Paralympic Games: History Binds Today’s Athletes to Yesteryear’s Multiple...
Raymond Martin of the U.S. celebrates winning gold in the Men's 400m - T52 Final during the 2012 Paralympic Games … Almost halfway through the 2012 Paralympic Games, it's pretty clear that despite the...
View ArticleDu Toit back atop the podium at Paralympic Games
LONDON (AP) - Impending retirement has done little to dim the lofty ambitions of Natalie du Toit, one of the most decorated athletes competing at the London Paralympics. Since losing her left leg in a...
View Article‘This is life. You have to find your way’ _ war-wounded athletes epitomizing...
LONDON — The explosion that took away Brad Snyder’s sight couldn’t touch the Navy lieutenant’s fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he...
View ArticleAthletes wounded in war inspired to compete in Paralympics
LONDON (AP) -- The explosion that took away Brad Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that...
View Article'This is life. You have to find your way' — war-wounded athletes...
LONDON - The explosion that took away Brad Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he...
View ArticleParalympics 2012: 5 Most Inspiring Wounded Vets Competing In Paralympics...
For six veterans severely injured in combat, partaking in the Paralympics isn’t about achieving personal glory. Getting to the point where they can swim, shoot and score a goal after losing limbs,...
View ArticleParalympics an inspiration to war-wounded athletes - Wire Olympics - The...
LONDON -- The explosion that took away Brad Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he...
View ArticleParalympics an inspiration to war-wounded athletes
LONDON The explosion that took away Brad Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he was...
View ArticleGames gold for blinded US serviceman Bradley Snyder at the London Paralympics
US swimmer Bradley Snyder on Friday won gold in the men's S11 100m freestyle at the London Paralympics - a year after losing his sight when an improvised explosive device exploded in his face in...
View ArticleParalympics 2012: Bradley Snyder swims to inspirational second gold
• US Marine adds 400m freestyle S11 to 100m title • Snyder lost sight in Afghanistan exactly one year ago Bradley Snyder wins gold at London 2012 on the anniversary of the day he was blinded while...
View ArticleParalympics 2012: Brad Snyder, Navy Veteran Blinded In Afghanistan, Wins Gold
LONDON -- The explosion that took away Brad Snyder's sight couldn't touch the Navy lieutenant's fighting spirit. A year after Snyder stepped on an improvised explosive device laid by Taliban that he...
View ArticleSwimming: Snyder's year - from a Taliban bomb to double gold
Snyder, a navy lieutenant, was fortunate not only to survive the blast but also to sustain no lasting damage to his limbs or torso. That his body was intact was the last thing he saw. For a few...
View ArticleParalympic flame lit at ‘spiritual home’
Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom: The Paralympic flame was lit at the spiritual home of disabled sport on Tuesday, signalling the 24-hour countdown to the start of this year’s Games. Some 3,000...
View ArticleParalympians impaired, but unimpeded
Beginning on August 29, more than 4,200 athletes from 174 countries will compete in 503 medal events at the Paralympic Games in London. But one question burns in the minds of many: what exactly is a...
View ArticleTeam SA ready for London Paralympic Games
South Africa's Paralympic medallist Natalie du Toit. (Gallo) Our Coverage More Coverage Team South Africa jetted out of the country last Tuesday, with the team of 62 hoping to outdo their run at the...
View ArticleLegend Natalie prepares to bow out
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's multiple paralympic champion Natalie du Toit is aiming for an astonishing seven golden medals at the London Paralympics when she jumps in the pool for her last major...
View ArticleThe Paralympic Games have come home. And, my, how they've grown!
The London Paralympics will be an emotional experience like no other. Unlike the Olympics, the Paralympics have never been solely hosted by Great Britain before. Across the country, the excitement is...
View ArticleThe Paralympics have come home. And, my, how they've grown!
The London Paralympics will be an emotional experience like no other. Unlike the Olympics, the Paralympics have never been solely hosted by Great Britain before. Across the country, the excitement is...
