They have also qualified four athletes in the individual dressage competition, five athletes in the individual eventing competition, and four athletes in the individual jumping competition.

And I'd never competed on a disabled level, you know I'd always competed against other able bodied athletes.

There was a notable drop in participation by athletes from the United States in events held in Cuba.

The summit brought together over 300 representatives of sports organizations and athletes to discuss the role and implications of sport on the environment.

But five lucky Kenya based South Sudanese athletes were selected to join the refugee team.

Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine are the principal explorers of the Redwood forest canopy. They're world class athletes, and they also are world class forest ecology scientists.

The Georgian Paralympic Committee was established in 2003 and the country sent its first athletes to compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

Among those countries that responded, 47.8 per cent reported persons with disabilities participating as amateur athletes while 24.8 per cent reported them participating as professional athletes.

We're picturing normal people with normal bodies and normal (or less than) fitness levels, as opposed to the Adonis yummy six pack professional athletes, playing a good game of football.

Brazilian athletes, actors, and society members joined the action on the World Bank Brasil's Facebook page to inspire Brazilians to speak out against domestic violence in Brazil.

It is almost impossible for some countries to produce medal winning athletes in some sports Ethiopia has only one swimming pool per six million people.

Between April 2004 and May 2005, four delegations each comprising five Cuban sporting officials were denied visas to travel to the United States, even when they were intending to participate in important Olympic Solidarity meetings and courses.