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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wheelchair Tennis
		Wheelchair tennis is a sport for people with disabilities that is played on a regulation tennis court.
		Wheelchair tennis is one of the fastest-growing wheelchair sports and there is a range of activities to suit all standards, including two-day camps for beginners, juniors and women.
		Wheelchair Tennis is played according to the Rules of Tennis, but with the one exception that a wheelchair player is allowed two bounces of the ball, providing the first bounce is within the usual parameters of the court.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wheelchair-Tennis (755 words)

	2004 Summer Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 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 (953 words)

	Wheelchair Tennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wheelchair tennis is a sport for people with disabilities that is played on a regulation tennis court.
		Wheelchair tennis got started in the mid-70s thanks to the efforts of Brad Parks who is effectively the creator of competitive wheelchair tennis.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wheelchair_Tennis (313 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece, over a period of 17 days from August 13 to August 29, 2004.
		Athens 2004 marked the first time since the 1996 Summer Olympics that all countries with a National Olympic Committee were in attendance.
		The 2004 Summer Paralympics were also held in Athens, from September 17 to 28.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics (2292 words)

	wiki/2004 olympics Definition / wiki/2004 olympics Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		SoftballSoftball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Softball Stadium in the Helliniko Olympic Complex from August 14 to 23....
		WeightliftingWeightlifting at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in the Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall.
		LatviaLatvia at the 2004 Summer Olympics is represented by the Latvian Olympic Committee (Latvian: Latvijas OlimpiskÄ komiteja).
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/2004_olympics (8147 words)

	Disabled Sports USA
		Paralympic Family Members, National Chefs de Mission, official guests, and media representatives will be housed in central Athens hotels, which also have a high percentage of accessible rooms and common domain areas.
		The ‘Adopt-a-sport’ program being implemented in Greece by the ATHENS 2004 organizers and the Ministry of Education is under the auspices of this effort and is intended to teach primary and middle school students throughout Greece about the sports of the Paralympic Games.
		Wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville, MD, headed to Atlanta in early July to qualify for the Paralympics 800-meter semifinals.
	www.dsusa.org /ChallMagarchive/Summer04/challmag-summer04-Athens2004.html (1660 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The 2004 Summer Olympics are officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (the 28th Summer Olympic Games).
		The 2004 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony was held on August 13.
		The Opening Ceremony held on August 13, 2004 began with a thirty second countdown paced by the sounds of an amplified heartbeat.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/2/0/0/2004_Summer_Olympics_330c.html (2001 words)

	Women Warriors - Sports - Wheelchair Tennis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The game of wheelchair tennis follows the same rules as able-bodied tennis as endorsed by the International Tennis Federation except the wheelchair tennis player is allowed two bounces of the ball (only the first bounce needs to be in).
		Wheelchair tennis had been part of the 1988 Games in Seoul, but it wasn't until Barcelona 1992 that wheelchair tennis acquired the status of full-fledged competition.
		Since wheelchair tennis is such a new sport, there have been few limitations placed on women athletes, other than having to fight preconceived notions about the "limitations" experienced by handicapped athletes.
	www.womenwarriors.ca /en/sports/profile.asp?id=43 (383 words)

	Wheelchair Tennis -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wheelchairs that can only be pushed by another person, having all four wheels of equal size, usually approximately 8 inches in diameter, instead of two large in the rear (usually approximately 22 -24 inches) and two small 8 inch wheels in the front.
		Wheelchairs come in many sizes and colors and can be highly customized with several options including seat size (width and depth), seat to floor height, footrests/legrests, and much more.
		Wheelchair basketball has intense competition on the international level, and competitions include the Paralympic Games, an event held for athletes with physical disabilities in the Olympic host city two weeks after the Olympic Games, and the Gold Cup, a qualifying tournament held two years after every paralympics.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/174/wheelchair-tennis.html (1318 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/Paralympics.html (178 words)

