The process began with the creation of the White House office of Olympic, paralympic and Youth Sport in February. |
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That much will also be made plain when Harry's paralympic schedule is announced later today. |
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News bulletins and newspapers are bursting with paralympic news and stories. |
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And Hannah Cockcroft, the T34 100m and 200m world champion, was named as the year's paralympic sportswoman. |
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After all the furore about his pool parties lately, you couldn't have blamed Prince Harry if he'd missed the paralympic swimming. |
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The paralympic athletes have also conquered many medals in sports like swimming, boccia, athletics and wrestling. |
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The Young Australian of 2014 is 21 year old Jacqueline Freney, a paralympic swimmer who won an impressive eight gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, the most of any Paralympian in a single games. |
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Mr. Speaker, I am sure that if you or I, who are not physically disabled, had to compete against a paralympic athlete, we would quickly be defeated. |
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A VANDAL who defaced paralympic hero Josef Craig's gold postbox has shamed the nation, a magistrate said. |
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A BRITISH paralympic star from the Midlands is to be the face of Birmingham's new BT phone book. |
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The Paralympic swimmer was surrounded by excited children eager to start playing on the specially designed multi-play area. |
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Matthew Cowdrey completed his second set of Paralympic medals with a bronze in the final of the S9 50m freestyle. |
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The Mascot for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games was Lizzie, the frill-necked lizard. |
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He suffers from night blindness, but this hasn't stopped him winning three Paralympic titles and a host of other medals. |
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The Dutchwoman's victory at London 2012 brought her a fourth successive Paralympic singles gold medal. |
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Blades are measured between races and it is illegal under Paralympic rules to switch blades during a competition. |
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The borough council will again be entering disabled youngsters to compete at Boccia, a game like Boules which is played at a Paralympic level. |
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The athlete, who won four gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Sydney, will be presenting shows on her local station, BBC Radio Cleveland. |
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Paralympian athelete Benoît St-Amand proudly holds the Team Canada Sledge Hockey Paralympic gold medal won at the Torino 2006 Winter Games. |
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All applicants will need to describe why they want to be a torchbearer and how they embody the Paralympic values in their everyday life. |
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It is a sure bet that, as in the previous Summer Paralympic Games, Canada will figure prominently on the medals scoreboard. |
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Beijing marked Chantal's fifth and final appearance at the Paralympic Games. |
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During its voyage, the Paralympic Flame will be carried by close to 600 torchbearers. |
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The Paralympic Torch Relay will be a 10-day journey and will involve 600 torchbearers. |
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Competing at the 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, Joanne won gold medals in her class for shot put, discus and javelin. |
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The flag bearer of the Russian Paralympic team will be the 55-year old nine-time Paralympic cross country skiing Champion, Valeriy Kupchinsky. |
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The European Football Championship and, in particular, the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Athens will place top-level sport in the limelight. |
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The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world, eagerly awaited by millions of sports fans. |
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The Olympic and Paralympic flames are extinguished, but the RCMP can still bask in the glow of a job well done. |
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We stand firmly behind our 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they prepare, once again, to make history. |
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A bear-bird-whale mythical creature was the mascot for the Paralympic Games. |
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Despite this, the cyclist found the inner strength to return to major sports and compete in the Paralympic Games. |
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As you may know, Kelly was a silver medalist in the marathon at the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece, held last October. |
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Paralympic gold medalist, Paul Gauthier of Vancouver, BC led the way with an easy 19-0 victory against Yibran Cortes Pacheco of Mexico. |
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Paralympic gold medalist, Paul Gauthier of Vancouver, BC won two more games and is sitting atop his pool in the BC3 category. |
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A chance moment of television coverage of a one-legged skier at the Salt Lake City Paralympic Games changed that. |
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Manali comes to us from the Canadian Paralympic Committee where she worked directly with their COO on a variety of Paralympic programs. |
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In 1992, she again participated in the Paralympic Games, this time in Barcelona, and finished 5th in the 100m despite an unhealed injury. |
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Paralympic Games, major international sports competition for athletes with disabilities. |
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Mr. Speaker, when it is time for a photo-op with Paralympic athletes, Conservative MPs are veritable sprinters. |
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The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were a defining moment for Canada. |
