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1. Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games - February 12 to 28, 2010 Paralympic Winter Games - March 12 to 21, 2010 For the first time, the Winter Olympics will be held by the sea and some venues, such as the Richmond Olympic Oval, are at sea level. Also, for the first t...
2. The Ultimate Olympics Games Group Headquarters This group brings together everything related to the Summer & Winter Olympics - including past, present & future games, the sports & the athletes. Re-live the greatest moments from Beijing 2008 and look ahead to Vancouver 2010 and Londo...
3. Oscar Pistorius Oscar Pistorius is fast. He's run 46.25 for 400 meters, 21.58 for 200 meters, and 10.91 for 100 meters. And he's done it all with no lower legs. Using his "Cheetah Flex-Foot" blades, Oscar has run 26 world record performances, and now he has started...
4. Natalie Du Toit Natalie Du Toit's story is truly inspiring. She first represented South Africa internationally at the age of 14. In 2001 she had to have her left leg amputated at the knee after a traffic accident, but far from letting this stop her, at the age of 24...
5. Disabled Issues The goal of this lens is to highlight important issues related to the disabled community and help educate both our community as well as the non-disabled community on different things that can improve our quality of life. My husband, my children and...
6. News and Information for the Disabled Community. I hope this Lens will: Promote the human rights of disabled persons; Promote economic and social integration of disabled persons; Develop and support organizations of disabled persons. Types of disability "Disability" can be broken down into...
7. Olympic Games | Origin, Present and Future of The Games Of The Olympiad The Olympic Games (often referred to simply as The Olympics or The Games) is an international multi-sport event subdivided into summer and winter sporting events. The summer and winter games are each held every four years (an Olympiad). Until 1992, t...
8. Paralympics Winter and Summer Games The Summer Paralympics in 2008 were held in Beijing, China, with the 2010 Winter Paralympics being staged from 12 to 21 March (2010) in Vancouver, Canada. The Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games is to take place in Vancouver and al...
9. Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE Sports icon Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE - talks big achievements, big ears and the even bigger challenges of being a mum.