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...World Games Los Angels 2015 by donating articles, video, and photos of athletes, volunteers, coaches, and those making this event possible, the largest...support from their staffs and citizens. SpecialNeeds.com was honored with interviews from both and we...

...felt it: this was going to be a good race. It's a small ritual, the kind athletes hold onto when everything else is noise. Light breaking through clouds...middle name, Sven. The phrase appears on his helmet, his gear, and in every interview where someone asks what drives him. Halgren doesn't talk about Lucan in...

...This week, I was honored to interview Mayor Lucy Martin of Calabasas....Britain team. They expect 115 athletes plus 55 people from the Great...that I'm sure the British athletes will not want to leave the...tennis for Special Needs athletes who will be participating...up to welcome these great athletes. On Thursday July 16th, children...

Ever since I started interviewing the "Real Heroes" of the...immediately knew I had to get an interview from her. It was my lucky...include making sure that the athletes have all their needs met,...races right along with the athletes. This helps her to keep in...closer relationships with the athletes and creates a bond that enables...

...real heroes of our modern times. I interviewed two such men today at the City...where officers run alongside the athletes, making sure they get the torch safely...unanimous. Thousand Oaks was to host athletes from Mongolia, San Marino, Tajikistan,...come from all over town to host the athletes until opening day of games. Joel...

...visually impaired classification, which covers athletes who retain the most remaining vision of the three...cross-country skiing, the guide skis directly ahead of the athlete, communicating through a radio earpiece and voice:...placements narrows to fractions of seconds, the athlete-guide partnership runs closer to real-time decision-making...

...Atlanta in 1996. The athletes who'll compete are training...sports, more events, more athletes, and television coverage...specific weight for American athletes. Home soil, home crowds,...default, without any athlete having to earn it from...it from scratch. One Athlete, Both Programs. Oksana...than any other American athlete at these Games. She also...

...snowboarders. Both are Americans. Both stood on the top step within hours of each other. For Elliott, this was the redemption he talked about. The athlete this site profiled before the Games as racing Beijing with a femur bone through his skin called Milan his "redemption games." He got exactly that....

...ran six medal events Wednesday morning, and U.S. athletes won three of them. Pike's Race. Pike is 39 and...Paralympic medal. Golubkov, competing as a neutral athlete, won the men's sitting 10km. Two Chinese athletes...athlete, won the men's sitting 10km. Two Chinese athletes followed him to the podium. Pike finished off...

Six cross-country sprint medals were decided at Tesero on Tuesday, Team USA won three of them, and one athlete from Belarus won a gold his country had never won at any Winter Paralympics. Oksana Masters took the women's sitting sprint for her 21st Paralympic...

...biathlon is a sport that rewards precise minds as much as strong legs. Athletes ski a cross-country loop, stop twice to fire ten shots at targets 10 meters...away, and take a penalty loop for every miss. One missed target can drop an athlete from the podium to fourth, and the penalty math compounds fast when the...

...Perfect Shooting Day. Gretsch arrived in Cortina as the woman every other athlete on the start list was trying to catch. She swept all three para biathlon...adaptive winter sports is exactly what makes defending a title here so hard: athletes ski a cross-country course and stop twice to fire at targets 10 meters...