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March Para-Sport of the Month: Para Snowboarding
Para snowboard is practiced worldwide. It features three disciplines: snowboard-cross, banked slalom, and giant slalom. Competition...
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Mar 15, 20211 min read
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February Para-Sport of the Month: Para Skiing
Para-skiing includes two sports: para-alpine skiing and para-nordic skiing. Para-alpine skiing has six different disciplines: downhill,...
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Mar 1, 20211 min read
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Disability in the Media
Are you looking for some new movies or TV shows to watch? Check out these movies and TV shows that feature individuals with disabilities!...
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Feb 8, 20213 min read
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January Para-Sport of the Month: Para Ice Hockey
Para ice hockey, also known as sledge hockey is the most popular Paralympic sport. It was created in Stockholm, Sweden in the 1960s and...
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Jan 11, 20211 min read
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December Para-Sport of the Month: Wheelchair Curling
Wheelchair curling was introduced to the Paralympic Games in 2006 and Canada won the first three gold medals consecutively (2006, 2010,...
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Jan 11, 20211 min read
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November Para-Sport of the Month: Wheelchair Rugby
Wheelchair rugby, originally murderball, is a physically intensive sport for men and women, most of whom have quadriplegia. It is played...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
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October Para-Athlete of the Month: Bryce Foster
A message from the athlete: I became an amputee after 12 years of surgeries trying to reconstruct and save my leg from congenital defects...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
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October Para-Athlete of the Month: Darek Symonowicz
A message from the athlete: "I got into para sport in 2012 after a motorcycle accident in 2008. Pursuing sport at the highest of levels...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
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October Para-Sport of the Month: Sitting Volleyball
Sitting volleyball is one of the most widely known para-sports. It was originally introduced internationally as a rehabilitative sport...
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Oct 19, 20201 min read
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September Para-Sport of the Month: Badminton
Para-badminton is a new and growing sport that has only been internationally competed in since the 1990s. The first world championships...
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Oct 19, 20201 min read
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