Accomplishments and triumphs in sports, recreation, endurance, and
physical disabilities. Ordinary people doing extra-ordinary things.
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Article Source: The New York Times
OCALA, Fla. — Ilse Telesmanich, 90, sprained her ankle hiking in South Africa last August. She tried to keep going on the three-week trip, she said, hobbled as she was.
Mr. Lackey, 89, took up wing-walking. Last summer, he strapped his feet to the top of a single-engine biplane, like the daredevils of aviation’s early days, and flew across the English Channel at 160 miles per hour — with nothing between him and the wild blue yonder but goggles and layers of clothing to fight the wind-chill.
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Article Source: The New York Times
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. — Three times a week, Michael Landers takes the Long Island Rail Road to Penn Station. He rides the subway downtown for two stops, then walks two blocks to SPiN New York, at 23rd Street and Park Avenue South, where for three hours he practices table tennis in his quest to become the best player in the United States. On the train home, he does his math homework.
At 15, Landers is the youngest player to win the men’s national singles championship.
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Article Source: The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio's blind-school band practices day and night for its moment in the sun at the Tournament of Roses Parade
The 32 blind players, 36 volunteer marching assistants, two band directors and one music assistant really, really want to do it right. The Ohio State School for the Blind Marching Panthers are going to Pasadena, Calif., to march in the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day. They'll be the parade's first blind marching band. The smallest band, too.
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Article Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Nora Naraghi is barred by her gender from taking a motorcyle out on Iran's roads, but has defied discrimination to become the country's motocross champion.
Born into a family of motorcyclist enthusiasts, where motocross biking is a part of everyday life, Nora was prevented from obtaining a motorcycle licence, so she hit the sandy trails instead.
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Article Source: The Boston Globe
Paralympic hopefuls don’t steer from challenges
NEWRY, Maine - The first time he skied the dauntingly steep double black diamond Vortex trail at Sunday River, Griffin LaMarre was apprehensive.
“I was pretty nervous and scared at first,’’ acknowledged the seventh-grader from Haverhill, Mass.
That’s not surprising for a teenager but LaMarre, 13, has tackled more super steeps like White Heat, and is being groomed with two other young skiers in the nonprofit Maine Handicapped Skiing program for a shot at the 2014 Paralympic Games in Russia.
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