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Investigations by the sport's governing body (FIG) found that she was only 14 at the 2000 Games. (To be eligible the gymnastic athletes must turn 16 during the Olympic year). FIG recommended the IOC take the medal back as her scores aided China in winning the team bronze. The US women's team, who had come fourth in the event, moved up to third ...
Loretta Claiborne is an American global speaker and multi-sport athlete who competes in the Special Olympics. She has been honored with the 1996 Arthur Ashe ESPY Courage Award presented to her by Denzel Washington. Claiborne was the first Special Olympics athlete elected to the Special Olympics International Board of Directors. [1]
Disability sports classification is a system that allows for fair competition between people with different types of disabilities.. Historically, the process has been overseen by 2 groups: specific disability type sport organizations that cover multiple sports, and specific sport organizations that cover multiple disability types including amputations, cerebral palsy, deafness, intellectual ...
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Common classes of intellectual disabilities that meet minimum eligibility requirements for Special Olympics include Fragile X Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and people with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Apert Syndrome. In a few cases, it also includes people who acquired their disability as children as a result of traumatic ...
For one day, a mother of a middle school kid with autism didn't have to worry if her son was eating lunch alone. That's because one Florida State football player made sure Bo Paske had a lunch buddy.
It takes a lot of encouragement to be an Olympic athlete, and that can come in many forms -- whether it be good food, helping others, or making mom proud. Olympic athletes reveal what motivates ...
The herd behavior of the horse means that these animals have a natural tendency to follow each other, which avoids having to hold them all the time. [49] Temple Grandin focuses on the horse's movements, which create an imbalance that the autistic person has to compensate for, leading to work on body posture.