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Parathletics: Want to tri?
Youth and adult physically challenged athletes (ages 7 and up) will have the opportunity to learn about participating in paratriathlons at the Mid-Atlantic Region Paratriathlon clinic April 21-22 at the Bennett Institute for Physically Challenged Sports,...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Disabilities
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Tatyana McFadden: Howard County's 'Lady Velocity'
World-class track athlete Tatyana McFadden is not a flashy person. Soft-spoken with a thin face, dark brown eyes and a deceptively muscular frame, she is not the type to speak of her accomplishments without some prompting. But when she does talk about...
Tags: Amputation, Birth Defects, Girl Scouts of the USA, College Sports, Chicago Marathon
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Bits & Pieces: Bicycling Advocates to hold their second annual bicycle forum
Howard County is a wonderful place to ride bikes. There are nearly 94 miles of bike pathways that weave among the villages in Columbia, and there many rural roads out in the county are suitable for riding. The scenery looks to be gorgeous this fall....Tags: Cycling, College Sports, High School Sports, Track Cycling, Beijing Games
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Taneytown man wins gold for Special Olympics U.S. team
From Syd Lea's home in Taneytown, the Pennsylvania line is less than two miles away.
When the accomplished cyclist ventures outside from his home gymnasium, he often crosses the Mason-Dixon Line as part of his training regimen.
That's not the only...Tags: Cycling, Speed Skating, College Sports, World Games, High School Sports
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Phelps' worldwide splash
He has traveled to so many cities and countries since the Olympics ended, when he wakes up in the morning, it's almost impossible for Michael Phelps to remember the date, or even what day it is. Is today Friday? Or is it Thursday? Without looking at...Tags: MTV Video Music Awards (tv program), Tony the Tiger (fictional animal), 2016 Olympic Games, Football, Olympic Games
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Paralympic swimmer sets sights on gold
For 30 minutes they swim together, two strangers lapping the pool in adjacent lanes at the Merritt Athletic Club in Towson. Finally, the older woman climbs out and slumps on the deck, in awe of the teenager still plugging away.
"She just keeps going,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Olympic Games, Michael Phelps, Bars and Clubs, Surgery
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A salute to a Md. athlete
Sun reporterA Beijing-bound athlete from Maryland is featured on McDonald's beverage cups, but it's not Michael Phelps. Instead, it's Tatyana McFadden, a wheelchair sprint racer from Howard County who also is featured in a television commercial for Hilton Hotels...Tags: John F. Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, High School Sports, Beijing Games, Schools
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Towson prepares for crowds along Phelps parade route
It's beginning to sound like a military operation, complete with maps, complex logistics, moving machinery and marchers in uniform.
With plans for the Oct. 4 parade to honor Michael Phelps and other Maryland Olympians rapidly taking shape, what became...Tags: M&T Bank Stadium, Benjamin L. Cardin, Elijah E. Cummings, Towson, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Towson parade to honor Phelps, fellow Olympians
Eleven Olympic athletes with Maryland ties - foremost among them Michael Phelps - are being invited to take part next month in a parade in their honor in Towson, followed by a salute at Fort McHenry that will be capped off with fireworks. The formal...Tags: Executive Branch, Towson, Katie Hoff, Fells Point, Sheila Dixon
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Teaching kids to stay in the game
The basketball players settle into drills with the precision and fluidity of a vintage squad - despite the fact that many of them cannot move their bodies from the waist down.
Thanks in part to Gerry Herman, they're a wheelchair team to be reckoned...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Movies, Colleges and Universities, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Family
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Determination fuels an Olympic dream
Sun StaffFor an hour and a half and 4,000 yards, pausing only to swig from her water bottle, Jessica Long swims. Butterfly, freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke - a workout she repeats four or five times a week. The 12-year-old Baltimore County girl radiates a...Tags: Arts, Dining and Drinking, Colleges and Universities, Wrestling, Family
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Equal-access bill passes
Sun reporterAmid its flurry of final-day action, the General Assembly unanimously approved a bill requiring schools to provide disabled students access to sports programs, either among themselves or with able-bodied students. Under the measure known as the Fitness...Tags: John F. Williams, Teaching and Learning, Laws, Annapolis, Labor Legislation
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