The fantastic photos above (and many, many more) are from the Boston Globe, definitely worth a click! (have you ever heard of sitting volleyball? Or blind football?)
More photos also available on Sports Illustrated. Enjoy.
(update -- apparently Egypt is doing quite well there (Hiya!!!): 3 Gold medals and 3 paralympic records (2 in men weightlifting, 1 in women weightlifting), 2 silvers (men weightlifting, women weightlifting), 3 bronze (women weightlifting, men weightlifting, javelin).
Makes you want to scrap the idiotic football team of ours and give their gazillion dollar budget to the Paralympic committee).
More photos also available on Sports Illustrated. Enjoy.
(update -- apparently Egypt is doing quite well there (Hiya!!!): 3 Gold medals and 3 paralympic records (2 in men weightlifting, 1 in women weightlifting), 2 silvers (men weightlifting, women weightlifting), 3 bronze (women weightlifting, men weightlifting, javelin).
Makes you want to scrap the idiotic football team of ours and give their gazillion dollar budget to the Paralympic committee).
3 comments:
Truly powerful pictures. I am rather sad the paralympic doesn't get ANY TV/media coverage b/c I find these even more inspiring.
Thanks for posting it.
by the way :) Egypt now achieved 11 medals.
4 gold, 3 silver, and 4 bronze :)
powerful pictures...
Vertigo: quite sad indeed.. the NYTimes had an article about where to watch the games though and times for the US:
http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/where-americans-can-watch-the-paralympics/
LastoAdri: Welcome to the blog! And HURRAY for the Egyptian team!! Wallahi I have so much more respect for those athletes than for the olympians...
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