The United States finished just shy of the century mark. The USA finished with 99 total medals at the Paralympic Games in Beijing. Thirty-six of those were gold. Host country,…
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Good-bye Beijing
The closing ceremony for the thirteenth Paralympic Games was everything you would expect. There was also an Iraqi war veteran carrying the flag of the United States. Swimmer Melissa Stockwell…
A record setting Paralympics
The 13th Paralympic games saw 279 world records broken and 339 Paralympic records go down. In addition, 79 countries and regions won medals in Beijing during the Paralympic games, also…
The Paralympics come to a close
The thirteenth Paralympics games came to a close today as the city of Beijing put on a magnificent display of fireworks and pageantry. Iraqi war veteran and U-S swimmer, Melissa…
Paralympic golden moments
The United States Wheelchair Rugby team has won Paralympic Gold in Beijing. They defeated Australia on Tuesday 53-44. Andy Cohn had 10 goals for Team USA.
In the women’s Marathon today,…
The 2008 Paralympics Closing Ceremony
The 2008 Beijing Paralympics closing ceremony will be held September 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM (Beijing Time). The directors of closing ceremony pledge the performances will be spectacular. The ceremonies…
Competition events for September 17
September 17—Thus far Team USA has won a total of 98 medals. This is the eleventh and final day of the 2008 Paralympics. Besides the closing ceremonies, competition events being…
Highlights from day ten
The USA Wheelchair Rugby team came into today’s gold medal game against undefeated Australia leading the way in this tournament in goals, steals and blocks. They won the battle in…
A Paralympic update
The USA Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team has won Paralympic gold in Beijing defending their championship run of four years ago in Athens. The team got off to a sluggish start…
Competition events for September 16
September 16—More medals for the United States at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Team USA has won a total of 92 Paralympic medals. Events being held on tenth day of competition…
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