2006 Paralympic Games

[beatie06]

The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games will start in Torino during March 10 thru to March 19th and it"s on the ABC

So There is Our Paralympic Team

Alpine Skiing (Downhill,Giant Slalom,Slalom + Super G)
Scott Adams (LW4)
Dean Calabrese (LW 9/2) if Qualifed
Shannon Dallas (LW11)
Emily Jansen (LW2) if Qualifed
Toby Kane (LW2)
Marty Mayberry (LW3/2)
Micheal Milton (LW2)
Cynthia Mitchell (LW3/1) If Qualifed
Cameron Rahles Rahbula (LW2)
Nicolas Watts (LW4)

BIATHLON + CROSS COUNTRY
James Millar (LW8)

So how many Medals would Australia get during the Paralympics

30 mins of coverage which will go to air Monday – Friday, between 6pm and 6.30pm (including a highlight package of the Opening Ceremony on Day 1)

60 mins of coverage, Saturday and Sunday between 5pm and 6pm

30 or 60 mins daily coverage at 8pm on ABC 2 (digital station).

[Niemmy]

So how many Medals would Australia get during the Paralympics

I think we will win tons mate! Is dwarf tossing still a paraolympic event?

[beatie06]

I think we will win tons mate! Is dwarf tossing still a paraolympic event?

dont be stupid Neimmy is no such thing as Dwaf Tossing in the Paralympics

[Niemmy]

dont be stupid Neimmy is no such thing as Dwarf Tossing in the Paralympics

Pity hehe "O/J"

[Niemmy]

Paralympics sound like some pub drinking game "don't you think?"

[beatie06]

Paralympics sound like some pub drinking game "don't you think?"

no it"s not a Drinking game because it"s like Olympics Games With Disabilties like Amputees, Wheelchairs, Cerebal Palsy, Les Autres and Blind Athletes Complete in Every Sport in Every Medal counts

Except the Interlectual Disabled People who Were banned Since Sydney 2000.

and Here some Winter Sports
ALPINE SKIING
BIATHLON
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING
ICE SLEDGE HOCKEY
and WHEELCHAIR CURLING.

[Niemmy]

Well we might get a medal in that maybe

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TORINO, Italy, March 9: FIVE-TIME Paralympian Michael Milton and first-timer Shannon Dallas have the honour of being Australian flagbearer for the Torino Paralympics Opening Ceremony and team captain respectively for the largest Australian team to ever compete at a Winter Games.

Milton, 32, put Paralympic winter sport on the map in Australia by becoming the first skier to win a gold medal in either Paralympic or Olympic competition with his Slalom victory at the 1992 Albertville Paralympics. He has since won five more golds – the slalom in Lillehammer in 1994 and the downhill, Super-G, slalom and Giant slalom in Salt Lake City in 2002 – plus two silvers and two bronze.

A single leg amputee, MIlton was flagbearer for the six athletes who competed in Salt Lake four years ago and he will be flagbearer tomorrow night (Friday 7pm Italian time, Saturday 5am, Sydney time) for the 10 athletes in the 2006 Winter team.

``It’s an incredible offer twice over,’’ Milton said. ``Opening Ceremony is a special time of the Games when you really feel nervous and things kind of hit you because you know the whole thing has started.

``To be doing something like leading out your country in front of a big crowd is a great experience.’’

Dallas, 28, is Australia’s only sit-skier in Torino. He has had his best season in the 2005-06 northern winter gaining his first podium finishes in international racing, including a European Cup title in Super-G and finishing third overall for the European Cup season. He is also currently ranked fourth in the world for downhill in his `sit-skier’ category.

``This whole season has been like this having one high after another. I’ve made so many inroads with my skiing. My skiing has gone through leaps and bounds,’’ Dallas said.

``So I feel I’m going into the Paralympics on such a confident high. I have such a relaxed feel about things. I’m not really that nervous because I feel this is where I’m meant to be.’’

Chef de Mission and CEO of the Australian Paralympic Committee, Darren Peters, said Dallas had all the qualities of a good communicator and leader.

``He displays such modesty and courage, he has a quick wit and mind and he’s built a relationship with everyone on the team,’’ Peters said. ``We see him as future leadership material.’’

“It is also totally appropriate that Michael is Australia’s flagbearer,’’ Peters said. ``He is such a talented skier and a dedicated athlete, who is known and respected across Europe and North America.’’

Go for it Aussies give us gold ;D

[Niemmy]

Oh well done folks! bring back the gold

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The Opening Ceremony

It will really be the desire to overcome every type of limit to characterise tonight’s show, the Opening Ceremony of the IX Paralympic Winter Games of Torino.
In the almost two hours of choreographies, light games, parades and protocols, athletes, personalities, Institutions representatives, and thousands of spectators will interact to give life to a unique, great message to the world: the need and the possibility of knocking down any type of barrier, from the logistic and practical ones to the psychological and organisational ones. Sport, not only represents an occasion to be together or a therapeutic moment, it is a real occasion for daily challenge.

The singer Ligabue, the mountaineer and writer Reinhold Messner and the pilot Alex Zanardi will be the great protagonists of the show and, thanks to their experience, also the testimonials of this message of hope. During the evening there will be the performance of “Dance Ability”, a dance technique practiced by able bodied people as well as by people with a disability that allows dancers with different physical possibilities to dance together, a “pas de deux” between the dancers Simona Atzori, with a disability, and Luca Alberti, able bodied. And then technology, with most innovative show ever staged in Italy, a moment in which music and light will join in a crescendo of colours to celebrate the knocking down of barriers.

