An American-born Ukrainian woman carried the US flag at the closing of the Paralympics-2018

The Paralympic Games in South Korea will end on March 18, in which the American team took a confident first place, having won 36 medals (13 gold, 15 silver and 8 bronze). This Paralympics became special and memorable for Oksana Masters, an American athlete with Ukrainian roots, ...

An orphan from Ukraine, adopted by an American, became a Paralympic champion in Pkhenchkhane

Three weeks after her elbow injury and one day after she fell and retired from the race, the American Oksana Masters, originally from Ukraine, won gold at the Paralympic Games. Masters, a four-time Paralympic champion, won Wednesday's cross-country sprint, ...

Legless Ukrainian, adopted in the USA, became a Paralympic sports star

On March 9, the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games will start in South Korea. Oksana Masters will represent the American team in cross-country skiing in Pyeongchang. Born in Ukraine with a disability, then adopted by an American family, she was able to build a successful sports career in the United States.…

Willpower team: stories of members of the US Paralympic team

The Summer Paralympics will be held from September 7 to 18 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 289 athletes representing the United States. ForumDaily collected the stories of some of them. Tatyana McFadden [fbvideo link=»https://www.facebook.com/golosameriki/videos/10153698857132026/» width=»500″ height=»400″ onlyvideo=»1″] The story of US Paralympic champion Tatyana McFadden seems unique...

Russian Paralympians will not go to the Games in Rio

The Arbitration for Sports in Lausanne did not satisfy the appeal of the Russian Paralympic Committee against the decision of the International Paralympic Committee to exclude the Russian team from the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The decision to suspend the Russian team was announced in mid-August by the head of the IPC, Sir Philip Craven. “Complete corruption of the anti-doping...

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