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A salute to a Md. athlete
Sun reporterA Beijing-bound athlete from Maryland is featured on McDonald's beverage cups, but it's not Michael Phelps. Instead, it's Tatyana McFadden, a wheelchair sprint racer from Howard County who also is featured in a television commercial for Hilton Hotels...Tags: Athletes, McDonald's, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Companies and Corporations, John F. Williams
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Equal-access bill passes
Sun reporterAmid its flurry of final-day action, the General Assembly unanimously approved a bill requiring schools to provide disabled students access to sports programs, either among themselves or with able-bodied students. Under the measure known as the Fitness...Tags: Howard County, Labor Legislation, Teaching and Learning, John F. Williams, Laws
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Columbia Vet School Graduate Allowed To Assist At Olympics
For most of us horse nuts, watching the Olympic riders on television is as close as we get to seeing horses and riders of that caliber. Anna Pedersen of Columbiagot much, much closer. Pedersen, a fifth-year veterinary student at the University of Sydney...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Colleges and Universities, Equestrian, 2016 Olympic Games, Horse (animal)
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Paralympic Equestrian Gets By Without Arms
We've all had those days when riding your horse feels more akin to driving a truck than having a "conversation" through the reins. No matter how hard you tug, your horse has other ideas. Well, the next time that happens, instead of cussing out your...Tags: Cross Country Horse Riding, Sam Elliott, Equestrian, Horse (animal), Dressage
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Project assists wounded vets
The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project is a partnership between Disabled Sports USA and the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization that helps injured combat veterans and tries to raise awareness about the difficulties troops face when they...Tags: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Health, Hospitals and Clinics
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Nick Scandone dies at 42; Orange County gold medalist in sailing at Paralympic Games
Nick Scandone, an Orange County sailor who won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China six years after having been stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, died Friday at his Fountain Valley home. He was 42.
Sailing since he was 8, Scandone was...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Diseases and Illnesses, Bars and Clubs, Sailing, Health
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Chicago third of four finalists for 2016 Olympics
Tribune reporterMayor Richard M. Daley jumped out of his seat, thrust his fists in the air and emphatically whispered, "Yeah!" when the United States Olympic Committee announced 14 months ago in Washington it had selected Chicago as U.S. candidate to become host city...Tags: Olympic Games, Multi-Sport Events, International Olympic Committee, Sports Organizations, Heads of State
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Towson prepares for crowds along Phelps parade route
It's beginning to sound like a military operation, complete with maps, complex logistics, moving machinery and marchers in uniform.
With plans for the Oct. 4 parade to honor Michael Phelps and other Maryland Olympians rapidly taking shape, what became...Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Local Elections, M&T Bank Stadium, Sheila Dixon, Towson University
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Towson parade to honor Phelps, fellow Olympians
Eleven Olympic athletes with Maryland ties - foremost among them Michael Phelps - are being invited to take part next month in a parade in their honor in Towson, followed by a salute at Fort McHenry that will be capped off with fireworks. The formal...Tags: Arts and Culture, Debbie Phelps, Athletes, Sheila Dixon, Martin O'Malley
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Local Paralympic Swimmer Dies
Eighteen year old Sammamish swimmer Marin Morrison has died. Her family says the girl died in her sleep Friday. After moving to the Seattle area in 2006, she began swimming for Eastlake High School, in Sammamish. Before that, Morrison was a...Tags: Cancer, Sports, Death
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An Olympic renaissance
Ah, bella Italia. Rome, Venice, Florence, Turin ... Turin? This city of 900,000 in the northwestern corner of Italy, known mostly - if at all - as home to the Fiat and a certain controversial burial shroud, has been busy reinventing itself as it...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Fiat, 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Vehicles
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'Murderball'
Times Staff WriterThe raucous and bold documentary "Murderball" looks at the sport of quad rugby, played on a basketball court on which players in wheelchairs maneuver, sometimes violently, to move a ball upcourt and across the goal line. Though the players are...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Robert Duvall, Movies, Sex, Services and Shopping
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