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DAY 1 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS
ALPINE SKIING DOWNHILL
STANDING MEN
Gold: Gerd Schoenfelder (Germany)
Silver: Micheal Milton (Australia)
Bronze: Walter Lackner (Austria)
BEST AUSSIES: Toby Kane (9th), Nicolas Watts (31st), Marty Mayberry (33rd), Scott Adams (40th), Dean Calabrese (44th) and Cameron Rahles Rahbula (DNF)

STANDING WOMEN
Gold: Solene JAMBAQUE (France)
Silver: Reinheld Moelller (Germany)
Bronze: Iveta CHLEBAKOVA (SLOVAKIA)

BIATHLON

Mens 12.5km VISION IMPARED
Gold: Vitaliy LUKYANENKO (ukraine)
Silver: Irek MANNANOV (russia)
Bronze: Wilhelm Brem (Germany)

Womens 12.5km VISION IMPARED
Gold: Miyuki KOBAYASHI (Japan)
Silver: Tetyana SMYRNOVA (ukraine)
Bronze: Verena Bentele (Germany)

Mens 12.5km Standing
Gold: Rustam GARIFOULLIN (russia)
Silver: Alfis MAKAMEDINOV (russia)
Bronze: Nils Erik ULSET (Norway)
Best Aussie: Kenneth James Millar (20th)

Men's 12.5 km Sitting
Gold: Vladimir KISELEV (russia)
Silver: Taras KRYJANOVSKI (russia)
bronze: Mikhail TERENTIEV (russia)

A RUSSIAN TRIFECTA

Womens 10km Sitting
Gold: Olena IURKOVSKA (Ukraine)
Silver: Lyudmyla PAVLENKO (Ukraine)
Bronze: Svitlana TRYFONOVA (Ukraine)

A UKRAINE TRIFECTA

Womens 12.5 Standing
Gold: Anne FLORIET (France)
Silver: Yuliya BATENKOVA (Ukraine)
Bronze: Shoko OTA (Japan)

MEDAL TALLY
1 Russia 2 3 1 6
Ukraine 2 3 1 6
3 France 2 0 0 2
4 Germany 1 1 2 4
5 Japan 1 0 1 2
6 Australia 0 1 0 1
7 Austria 0 0 1 1
Norway 0 0 1 1
Slovakia 0 0 1 1

Nice to Have Australia getting a Silver Medal

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ICE SLEDGE HOCKEY

NORWAY THRASHED ITALY 12-0

[Niemmy]

NORWAY THRASHED ITALY 12-0

Ouchhh

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DAY 2 OF THE WINTER PARALYMPICS
ALPINE SKIING DOWNHILL
Visually Impaired Women
Gold: Pascale CASANOVA (france)
Silver: Sabine Gasteiger (austria)
Bronze: Silvia Parente (Italy)

visually Impared Men
Gold: Gerd Gradwohl (Germany)
Silver: Chris Williamson (Canada)
Bronze: Nicolas BEREJNY (France)

Sitting women
Gold: Laurie Stephens (USA)
Silver: Kuniko Obinata (Japan)
Bronze: Claudia Loesch (Asutria)

Sitting Men
Gold: Kevin Bramble (USA)
Silver: Chris Delvin Young (USA)
Bronze: Denis Barbet (France)
WORST AUSSIE: Shannon Dallas (DNF)

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING
Womens 2.5km Sitting
Gold: Olena Iurkovsa (Ukraine)
Silver: Liudmila VAUCHOK (Belarus)
Bronze: Lyudmyla Pavlenko (Ukraine)

Mens 5km Sitting
Gold: Taras KRYJANOVSKI (Russia)
Silver: Iurii KOSTIUK (Ukraine)
Bronze: Alain MARGUERETTAZ (France)

Mens 5km Standing
Gold: Steven Cook (USA)
Silver: Siarhei SILCHANKA (Belarus)
Bronze: Thomas Oelsner (Germany)
BEST AUSSIE James Kenneth MIller (23rd)

Womens 5km Standing
Gold: Katarzyna ROGOWIEC (Poland)
Silver: Anna BURMISTROVA (russia)
Bronze: Yuliya BATENKOVA (Ukraine)

Mens 5km Visually Impared
Gold: Brian Mckeever (Canada)
Silver: Frank Hoefle (Germany)
Bronze: Hedge Flo (Norway)

Womens 5km Visually Impared
Gold: Verena Bentele (Germany)
Silver: Tatiana ILYUCHENKO (Russia)
Bronze: Lioubov VASILIEVA (Russia)

ICE SLEDGE HOCKEY
CANADA THRASHED THE HAPLESS ITALY 12-0

MEDAL TALLY TOP 10
1 Russia 3 5 2 10
2 Ukraine 3 4 3 10
3 Germany 3 2 3 8
4 United States 3 1 0 4
5 France 3 0 3 6
6 Japan 1 1 1 3
7 Canada 1 1 0 2
8 Poland 1 0 0 1
9 Belarus 0 2 0 2
10 Austria 0 1 2 3
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11 Australia 0 1 0 1

[Niemmy]

No winners today!