John Tartaglio on his way to completing the New York Marathon
On Sunday, November 1st, after starting at 6 AM (just before the sun rose over the Verazanno Bridge), twenty-two-year-old John Tartaglio became the first complete double leg amputee to finish a marathon. John completed the 26.2 miles in 15 hours and 59 minutes, running [...]
By Brian M. Boyce
The Tribune-Star
BLOOMFIELD — Deep within a body full of scars, the spirit of Christmas beats in “B.J. Claus.”
The youthful Santa recently spearheaded a Christmas gift drive on behalf of Riley Hospital for Children. “And I want to do it every year,” B.J. Yoho said.
For the 7-year-old Bloomfield boy whose initials stand for [...]
By CRYSTAL CHAN
Madam Teo Siew Kim with her husband, Mr. Ong Or Thor
IT’S A typical evening and the family of four sit at their table, having dinner.
Three have cutlery in their hands.
Only one, in a wheelchair, eats with cutlery stuck to her magnetic hand gloves.
Such moments remind Madam Teo Siew Kim, 60, of what [...]
By Paula Middlehurst
My husband Simon has got used to me forgetting our wedding anniversary, so it was fabulous when, last year, my mother offered to have the children for a few days so we could celebrate. We booked into my favourite spa hotel in Hampshire.
It was just what we needed – for me, [...]
Molly – the amputee pony. Photo courtesy of Pam Kaster.
Meet Molly. She’s a grey dappled pony who was abandoned by her owners when Katrina hit southern Louisiana, USA. She spent weeks on her own before finally being rescued and taken to a farm where abandoned animals were stockpiled. While there, she was attacked by a [...]
Disabled Sportsperson Of The Year
Nottinghamshire athlete Richard Whitehead is the Disabled Sportsperson of the Year after a record breaking 2009.
Whitehead, who is a double leg amputee, has smashed world bests for the marathon and half-marathon.
He set a new world record in the 2009 Chicago Marathon, on 11 October, with a time of two hours, 50 [...]
By Max Hastings
Last updated at 10:05 PM on 04th December 2009
A young man in shorts stands in a ward chatting to a nurse, idly practising a golf swing with a reversed walking stick. Where his left leg should be, there is instead a densely engineered substitute of steel and hydraulics.
On damp Tarmac outside the building, [...]
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.
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Do you have:
An impairment?
A UK passport?
A sporting background?
The desire to find out if [...]
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