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The Indian Paralympic Committee, which has intimated his selection, has stated that being a voluntary organisation, it was not in a position to extend any financial help. |
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Visitors to the Canada Pavilion got to see the Olympic torch up close, and try a bobsled and a Paralympic sit-ski on for size. |
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Just a few months ago, she was in top condition at Sochi, winning a bronze medal in the first ever Paralympic snowboarding event. |
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But she is getting a bit older now and is starting to fall behind, so she is looking to participate in Paralympic sport. |
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The Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi will be the best ever, I truly believe it! |
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Then she qualified for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, where women hand-cyclists would compete for the first time. |
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Bagenalstown's Sydney Paralympic gold medal winner in boccia Gabriel Shelly will receive the Outstanding Achievement award at the Sports Stars function. |
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There seemed to be nothing standing between her and the gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. |
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Funding to winter Paralympic sport organizations and athletes increased sevenfold between the Salt Lake City and Vancouver Winter Games. |
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One delegation noted the recent organization of the Paralympic Games in China as a very effective medium for removing attitudinal barriers. |
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His best moment on the track came during the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games where he won two bronze medals. |
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The origins of the Paralympic Games are closely tied with military service. |
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It will enter service just in time to help accommodate the visitors who arrive in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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To view our press release on sponsorship of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, click here. |
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This modest beginning has grown into the worldwide competition the Paralympic Games are today. |
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Not to be outdone, Canada's Paralympic athletes also finished at the top of the medal table in 2010, racking up 29 golds in World Cup events. |
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The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games are a chance for Canada to show the world what it means to be Canadian. |
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Sumi, the mascot of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, will be on hand for 20-minute sessions in the afternoons. |
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The Transportation of Dangerous Goods restrictions are not in place during the Paralympic Games. |
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He competed in the Paralympic Games in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Peking 2008 and won a gold medal every time. |
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I encourage them to give the same support to our athletes competing in the Paralympic Games. |
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The Paralympic Games have a reduced number of athletes, competition venues and spectators, which is consistent with a smaller security workforce. |
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The Krasnodar guests praised the Canadian organizers' work and Alina promised to create a poem about her Paralympic Games visit. |
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The clock will count down the days, minutes and seconds left before the opening of the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. |
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We have hosted the most successful Winter Olympic Games in our history and we are now welcoming participants in the Paralympic Games. |
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For the first time in the history of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, all ice arenas will be within walking distance of one other. |
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The Paralympic coin, designed by Pippa Sanderson, celebrates accuracy, manoeuvrability and speed. |
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The Cardiff-born Paralympic sportswoman made it a double celebration at last night's ceremony by also winning the Woman in Sport title. |
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At her first Paralympic Games, the 1998 Paralympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, she won two silver medals, one in super-G and the other in giant slalom. |
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Team GB House was the British Olympic Association's operational HQ up to and during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. |
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This was followed by a section highlighting London, One month later, the Olympic and Paralympic flags were raised outside the London City Hall. |
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Approximately 4,700 Olympic and Paralympic medals were produced by the Royal Mint at Llantrisant. |
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As you know, British Columbia, and indeed Canada, has already enjoyed quite a remarkable year, having successfully hosted the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sailing venue will be put through its paces for the final time next week as it hosts the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta. |
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Rio Tinto Alcan employees presented Chantal Petitclerc with their best wishes and a special good luck charm at a ceremony marking her departure for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. |
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Karolina is now an inductee in the Canadian Sports Hall Fame for her record setting accomplishments at the Nagano 1998 and Salt Lake City 2002 Paralympic Winter Games. |
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The Paralympic Games, which followed, were similarly successful. |
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The argument will rage on beyond these Paralympic Games. |
