Sentence examples for paralympic from inspiring English sources

The Young Australian of 2014 is 21 year old Jacqueline Freney, a paralympic swimmer who won an impressive eight gold medals at the London 2012 Paralympic games, the most of any Paralympian in a single games.

Aled Davies was named as the SJA's paralympic sportsman of the year after his F42 discus and F42/44 shotput gold medals at the world championships.

And Hannah Cockcroft, the T34 100m and 200m world champion, was named as the year's paralympic sportswoman.

The closing ceremony for the world's biggest sporting event for disabled competitors was blighted: traffic accidents caused many Paralympic athletes' disabilities.

Who sends most competitors to the Paralympics?THE biggest national team at the Paralympic games in London is from the host country, Great Britain.

Activists, trade unionists and supermarket workers have launched a campaign to highlight low pay and "in-work poverty" at Sainsbury's, one of the Paralympic sponsors.

The Paralympic protests have been organised by the campaign group Disabled People Against the Cuts [Dpac].

Even without the once-in-a-lifetime exuberance of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2012 would have always been remembered as a high watermark for British sport.

Last year's Olympic and Paralympic Games – covered brilliantly by the BBC and Channel 4 – showed us at our very best.

This stems from the broadcaster's public service remit and meant its partnership with the London 2012 Paralympic Games was a perfect fit, says Brooke.

As the triumphal Olympic and Paralympic summer fades, and time is called on the large-scale, knock-'em-dead Cultural Olympiad work that was made to showcase British arts to a watching world, the industry faces a grim autumn.