	2004 Summer Paralympics - Definition, explanation
		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 closing ceremony for the 2004 Summer Paralympics took place on September 28, 2004.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/2/20/2004_summer_paralympics.php (953 words)

	Zina Garrison and Patrick McEnroe Named Coaches of 2004 U.S. Olympic Tennis Teams
		In the quad wheelchair competition (limited movement or strength in at least three extremities), a maximum of three players may compete in the event, with a maximum of three in the singles event and one team in the doubles event.
		Wheelchair tennis was introduced to the Paralympic program in 1988 as an exhibition event before becoming a full medal sport at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona.
		Paralympic tennis is an open competition, eligible to those athletes with a mobility-related disability and all competitors must compete in a wheelchair.
	www.usta.com /protennis/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=53686&itype=921&icategoryid=173 (925 words)

	Tennis Club - Tennis Club Group Pages
		Tennis is one of the fastest-growing wheelchair sports, according to Karen Gardiner, a certified therapeutic recreation specialist who serves on the hospital's sports program board.
		A goal of the Washington Township Schools Tennis Program, founded 40 years ago by longtime coordinator and coach Barbara Wynne, 71, is to build a base of wheelchair tennis players in the greater Indianapolis area.
		Wheelchair tennis also will be a featured sport at the Paralympics in September in Athens.
	ugatennis.groupfusion.net /modules/groups/group_pages.phtml?gid=7939&nid=3790&sessionid=21a7f5dc4c7a7a820c8edb57b8358040 (921 words)

	Randy Snow : Paralympic Legend
		Paralympic legend Randy Snow becomes the first Paralympian to be inducted to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in Chicago.
		An elite junior tennis player at the time, he was working on a farm when a 1000 pound (450k) bale of hay crashed down on him, forever changing his life -- a change he has said was a blessing in disguise.
		Snow is a member of the Texas Tennis Hall of Fame and the Wheelchair Sports USA Hall of Fame, and has won the USTA Brad Parks Award, among his many honors.
	www.paralympics.com /News_articles_archive/randy_snow_paralympic_legend.htm (269 words)

	Paralympics
		The 2004 Summer Games feature events in 19 sports, 15 of which are also Olympic sports: Archery, Athletics (Track and Field), Wheelchair Basketball, Cycling, Equestrian, Wheelchair Fencing, Football 5-a-side, Football 7-a-side, Judo, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Wheelchair Tennis, Volleyball.
		The first Paralympic Games took place in Rome, a week after the 1960 Summer Olympic Games were held there.
		The 1972 Paralympics included the first competition for quadraplegics, and demonstration events for the visually impaired.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/paralympics.html (581 words)

	Murderball - Coming to DVD November 29th 2005
		In 2002 he was voted Quad Rugby Player of the Year, and in 2004 he was a starter for Team USA at the Paralympics in Athens, Greece, where he led the team to a Bronze medal.
		He was a finalist in singles and a champion in doubles at the 1996 US Open for wheelchair tennis in the Quad "A" Division, and has earned several all-tournament team selections during his 24 years of experience playing basketball.
		Andy, a native of Arizona, is moving to Coronada, CA this summer, was an "any and every sport" athlete until he suffered a broken neck and spinal cord injury as a passenger in a car on his way home from school at age 16.
	www.murderballmovie.com /players.html (921 words)

	Blaze Sports National Disability Sports Conference - Instructors
		He was a member of the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater wheelchair basketball team from 1995 to 2000, during which the squad won two NWBA collegiate division championships.
		Wheelchair Tennis: Randy Snow is recognized as one of the most successful wheelchair athletes in history.
		His contributions to wheelchair tennis were recognized in 2003 when he was presented the prestigious Brad Parks Award.
	www.georgiacenter.uga.edu /conferences/2004/Mar/07/instructors.html (1112 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 115 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

