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		<title>Paralympic Games set records, open doors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Toronto Star: Canadian athletes shattered records at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, bringing home 19 medals, ten of them gold. The unrivalled hero of the games was Canadian alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft, whose five gold medals set a new record for female athletes in the Winter Paralympics. Canadian athletes said they were helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic Games called &#8216;best ever&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Vancouver Sun, [UK] Daily Mail: As the 2010 Paralympic Games concluded in Whistler Village this weekend, organizers said the event set new records for attendance and visibility around the world. &#8220;What a blast we&#8217;ve had,&#8221; Sir Phil Craven, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, shouted out to cheering crowds at the closing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympics icon Hansen says Games have come a long way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Toronto Globe and Mail, Canadian athlete Rick Hansen says the Paralympic Games have made great progress since he won six medals for wheelchair racing in 1980 and 1984. He cites improvements in training, equipment and sponsorship, but acknowledges that &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be a difficult challenge&#8221; to bring broader acceptance to the Games. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Paralympians deserve nationally broadcast finale</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/16/column-paralympic-tv-coverage-28760/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vancouver Sun columnist Miro Cernetig reacts to the decision by CTV not to broadcast the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games across Canada. The Canadian television network subsequently reversed itself and broadcast the ceremonies, but only in British Columbia. Cernetig urges network executives to &#8220;rectify their unfortunate slight of the world&#8217;s Paralympians&#8221; by broadcasting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK advocates push for Paralympic awareness, social change</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/08/12/paralympic-legacy-21789/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Telegraph: UK academics and prominent disability sports advocates are criticizing the absence of a concrete policy to raise disability awareness and advance social change at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. According to a survey commissioned by London 2012, about 69 per cent of respondents could not name a Paralympian. Sixty-nine per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial: ADA helps everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/22/editorial-ada-helps-everyone-20518/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, editors of the Green Bay [WI] Press Gazette salute 16-year-old Jonathan Heider (left), who has set his sights on competing in the 2012 Paralympics. Heider was born without arms or legs. An excerpt: The ADA has had its share of critics. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High court declines Paralympic bias case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/07/us-supreme-court-declines-paralympic-3398/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal filed by three Paralympic athletes against the United States Olympic Committee. The athletes had sued the USOC for providing different benefits packages for Olympians and Paralympians, who are by definition disabled. Lower courts had ruled that the USOC had not violated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic champ faces stigma at home</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/04/paralympic-champ-stigma-3384/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Heba Said Ahmed (left) won a gold medal for power lifting at the recent Paralympic Games in Beijing, and broke a world record. But when she left Beijing and returned home to Egypt, Ahmed once again faced a society that views her as a second-class citizen because she cannot walk, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer player ejected from Paralympics: Not disabled enough</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/12/soccer-player-ejected-from-paralympics-not-disabled-enough-3185/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From BBC, Irish Times, and elsewhere: Irish soccer player and long-time Paralympian Derek Malone has been excluded from this year&#8217;s Paralympics because he was judged to be &#8220;not disabled enough&#8221; to compete. The Paralympics Council of Ireland has complained about the decision and asked for clarification on how it was reached. They said Malone had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USOC seeks federal funds; Some veterans wary</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/12/usoc-3182/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From MSNBC: The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) is proposing a major initiative to expand federal funding for sports rehabilitation programs for veterans with disabilities, and is hoping to add athletes to the U.S. Paralympic team in the process. But some critics worry that siphoning funds away from the Department of Veteran&#8217;s Affairs for sports programming [...]]]></description>
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