed to be played by people with disabilities - specifically, cerebral palsy and other locomotor disabilities (those which affect motor skills).
		Team competition is six ends, and six balls per team per end (two per player).
		You can find it there under the keyword Boccia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boccia)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bocciaandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Boccia (360 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/2004 Summer Paralympics
		The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) 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.
		They were accompanied by the head of the organizing committee Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who told the athletes and the audience: "The Olympic flame illuminates athletes.
		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 truck near the town of Kamena Vourla.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/2004_Paralympics (930 words)

	Athens opens Paralympics with extravaganza
		The delegations large and small, ranging from Benin and Afghanistan to the huge contingents from the United States and China, paraded around a towering 26-meter oak in the middle of the pitch, standing as a steadfast symbol of deeply rooted life.
		As was the case during the summer Games, which ended here barely three weeks ago, Iraq was given one of the warmest ovations of the evening, along with the Greek-speaking Republic of Cyprus.
		The almost hypnotic percussive beat, lasting almost two hours as the 4000 athletes and their entourages filed past, changed slightly to reflect country of origin: a bit of samba for Brazil, an oriental lilt for Arab countries, a touch of flamenco for Spain.
	www2.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-09/18/content_375647.htm (483 words)

	PCI: Paralympic Council of Ireland: Athens 2004
		Boccia, a form of bowls for athletes with cerebral palsy, was one of the highlights of the Irish team's success in Sydney.
		Patrice Dockery's Paralympic hopes in the T54 5000m lay in shreds as she lay on her back on the infield awaiting medical assistance following a horrific crash in the heat's in the Olympic Stadium tonight.
		On behalf of the Paralympic Council of Ireland he thanked the many people who contributed to organisation of the camp but reminded the athletes and staff that this is a critical and sensitive time for all concerned with the team.
	www.pcireland.ie /athens.2004.htm (10497 words)

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		The criteria for belonging to the Paralympic Movement is formal membership or recognition by the IPC.
		The Paralympics and the Special Olympics are similar in that they both focus on sport for athletes with a disability and are run by international non-profit organizations.
		Apart from that, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics differ in three main areas: 1) the disability categories of the athletes that they work with, 2) the criteria under which athletes participate, and 3) the structure of their respective organizations.
	www.paralympic.org /release/Main_Sections_Menu/faq.html (1883 words)

	Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece
		The general philosophy of the Paralympic Games is to follow the rules of the Olympic sports as much as possible.
		The term “Paralympic” derives from the word “Olympic” and the prefix “Para”, a Greek preposition which means “close to”.
		In addition to abolishing the fees for the first time, ATHENS 2004 is the first Organising Committee for the Olympic Games since the signing of the 2001 IOC-IPC Agreement which, operating under a unified management structure, is responsible for organising both the Olympic and the Paralympic Summer Games.
	www.greecetravel.com /2004olympics/paralympicgames (662 words)

	EdGate Summer Games
		This year Athens welcomes athletes with physical disabilities to the 2004 Paralympic Games, which will be held the 17th through 28th of September.
		Jessica Galli, is one of the top wheel chair racers in the U.S. She was the youngest member of the USA Track and Field Team at the 2000 Paralympic games in Sydney when she won the silver medal in the 800 meter.
		The Paralympics are not to be confused with the Special Olympics, a participatory event where all contenders receive medals.
	www.edgate.com /summergames/paralympics (1364 words)

	San Jose Sports Authority - [ Press/Media ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In addition, the Far West Regional Games is the final event this year for athletes to achieve U.S. Paralympics qualifying standards in track and field for selection to the U.S. team that will compete in the Athens Paralympic Games, which open Sept. 17.
		The Paralympics are staged every four years as a companion event to the Olympic Games and traditionally are held in the Olympic city.
		U.S. Paralympics is a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee and is dedicated to becoming the world leader in the Paralympic sports movement and promoting excellence in the lives of persons with physical disabilities.
	www.sjsa.org /aboutus/2004/051204-farwest_regional.asp (306 words)

	Athletes serious about boccia Topeka Capital-Journal, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To become a "ranked" competition --- in which competitors earn points for the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, Greece --- three national teams had to compete.
		Above: U.S. team member A.B. Anwar, of Topeka, prepared to throw his blue boccia ball close to the white ball on the floor of the Agriculture Hall during the boccia Americas Championship Games.
		Below: Canadian boccia team member Francois Bourbonniere threw his blue boccia ball during the championship games.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20020321/ai_n11778615 (737 words)

	Blaze Sports National Disability Sports Conference - Instructors
		She has been involved with disabled sports since 1997 and has served as the Swimming Coordinator for the U.S. Association of Blind Athletes, was a member of the USA Swimming Adapted Committee from 1998-2003, and is currently the Chairperson of Colorado Swimming, Inc.'s Adapted Swimming Program.
		She has been a staff member on numerous USA Paralympic Swimming trips including being an assistant coach for the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney and Head Coach for the 2002 IPC World Championships.
		He was a member of the U.S. team at three Paralympics – ’92, ’96, and ’00 – and won gold in the discus in ’96.
	www.georgiacenter.uga.edu /conferences/2004/Mar/07/instructors.html (1112 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Soccer - Soccer coach embraces challenge
		The ultimate goal is to compete at the Paralympics.
		The process began in 2001 when the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Sports Association allocated a small amount of seed money to find out if there was interest in forming a national soccer team.
		The Canadian boccia championship are in London this year.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Soccer/2004/01/09/308932.html (726 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| Guides \| UK \| Disability \| Paralympics
		The 12th Paralympic Games were held in Athens from September 17 to 28, 2004.
		Archery, athletics, boccia (like bowls), cycling, equestrian (horse-riding) five-a-side football, seven-a-side football, goalball, judo, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis.
		The 13th (summer) Paralympics in 2008 will be held in Beijing, China.
	news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3670000/newsid_3672800/3672858.stm (317 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Disability Sport \| Boccia squad confident
		Pearse and Robinson, who is making her Paralympic debut, go in the BC1 class.
		Boccia is contested by athletes with cerebral palsy who compete from a wheelchair.
		Murray become the first Briton to win the Paralympic boccia title four years ago and the 39-year-old believes he has a good chance of repeating that feat in Athens.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/3607625.stm (251 words)

	Paralympics 2004 >>> News and Information from the Paralympics in Athens
		The Paralympics 2004 in Athens has closed as the most successful Paralympic Games ever.
		Nearly 4000 disabled athletes from 136 countries around the globe competed for 525 Gold medals in 19 sports.
		China with a total of 141 medals (63 Golds) were clear winners on the 2004 Paralympic medals table.
	www.paralympics.com (288 words)

	Boccia
		New Zealand have won gold at the paralympic Boccia world championships in Rio de Janeiro.
		New Zealand beat Athens Paralympic gold medallists Portugal 7-6 in the final.
		KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Paralympic Council (MPC) will only seek help from the Finance Ministry after it has exhausted all other avenues of raising funds for the Far East and South Pacific (Fespic) Games, its acting president Zainal Abu Zarin said today.
	www.gamelow.com /Sports-B/Boccia.php (503 words)

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