Winter Paralympic Games 2010 Lead Up News

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A Vancouver-based company has been chosen to produce the 2010 Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies. After a three-month international search, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics announced yesterday that Patrick Roberge Productions will produce the $4.8-million ceremonies in Vancouver and Whistler.

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Paralympic News 2009 - 01 - 28

A Vancouver-based company has been chosen to produce the 2010 Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies. After a three-month international search, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics announced yesterday that Patrick Roberge Productions will produce the $4.8-million ceremonies in Vancouver and Whistler.

Sean Rose, the UK's top rated disabled skier, has picked up two medals at the 2009 IPCAS (International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing) World Cup in Italy. Showing off his skills in speed and slalom skiing Sean, sponsored by indoor snow slopes SNO!zone, won Great Britain's first world cup medals, a silver for Downhill and bronze in Super Combined Slalom at the event which was held in the Italian resort of Sestriere, near Turin. After winning his first world cup medals Sean now has his sights set on the next winter Paralympic games in Vancouver.

Dame Tanni Grey Thompson DBE - the 11 times Paralympic gold medalist - will be giving a lecture in Medway next month. The Medway Council organized lecture, entitled Seize the Day: The Battle to be the Best will take place on Tuesday, February 10 in the Pilkington Building, University of Kent, Medway Campus. Tanni is Britain's best-known Paralympics athlete, having performed at world-class level, in distances ranging from 100m to the marathon. Tanni's career has taken her around the world to every major international event. Email Emma.spencer@medway.gov.uk or phone 01634 331055

TAYLOR CHACE recently returned from Nagano, Japan, with a silver medal from the Four Nations Tournament, a four-day competition from Jan. 13-16 that featured many of the world's top sled hockey standouts. The assistant captain of the United States National Team, who suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury playing junior hockey in October 2002, led the team in points. The team's silver-medal showing was a significant achievement for the program. Chace, a national team skater since late 2005, said the U.S. previously struggled to beat the world's top teams. Playing in a gold-medal game was tough to fathom.

A PARALYMPIC hopeful from Woodville has been awarded a scholarship to enable him to further his quest for 2012 stardom. Darren Greenfield, looking for sponsorship for the 2012 London Paralympics, with Leanne Shorthouse and Margaret Leedham Darren Greenfield, 37, of The City, has moved another step closer to his dream to compete in the Paralympics in London, after being awarded the funding under the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS). Potential sponsors can telephone Mr Greenfield on 07784 426614.

Nick Scandone, a sailor who won a gold medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China six years after having been stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, died Friday at his Fountain Valley, Calif., home. He was 42. Sailing since he was 8, Mr. Scandone was an All-American yachtsman at the University of California, Irvine, who fell just short of qualifying for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He left competitive sailing until being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2002.

Everyone knows that the Olympics and Paralympics are all about sports. The relationship between culture and the Olympics is less obvious. The 2009 Cultural Olympiad is a multi-disciplinary festival of more than 400 performances in dance, music, theater and visual arts, and takes place in 40 theaters, galleries, hotels and performance venues and outdoor locations throughout Metro Vancouver and in Whistler and Pemberton. The Cultural Olympiad 2009 Program Guide is free at public libraries, community centers, art galleries and other locations. Details are also available at: www.vancouver2010.com/culturalolympiad

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