1. Wheelchair athlete Ian Hayden from Sutton Courtenay near Abingdon overcame an arm injury to pick up a second silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Barcelona. 2. And the film makes a point of showing how its wheelchair athletes fight and whoop and holler as any other athletes might. 3. As in most city marathons, the wheelchair athletes start the race half an hour before the first phalanx of elite runners sets off. 4. Besides, we can probably go faster in a car than the runners can run or wheelchair athletes can wheel. 5. But it is precisely this point that upsets some wheelchair athletes. 6. But the gains for the professional wheelchair athlete threatened to affect the nonelite disabled athlete negatively. 7. But trouble inevitably arises when the fastest runners, accompanied by cars carrying reporters and race officials, catch up to the slower wheelchair athletes. 8. Columns Drive in suburban east Cobb County is a popular training ground for wheelchair athletes as well as for cyclists and runners because of its bike lanes. 9. For Guzman and other wheelchair athletes, the New York City Marathon has always been a bittersweet event. 10. For wheelchair athletes, the New York City Marathon has always been a bittersweet event. |
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