Tag: Para sport
Inclusion in canoeing: A boathouse for everyone – Sport
In the course of the European Championship, the language then came to the beautiful ramp. With an exemplary, gentle, long ascent, it led up the regatta course to the wooden…
Special Olympics in Berlin: tutoring for German sport – sport
In the words of Kai Polefka, the difficult sounds easy. “You always have to see what the goalkeeper is doing,” he says. Then, with his arm stretched towards the ceiling,…
Friedhelm Julius Beucher in an interview after the Paralympics – Sport
Interviewed by Sebastian Fisher Friedhelm Julius Beucher, 75, President of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS), left a message of peace on Thursday on the stone arches in the athletes’…
Paralympics: In Search of Youth – Sport
The cross-country skiing coach Albert Kürner had always thought it was a cliché that professional athletes speak into microphones after success: that they have not yet “realized” what they have…
Leonie Walter at the 2022 Paralympics: St. Peter is upside down – sport
Since Tuesday morning, Renate Walter has been able to describe what happens when the community of St. Peter in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is happy about a gold medal. It’s…
Paralympics in Beijing: Suddenly medals around the neck
The role model of the biathlete and cross-country skier Marco Maier was his competitor in the past few months. “He dominates the competition so much, it’s just phenomenal. I want…
Opening of the Paralympics: Silent Cry for Peace – Sport
The applause, as recorded by the microphones, sounded polite, not frenetic, but respectful as they entered the stadium: 20 Ukrainian athletes on Friday evening in Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” arena. Some…
The Successful Revolt of the Paralympic World – Sport
From where Andrew Parsons had been sitting the day before, he looked down from his podium again on Thursday, down at the journalists in Beijing’s Main Press Centre. He wasn’t…
Permission to take off for Russia and Belarus: Paralympic looking the other way – sport
If there were any doubts that the 13th Winter Games for people with disabilities would take place under the impression of war, then they were null and void with the…