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Pistorius will still compete in Beijing, in the Paralympic Games. |
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Just think about the Olympics and Paralympic Games. |
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Not later than six months after the close of the Paralympic Games, Greece shall transmit to the Commission a report on the various aspects of the implementation of the provisions of this Regulation. |
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The third day of competitions at the Vancouver Paralympic Games added five more medals to the Russian team and strengthened its lead in the medal standings. |
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It should be remembered that in that year, the European Football Championships will be held in Portugal and the Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in Athens. |
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An athlete who has the option to choose a sport class has to decide during their classification and remain in that sport class until the conclusion of the upcoming Paralympic Games. |
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These additional requirements were partially offset by lower than planned payments to screening contractors for the Winter 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games and billing rates for Screening Officers. |
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This marked the first time such an accord had been finalized as part of a Games bid, and prior to an Olympic and Paralympic Games being awarded to a host city. |
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Personifying the best of the Olympic spirit, Canadian skiers were welcomed to Argentina for the second consecutive summer so they could continue their training for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. |
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What I'd done before was squatting and deadlifting and then the benchpress, so didn't know anything about Paralympic powerlifting. |
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As an elite sportswoman, I am eligible for a work opportunity agreement signed by the company, the French Ministry for Sport and the French Paralympic and Sports Committee. |
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The participants also noted that the media play an important role in drawing attention to the Paralympic Games and helping to change public attitudes towards people living with a disability in Russia. |
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During the preparation for the 2014 Games in Sochi, we are not only drawing attention to the Paralympic theme, but also attempting to shift society's perceptions of people living with disabilities in our country as a whole. |
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Sochi International Airport is the future air gateway of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and construction of a new airport terminal is nearing completion. |
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The Games bring long-term positive social and economic changes in addition to making it possible to establish new standards and to popularize the Olympic and Paralympic values. |
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I am very pleased that the victories of the Paralympic athletes have been noticed and that people from around the world are showing us their support. |
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This time it's none other than Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, the Paralympic gold medalist, and disability rights campaigner, who has nettled la Hopkins. |
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During the visit, Irek donated an autographed statuette. At the museum, he also met school children from Sochi and told them about the values of the Paralympic Movement that guide him both in sport and life. |
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During the meeting of the Sochi 2014 jury of experts, the results of the first selection round for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games mascot ideas were presented and a short list of design ideas was created. |
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At the end of this, it must be fully understood that we brought forward bills that did everything possible to ensure the Paralympic and Olympic Games were the best ever. |
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She won two silver medals in cross-country ski events at the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games, which launched her into the record books as a repeat medallist in both the Summer and Winter Games. |
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This creates a laconic, immediately recognizable and memorable image of the building that demonstrates the democratic nature, accessibility and, at the same time, festivity so characteristic of the Paralympic Games. |
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It was like a dream come true when British Columbian Gary Cormack got a call last spring from Paralympic officials telling him he'd been short-listed for the Canadian Wheelchair Curling Team. |
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A PARALYMPIC monoskier from Warwick has become the first ambassador for Heart of England Mencap. |
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The Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games will be held on March 12, 2010, also at BC Place Stadium and is guaranteed to be a dazzling spectacle of pageantry and colourful performances. |
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Even without the once-in-a-lifetime exuberance of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012 would have always been remembered as a high watermark for British sport. |
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No other sporting event can unite the universal social ideals better than the Olympic and Paralympic Games and no other brand holds as much power as the five Olympic rings. |
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The Olympic Games have always been the world's pre-eminent display of the best in human athletic achievement, and the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada will be no different. |
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There are many examples of when the Olympic and Paralympic Games have transformed and rejuvenated the image of a city, its infrastructure and economy. |
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The Government of Canada, along with Canadians, admires the strength of our Paralympic athletes who are not only inspiring but giving hope to persons with disabilities and all abilities. |
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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were extraordinary events-by turns exciting, welcoming, spectacular and, sometimes, disappointing. |
