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Interesting athletes from other countries for Kai
Tweet Topic Started: Jul 29 2012, 11:10 AM (215 Views)
Kai complains that american news only covers american athletes. Lets give her some good background stories from other countries.
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Clara Hughes
Winter sport? Summer sport? Clara Hughes is an athlete for all seasons. She’s one of the biggest stories to emerge in Canadian sports, and she’s not finished yet. A six-time Olympic medalist in cycling and speed skating; she’s the only athlete in history to win multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Games. She’s back on the bike with her eyes firmly set on London 2012. But there’s far more to Clara than athletic achievements.
For Clara, success means more than earning medals. It means having a voice and using the opportunity to reach out and help others. When she uses this voice, it’s loud and clear.
After winning gold in 2006, Clara donated $10,000 of her personal savings to the Right to Play programs. This donation challenged Canadians to support the cause, raising over half a million dollars for the international humanitarian organization that uses sport for development. In 2010, she donated her $10,000 medal bonus to the Vancouver inner city school program, ‘Take a Hike’, which uses adventure based learning to give youth at risk a better direction in life.
She is the National Spokesperson for Bell Canada’s Mental Health initiative and the ‘Let’s Talk’ campaign. By sharing past struggles with depression, Clara has helped break down the stigma associated with mental illness.
I'm fed up with it! Pistorius out to silence critics as amputee prepares to compete at Games
By Sportsmail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 12:01 GMT, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:02 GMT, 21 July 2012
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Oscar Pistorius has admitted he is fed up with critics questioning his right to compete in the Olympics.
Pistorius will become the first amputee sprinter to compete in a Games after being selected for South Africa's individual and relay 400 metres at London 2012.
Double amputee Pistorius, known as the 'Blade Runner' due to the prosthetic carbon fibre limbs he uses, already made history when competing at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu. Blade runner: Pistorius runs with two prosthetic limbs
Blade runner: Pistorius runs with two prosthetic limbs
The 25-year-old has had to field numerous questions over the years about whether his artificial legs giving him an unfair advantage.
Indeed, he was banned from from competing alongside able-bodied athletes just before the 2008 Olympics - a ruling he later had overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
And although that has not stopped the sniping, Pistorius is desperate to put the issue to one side.
'You'll find a journalist who has not approached the story properly, or somebody with the title of professor or doctor who wants to make a name for himself,' he told the Daily Telegraph.
'He will argue that water is dry, or that orange used to be green. They will try to be controversial for the sake of it.
'Honestly, this is not something I can give much more energy to. I would be answering these questions for days.'
Olympic legend and 400 metre world record holder, Michael Johnson, recently stated that Pistorius's competing was 'unfair' on other able-bodied competitors - even though he considers the 'Blade Runner' a friend. Sprinter: Pistorius will be the first amputee sprinter to compete at an Olympic Games
Sprinter: Pistorius will be the first amputee sprinter to compete at an Olympic Games
Pistorius, who will also defend his T44 titles in the 100m, 200m and 400m at the Paralympics, has a personal best time of 45.07 seconds in the latter event and has a modest target in London.
'A decent position in the semi-final,' he added. 'I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu.
'I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
'This time I'll have to go flat-out from the start.
'I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
'I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, "Can you just pass me my leg?" But I don't ever think about my disability.
'Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.'
The Chinese won the first gold medal of the games: women's 10 meter air rifle.
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