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Other Sports: Olympics-Hollywood Park Studios to serve as broadcast hub for LA Olympics • May 13, 2025, 5:53 AM ET (The Star)
Paralympians create a program to help rebuild women's wheelchair basketball • May 10, 2025, 12:06 PM ET (ABC News (Australia))
LA Memorial Coliseum, SoFi Stadium announced as venues for opening ceremonies of 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games • May 9, 2025, 12:47 PM ET (CBS)
How these disabled women are changing the face of mainstream sport • May 3, 2025, 5:46 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))
Andrew Cassell, winner of the first sailing gold medal at the Paralympic Games – obituary • May 2, 2025, 4:38 AM ET (The Telegraph)

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Notable Honorees Sophie Pascoe • Dylan Alcott • Oscar Pistorius • Natalie du Toit

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Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
Dutch wheelchair basketball star Mariska Beijer
Jessica Long, American swimming legend
Meet Australia's table tennis player Melissa Tapper and find out how she trains for the Paralympics
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“The father of the Paralympic movement”
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon

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