Sports Injuries

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London, 200 days to go to the 2012 Paralympic Games
Cinquew
LONDON - On the eve of 200 days to go to the London 2012 Paralympic Games, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) have announced the completion of Eton Manor on the Olympic ...
London 2012 Paralympics: Tanni Grey-Thompson assesses the five Paralympians ...Telegraph.co.uk
New permanent Paralympics venue complete 200 days ahead of GamesShanghai Daily (subscription)

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Ottawa jogger sues blind Olympic athletes for running over her
Calgary Herald
OTTAWA — Top Canadian paralympians Jon and Jason Dunkerley are facing a personal-injury lawsuit for crashing into another runner on a morning jog along the Rideau Canal in 2010. The Dunkerley brothers, both born blind, are being sued for $350000 in a ...

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Former U.S. Olympic skier's spirit still shining through, • Bill Johnson, a ...
Bend Bulletin
Johnson went through knee and back injuries that curtailed his career and prevented him from defending his title at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. “It would've been great if he would've kept the charge going,” Mahre said. “I think it all came too quickly, ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Chile's Fernando González to retire after 12-year career
Santiago Times
Fernando González has announced he will retire from professional tennis, citing recurring back, knee, and hip injuries as contributing factors for his inability to play on. “These months were tough for me in that I realized that I do not have the ...
Fernando Gonzalez Ends Very Successful Career: Fan's PerspectiveYahoo! Sports
Fernando Gonzalez Sets Date for Retirement10sBalls
Chile's Gonzalez, 31, says he'll retire next monthCBSSports.com
Washington Post -Long Island Tennis Magazine
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FS Southwest
Mitts looking to end on high note in Olympics
FS Southwest
Now she's working her way back from another injury and with one goal in mind-playing in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London for what would be one heck of a swan song. "I missed the last two World Cups due to injuries and always said I want to play ...

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Los Angeles Times
Jill Kinmont Boothe dies at 75; ski champ disabled in crash became role model
Los Angeles Times
She refused to let her injuries get in the way of becoming a teacher and a painter. Her story was the subject of a book as well as two films. The life of Jill Kinmonte Boothe, shown painting in her home studio last year, was the subject of a 1966 book, ...
Jill Kinmont Boothe, skiing champion paralyzed at 18, whose story was told in ...Sun-Sentinel
Disabled skier Jill Kinmont Boothe dies at 75WND.com

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Long Beach boxer is fighting for Olympic glory
Contra Costa Times
She was out of the ring for most of 2011 due to a shoulder injury, leaving people - including herself - to wonder whether she would recover for the National Police Athletic League boxing championships, the final chance to qualify for the Olympic trials ...

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The Olympic Committee likely will not be calling
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Gayane Zokhrabov, then 58, was knocked down by the flying corpse of Hiroyuki Joho, 18, during a rainstorm in Chicago in 2008, and in December 2011 filed a lawsuit against Joho's estate for compensation for the various injuries she suffered that day ...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Superman, Springsteen's E Street Band lead 2012 NJ Hall of Fame class
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Most remembered for his role as Superman in the movie franchise, he was a seasoned actor who became a quadriplegic after a horse accident and later lobbied on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries and founded the Christopher & Dana Reeve ...
Super Class of 2012 for NJ Hall of FameNew Jersey Monthly (blog)

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Stuff.co.nz
Fernando Gonzalez Ends Very Successful Career: Fan's Perspective
Yahoo! Sports
The former top-5 player from Chile has been hampered by injuries in recent years. Gonzalez is ending a career that the casual fan might not appreciate as being highly successful, considering he played in the considerable shadows of Roger Federer, ...
Fernando Gonzalez Sets Date for Retirement10sBalls
Fernando Gonzalez to Retire in MarchLong Island Tennis Magazine
Chilean tennis star Fernando Gonzalez to retire after next month's tournament ...Washington Post
CBSSports.com -ESPN.co.uk
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London 2012 Olympics: Team GB athletes face difficult balancing act between ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
By Simon Hart Olympics Last updated: February 10th, 2012 The cruciate knee ligament injury suffered by British taekwondo star Sarah Stevenson on a training camp in Mexico is a brutal reminder that we have now entered the business end of the Olympic ...

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Teen girl from Afghanistan to box at Olympics
CBS News
Another woman, Mehboda Ahdyar, was scheduled to go to the 2008 Beijing Games but couldn't compete because of injuries. "I am well aware that my opponents in the London 2012 Olympics are more powerful and even twice as good as me, but I have prepared ...

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Broken bones and broken dreams: BMX star's Olympic bid
CNN
Off-road bicycle racing is a rough and tumble world, and three-time BMX world champion Shanaze Reade has suffered enough injuries to end any sporting career. Fortunately for the British Olympian, she is made of stern stuff, mentally and physically.

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Zee News
Hijab ban driving women away from soccer
Chicago Tribune
While physical Olympic sports such as rugby and taekwondo allow Muslim women to wear the headscarf in competition, soccer, the world's most popular sport, remains against its use, citing safety concerns. Last year the Iranian women's soccer team were ...
Women Abandon Soccer for Hijab BanOnislam.net

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Sydney Morning Herald
Bankrupt D'Arcy says he's assured of London place if he makes team
Sydney Morning Herald
D'Arcy filed for bankruptcy last November, claiming he had about $800000 in debts, including $180000 owed to Cowley as compensation for his injuries, after a civil action. After the bankruptcy announcement, the Australian Olympic Committee said the ...
D'Arcy upbeat over Olympics selectionFox Sports
London a goer: D'ArcyThe Age
D'Arcy upbeat about Olympic prospectsSky News Australia

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Is Squeezing 100% Out Of Yourself Worth The Risk?
velonews.competitor.com
It's a struggle all runners deal with regardless of ability level–from high school harrier to collegiate standout, and from local weekend warrior to Olympic hero. Some athletes have been coined as injury prone, and for one reason or another they are ...

Kansas City Star
2014 Sochi Olympic downhill 'venue so cool,' but course needs some tweaks
Vancouver Sun
VANCOUVER — Icy fast in spots, but set too tight in others, the new men's downhill course to be used for the Sochi 2014 Olympics is proving a significant challenge this week for the world's top speed skiers. The resort town of Krasnaya Polyana, Russia ...
Canadian speed skiers say Sochi Olympic downhill course needs workWinnipeg Free Press
Early Predictions for Canada's Olympic Team in 2014The Hockey Writers

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USA TODAY
Chile's Gonzalez, 31, says he'll retire next month
CBSSports.com
He said he no longer had the energy to play at the top level after having been bothered by back, knee and hip injuries for several years. Gonzalez won 11 ATP events and the three Olympic medals -- gold, silver and bronze. He reached the final of the ...
Chilean tennis star Fernando Gonzalez to retireSacramento Bee
Chile's Fernando Gonzalez to retireESPN

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Stacy Sykora playing again, eyeing Olympics after crash
ESPN (blog)
So are the 11 days afterward, days the three-time US Olympic volleyball player spent in an intensive care unit of a Brazilian hospital, first in a medically induced coma, then conscious but with an uncertain prognosis due to her closed head injury.

Daily Mail
Waterfield insists him and Daley are on track for London Games despite injuries
Daily Mail
By Sportsmail Reporter Peter Waterfield is confident his platform partnership with Tom Daley is on track despite injury affecting their preparations for the London Olympics. Waterfield and Daley have both been struck down by niggling complaints over ...

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