Topic spans: 1976 - 2003
Playing to Win: Canada at the Paralympics
Wheelchair racers speeding to victory, blind swimmers competing for gold, and disabled skiers pushing their bodies to the limit. These are today's Paralympians. They train hard. They play to win. And in recent years, Canadians have been winning big at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics began as a postwar sporting event designed to get injured ex-soldiers moving again. But by the 1980s the Games had evolved into an elite international competition.
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Marie Claire Ross, champion blind swimmer
Medium: Television
Program: CBC Evening News
Broadcast Date: Feb. 22, 1996
Guest(s): Marie Claire Ross
Reporter: Barbara Ondrusek
Duration: 1:35
Last updated:
March 3, 2008
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July 17, 1976
After a seemingly never-ending series of problems, the Montreal Olympics are finally about to begin.
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Canada's sweetheart, an overlooked hockey team, the goodtime bobsleigh playboys, and the tiger from British Columbia – these are Canada's post-war Olympic gold players. In an era that predated big...
Marie Claire Ross, champion blind swimmer.
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Last updated: March 3, 2008.
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