Overcoming Disabilities Alan Dickson Outlines Efforts to Increase Athletes' Opportunities. Alan Dickson Outlines Efforts to Increase Athletes' Opportunities. Doug Gillon Reports
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THE Paralympic Games open in Turin on Friday and it is not all about performance and medals. Competitors aim to inspire and excite the world. They also hope to change perceptions about that problematic and questionable word: disability.
Five Scottish curlers in the 21-strong UK team have won the world title in each of the past two years, so hopes are high Britain's Paralympic haul will be better than the solitary silver medal of the Winter Olympics.See the full content of this document
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Overcoming Disabilities Alan Dickson Outlines Efforts to Increase Athletes' Opportunities. Alan Dickson Outlines Efforts to Increase Athletes' Opportunities. Doug Gillon Reports
Although the Paralympic flame is about to be lit, the disability sport agenda is already ignited. Alan Dickson, chief executive of Capability Scotland, is a member of the board of the International Paralympic Committee which organises the Games, and the only Scot ...
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