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		Snow became what many consider to be the greatest male athlete in wheelchair sports history, with accomplishments such as becoming the only athlete in Paralympic history to compete in three different events (he won a medal in all three!), and being one of the few people to ever compete in both the Olympics and Paralympics.
		In 1991 he was honored by the ITF as the first ever world champion of wheelchair tennis, and in 1992 he captured gold at the Paralympic Games in both singles and doubles competition.
		Other accolades include the 1996 USA Wheelchair Sports athlete of the year, 2001 USTA player of the year, induction into the Texas Tennis Association and Wheelchair Sports USA Hall of Fame, the ITF Brad Parks Award and the wheelchair sports Heisman Trophy, and the Gerhardt Award.
	www.archworksinc.com /rta/id34.html (569 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.
	www2.edgate.com /summergames/paralympics (1364 words)

	USATODAY.com - Paralympics has athletes of all abilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This summer, one of those people is Jeff Glasbrenner, the captain of the U.S. wheelchair basketball team, who is considered one of the world's best players.
		In February's National Wheelchair Basketball Association championship final between the Denver Rolling Nuggets and Dallas Wheelchair Mavericks, Glasbrenner scored 63 points and had 26 rebounds to lift the Nuggets from a 10-point halftime deficit to a 110-99 win against the defending champs.
		He didn't know the school had a wheelchair basketball team, let alone that it was one of the top programs in the country, until he met another amputee, Troy Sachs, an Australian national team member who had come to the USA to play for the school.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/olympics/2004-09-16-paralympics_x.htm (914 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)

	Athletes gearing up for Paralympics
		WHILE the focus is on the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece later this year, there is a special group of Namibian athletes preparing for the Olympics of a different kind - the Paralympics.
		Although it is the first time in the history of Paralympic Games that paraplegic athletes will not have to pay for their participation, the athletes still need pocket money to make their involvement a memorable one, said Tsauseb.
		The Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games will take place on 17 September at the Athens Olympic Stadium for what is the greatest sporting event in the world, in size and importance, for persons with disabilities.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/June/sport/044B9A3C1F.html (530 words)

	2004 Summer Olympics
		The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games.
		Athens was chosen as the host city in 1997, after surprisingly losing the bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics.
		In the event the 2004 games were described as a 'dream' games by IOC president and Greece was congratulated for her organisation.
	www.askfactmaster.com /2004_Summer_Olympics (1705 words)

	GreenvilleOnline.com - Wheelchair tennis in college keeps coed moving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was on a rural road in Missouri the summer after her freshman year of college when her car was hit by a pickup truck.
		Casteel was moved to the open division and in May she found herself in the first Intercollegiate Wheelchair Tennis Championships, which she won, going from winless to champion in just over a year.
		Her goals are simple: earn her degree, play wheelchair tennis professionally and in four years play in the 2008 Paralympics.
	greenvilleonline.com /news/2004/06/13/2004061333232.htm (671 words)

	Welcome to Invacare - News
		Invacare Corporation's Team Invacare is supporting the Paralympic dreams of more than 30 of the world's best athletes representing nine different countries to the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, in September.
		The 2004 Paralympic Games will span 11 days, from September 17 to September 28, in Athens, Greece, welcoming some 4,000 athletes from about 130 countries.
		The 2004 Paralympic Games will be staged in the same Olympic venues as the 2004 Olympic Games, which immediately precede the Paralympics.
	www.invacare.com /cgi-bin/imhqprd/inv_news/newsArticleOnly.jsp?s=0&passedChildOID=536992696&from=Home (1304 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/index.htm (662 words)

	Katz to compete in paralympics - Newsday.com
		Susan Katz will not only play in the Paralympics that follow the Summer Games, but she could produce the television coverage of the events to boot.
		Katz was one of 12 women and five alternates selected from a field of 38 players at the Women's National Tournament at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, March 3-7.
		The 25-year-old athlete is a graduate of Quince Orchard High in Gaithersburg and a 2000 graduate of the University of Illinois, where she played on the women's wheelchair basketball team.
	www.newsday.com /sports/olympics/bal-katz0321,0,4604798.story (315 words)

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