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Kirill Mikhaylov added a silver medal in Men's 10 km Cross-Country Skiing to his two gold Paralympic medals among athletes with a physical disability. |
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In swimming, some swimmers were surprised when Paralympic champion Benoît Huot handed them their medals. Huot took advantage of his presence at the Défi sportif to encourage the young up-and-comers. |
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It will be the first international competition since 2008 for three-time Paralympian McLeod, who took some time off following the Paralympic Games in Beijing. |
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In early 2008, the IPC launched the Paralympian Ambassador Program, naming 11 past and present athletes to heighten awareness and understanding among young people about the Paralympic Movement. |
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Mr. Speaker, we are joined today by John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paralympian Ray Grassi, Olympian Jayna Hefford and Bell Olympian Jeff Bean. |
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In the late 1970s, the monoski was invented for Paralympic skiers, which enabled athletes with locomotor apparatus injuries to take part in alpine skiing. |
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Sit-skiing or monoskiing, was introduced as a demonstration sport at the Innsbruck 1984 Paralympic Games and became a medal event at the Nagano 1998 Paralympic Games. |
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In 2000 he received one of athletics' highest honours when he was chosen as flag bearer for the Canadian team during the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in Sydney. |
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Initiated at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, the James Worrall Flag Bearer Award provides recognition to opening and closing ceremony Canadian flag bearers in Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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Thirty-four engineers, engravers, die technicians, machinists and production experts at the Mint joined forces to create 699 Olympic medals and 399 Paralympic medals. |
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During the final lap of the 1500m, entering the home stretch of her final Paralympic race, Chantal admits that she lost her concentration a little bit. |
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The new guidelines were developed in consultation with representatives of the Sikh community to ensure those who carry the kirpan as part of their religious practice are able to attend Olympic and Paralympic events. |
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The resort town Sochi became the object of philatelic interest long before it was announced to be the next Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games capital. |
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The main goal of the training program, which is called 2010 Ready, is to ensure that workers are provided with appropriate training to make the 2010 Winter Games the friendliest Olympic and Paralympic Games ever. |
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Highly decorated Paralympic equestrian Lee Pearson, who already had the MBE, OBE and CBE for services to equestrianism and to disabled sport, is knighted. |
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National Olympic and Paralympic teams, athletes and coaches will require everything from basic accommodation and transportation to specialized sports medicine and therapeutic services. |
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This information will help forecasters determine if a winter storm could cause severe weather in the areas north over the Whistler Olympic and Paralympic Park, east over Whistler and south over the Sea-to-Sky Highway. |
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Located on the square in front of the City of Sochi Administration, the new museum is in very close proximity to the Olympic and Paralympic Flags. |
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His accomplishments are many, leading to 2 medals in the 1988 Paralympic Games in Seoul, gold in the 1500 M and silver in the 3000 m trike events. |
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In addition to an abundance of bird life, the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Village is also home to a variety of urban wildlife such as eastern grey squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, and skunks. |
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The department was also responsible for the delivery of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games and the building of a Digital Economy. |
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In February 2011, it was announced that he was appointed Musical Director for the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. |
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She also produced a poster and limited edition print for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, one of only 12 British artists selected. |
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In 2005 WPNSA was selected to host the sailing events at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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A celebratory parade took place on 10 September 2012, commemorating the Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
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Boccia is a Paralympic sport for athletes with disabilities that have a major impact on motor skills. |
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With just days to go before this summer's London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Dow Building Solutions has revealed that its Styrofoam products will have a part to play. |
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The Italian giants yesterday became official car suppliers to British Cycling, the governing body for the UK's world-beating Olympic and Paralympic teams. |
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After London was selected to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, the Royal Mint successfully won its bid to manufacture the games' Olympic and Paralympic medals. |
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In London over 6,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes were tested. |
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International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven is British. |
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Since 2008, rowing has also been competed at the Paralympic Games. |
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