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- adjective Pertaining to the
Paralympics and their participants, staff etc.
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Examples
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The pair won multiple world and national paralympic championships as well as medals at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens on the road and track.
Q&A with Katie Compton: Mountain bike and cyclocross for 2011? 2011
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Heather Mills trying out for British paralympic skiing team ...
Amanda Bynes quits acting at 24; Lady Gaga banned from Yankees' clubhouse? 2010
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In paralympic swimming, the American team set 36 national records and five world marks, including two by Georgia's Ashley Owens, who made her mark in the 200 and 400-meter freestyle.
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Aimee Mullins, paralympic athlete, actor, and model, is being featured in a new Kenneth Cole campaign about "25 years of non-uniform thinking," and Sunday Feb. 24 the Kenneth Cole ad featuring her appeared in The New York Times Style Magazine on spring women's fashion.
Aimee Mullins pictured in ad in NY Times style section BA Haller 2008
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Sun Valley, Idaho, will host the 2011 and 2012 cross-country mountain bike championships and Augusta, Georgia, will host the junior, U23, elite and paralympic road nationals for those two years.
Sun Valley and Augusta to host USA Cycling national championships 2010
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The volleyball players, then representing their individual home nations, qualified for the inaugural GB team in trials, andUKSport provided £4. 1m over three years to 2009 for an elite training programme for the men's, women's and paralympic teams, to polish them to Olympic standard.
London 2012 Olympics: Volleyball players on their bikes to raise cash 2010
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Frida: I think you would be like me, 'The Others', which do have sub-catagories as for example, since riflery is a paralympic event giving someone with spasticity a rifle isn't the brightest idea so for example once rated those who need mounts and there are two DIFFERENT mounts for the two DIFFERENT classifications including those who cannot consistantly pull the trigger I believe.
Times Colonist 10K 2009: why I should race Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Natalie du Toit on her paralympic achievements and on winning the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award
Motion without notice by the Chief Whip on Natalie du Toit 2008
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The achievements of the paralympic team, and the determined efforts of all our national sports men and women, highlight the importance of further developing and promoting sports in this country;
Motion without notice by the Chief Whip on the Paralympic games 2008
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The achievements of the paralympic team, and the determined efforts of all our national sports men and women, highlight the importance of further developing and promoting sports in this country.
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