View ArticleHow Paralympic foundations were laid by a maverick doctor who fled the Nazis
Jewish neurologist Ludwig Guttmann revolutionised treatment of disabilities at Stoke Mandeville, with sport playing a big part Ludwig Guttmann, who set up the first specialist treatment centre for...
View ArticleParalympic flame lit in the spiritual home of disabled sport
Four national flames come together at Stoke Mandeville, where Dr Ludwig Guttman inspired the disabled sporting movement The four flames are united at Stoke Mandeville. Photograph: Ben...
View ArticleWas Jimmy Carr right about the Paralympics?
Three years ago comedian Jimmy Carr got in trouble for joking that injuries sustained by service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan would create a great GB Paralympics team. But was he right? It was a...
View ArticleSWIMMING: Legend Natalie prepares to bow out
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's multiple paralympic champion Natalie du Toit is aiming for an astonishing seven golden medals at the London Paralympics when she jumps in the pool for her last major...
View ArticleHistory turns full circle at London 2012 Paralympic Games
August 29, 2012 -- Updated 1212 GMT (2012 HKT) Disabled marathon runner Claire Lomas, center, lights the Olympic cauldron for the Paralympic Games in Trafalgar Square on August 24, 2012. The London...
View ArticleTearful farewell for Du Toit
>>>> London - South Africa's Natalie du Toit broke down in tears Friday after swimming the final race of her stellar career, bowing out at the London 2012 Paralympics with a silver to add...
View ArticleSwimmer Natalie Du Toit lost her left leg in a motorcycle accident in 2001,...
Published: Friday, May 23, 2008 In non-Olympic years, Natalie Du Toit spends a lot of time giving motivational talks to schools, companies and churches in South Africa. She talks of her life, how...
View ArticleFast track to Athens via Stoke Mandeville
IN 1948 Ludwig Guttmann, a neurologist working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, set up a competition for patients with spinal injuries to coincide with the Olympics in...
View ArticleLondon marks 2 years to Paralympics
Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Rob Harris, AP Sports Writer LONDON London will mark the two-year countdown to the homecoming of the Paralympics on Sunday, celebrating the growing prominence of...
View ArticleSir GUTTMANN bestowed with Paralympic Order
Today, 21 September, the IPC President, Phil Craven awarded the Paralympic Order to Sir Ludwig Guttmann in recognition of his outstanding work for sport for people with a disability. Eva Loeffler, Sir...
View ArticleTop Athletes emerge in 2004 Paralympic Swimming competition
ATHENS, 27 September - As one of the most popular sports in the Paralympic Games, Swimming has provided some thrilling moments and some great swimmers that have captured the majority of the Paralympic...
View ArticleSA athletes have the wind beneath their wings
By Larry Lombaard Athens - The metamorphosis of the butterfly, the symbol of the South African team, embraced Natalie du Toit, Oscar Pistorius and Teboho Mokgalagadi, who made their Paralympic debuts...
View ArticleLondon marks 2-year countdown to Paralympics
LONDON-London will mark the two-year countdown to the homecoming of the Paralympics on Sunday, celebrating the growing prominence of the event and its start in England in 1948. More than 500,000 people...
View ArticleSwimming: Pool of hard knocks for Beijing-bound amputee
Natalie du Toit, who inspires others, has her own childhood dream to fulfil. Photo / Reuters In non-Olympic years, Natalie du Toit spends a lot of time giving motivational talks to schools, companies...
View ArticleNatalie Du Toit: 'If I can achieve a dream, then anyone can'
In the midst of her busy schedule yesterday - training in the pool from 5am to 7.30am, dashing off urgently afterwards to sort out a temporary passport, grabbing lunch, heading to the gym for an...
View ArticleNatalie du Toit goes into Olympic swim battle - with only one leg
You hear a lot about dreams at the Olympics, and Natalie du Toit's should have died on a Monday morning in Cape Town when she eased her scooter out into the road and was broadsided by a careless...
View ArticleMelissa Stockwell is up for extended service
On April 13, 2004, Second Lieutenant Melissa Stockwell was leading a United States Army convoy of supply vehicles through Baghdad. She had been assigned a new route that took them from the green zone,...
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