Soccer 7-a-side (called “football 7-a-side” internationally) was first played in the Paralympics in 1984. The game is played by male athletes with cerebral palsy or other conditions including stroke and brain injuries. The players compete in two thirty minute halves that are fast paced just like able-bodied soccer. Also like able-bodied soccer the United States [...]
With the US women’s wheelchair basketball team taking the gold in 2008, the coming games are accompanied by high hopes and expectations. Five veterans are returning from their last success in hopes of scoring the gold again: Sarah Castle, Mary Allison Milford, Becca Murray, Alana Nichols, and Natalie Schneider. Watch for the new additions to [...]
Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a double gold-medalist Paralympian swimmer from Britain who has achondroplasia (a common form of dwarfism.) Eleanor is back for her second Olympics, having been the youngest British competitor at Beijing in 2008 where she took gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle and was dubbed the “British swimming sensation”. She was [...]