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.

I'd always competed against other able bodied athletes.

Should we train great mathematicians in school?

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And only a few of these guys are going to go on in the sport.

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.

What happened at the age of 16 is that I found out about this movement, an organization called Athletes in Action.

They're world class athletes, and they also are world class forest ecology scientists.

I'm not saying we shouldn't train great mathematicians, great linguist, and all the rest.

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

I don't know... but are racewalkers athletes? Most certainly.

After a few months of joining the league, they had become star athletes, and even received an invitation to go to England to train with the professionals.

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.

There are also no obstacles as far as dress or social culture are concerned to prevent women from joining in any sports activity. All teams which take part in regional and international sporting events include both sportsmen and sportswomen.

Furthermore, it guarantees to preserve the universality of the Games and ensures the participation in them of athletes throughout the world by taking responsibility for the preparation of six athletes and two leaders per country.

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.

Barcelona was also the site of a procession of athletes whose countries had been torn by tragic conflict their participation helped fire the hope that one day the wounds then as now, open wounds would be healed for the benefit of peace and human dignity.