By Elizabeth Hudson BBC Paralympic sports reporter On 21 January 2008, American teenager Mallory Weggemann’s life changed forever. Two months short of her 19th birthday, she walked into a clinic in her native Minnesota for the third of three epidurals to help ease the back pain she had been suffering. But something went wrong with [...]
WITH 2012 just around the corner, two of Kirkby’s Paralympic hopefuls are busy preparing to make waves for Britain at next year’s Games. Sam and Oliver Hynd both hope to represent their nation at the London Paralympics, with both brothers under very different pressures to achieve success. As part of their build-up to what the [...]
Northwood Junior High students received an inspirational presentation Nov. 15 from one of the most decorated Paralympic athletes in the country — a man who climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair. BY CHARLES BERMAN Chris Waddell, who earned 13 medals over seven Paralympic games and World Championships in skiing and wheelchair [...]
* Please click HERE to see a slideshow of the 12 designs * The London 2012 Olympic Committee unveiled its 12 official Olympic and Paralympic posters, created by the UK’s top contemporary artists. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) commissioned 12 artists (six for the Olympics and six for the [...]
Not much startles the Australian wheelchair rugby team – that helps when playing a sport affectionately known as “Murderball”. But the side dubbed the Steelers were left feeling very anxious indeed when Qantas grounded their fleet, threatening to turn their Paralympic dream into a nightmare. Much to their relief, their flight to Seoul on Wednesday [...]
MANSFIELD swimmer Charlotte Henshaw insists she’s taking nothing for granted despite striking a major psychological blow ahead of the European Championships in Berlin. The 24-year-old grabbed 100m breaststroke gold at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, seeing off a top-quality field in the process. Henshaw touched home in 1:39.33 minutes, ahead of Paralympic gold [...]
As track and field’s Diamond League crosses into the United States, the focus shifts from Usain Bolt to a pair of intriguing South African runners. Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee Paralympic champion, and Caster Semenya, scrutinized in a gender-testing controversy in 2009 and 2010, headline the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday (2:30-4 p.m., NBC). [...]
A Warwickshire paralympic dressage hopeful has told of her delight at finding a new horse to train with, after her own became lame. Ruth MacCarthy, 26, of Wellesbourne, has been unable to train for the 2012 Games since January after her horse Whisper ruptured a ligament. An owner has now given her his horse on [...]
Katy Sullivan, an actress and Paralympic runner ranked 5th in the world in her category, says that her newfound confidence is what has made it possible to boldly pursue her dreams. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 26, 2011 Katy Sullivan, an actress and Paralympic runner ranked 5th in the world in her category, credits training [...]
A PARALYMPIC hopeful has called on a council not to close the leisure centre where he learned to swim. Lyndon Longhorne, 15, from Crook, County Durham, yesterday handed a 4,000 signature petition to Durham County Council, which is consulting over plans to close the town’s leisure centre. If we hadn’t been able to go to [...]
Paralympic gold medallist and world-record holder Oscar Pistorius today visited the Olympic Stadium to see for himself where he may be competing in under 500 days time. Oscar Pistorius, a BT Ambassador, was given a tour of the Olympic Stadium ahead of his appearance at the BT Paralympic World Cup which starts today. Oscar Pistorius, [...]
A tale of hope emerges from the devastation as a Paralympian finds inspiration from volleyball – and flies high as she contemplates the 2012 Games. Alan Hubbard meets Martine Wright Sunday, 10 October 2010 Fifty-two people died in the terrorist atrocities in London on the morning of 7 July 2005, eight on the Circle Line [...]
We have received this invitation from the aptly-named PACE Rehabilitation. If you fit the criteria below you’ve got nothing to lose by following the link for what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of the ParalympicGB Team for 2012. ************************************************************* Do you have: An impairment? A UK passport? A sporting [...]
By Victoria Ward 26/10/2009 A former Army commander yesterday called for Jimmy Carr to quit for making fun of soldiers who have lost limbs. Patrick Mercer, Conservative MP and chairman of the Commons subcommittee on terrorism, said certain subjects should be instinctively “off limits” for stand-up comics. Carr told a 2,500-strong audience at the Manchester [...]
London 2012 Media Release 8/27/2009 Saturday 29th August represents exactly three years to go to the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) marked the milestone date by announcing the appointment of Chris Holmes MBE as its new Director of Paralympic Integration. [...]
HEYBRIDGE-based former Paralympic champion Danny Crates failed in his bid to win his last ever 800m race coming in third at the London Grand Prix on Friday. But it was still a fitting farewell to a remarkable athlete who in recent months has been struggling with a hamstring problem. Crates, who won the T46 800m [...]
The 2009 Amputee Games, creating sporting opportunites for the newly disabled. The 2009 Amputee Games is back at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, the home of disability sport, for another power packed two-days of sporting opportunity. Participants will be invited to ‘have-a-go’ at 13 Paralympic sports under the guidance of the sporting governing bodies. The inaugural event [...]
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
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Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
