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Paralympic Champion Tatyana McFadden gives back to her sport
USA Today Two days after winning her sixth and final medal of the Rio Paralympics, Tatyana McFadden was teaching kids at a wheelchair racing clinic, hoping to inspire a new generation of champions. McFadden, 27, who trains in Champaign, Ill., returned to the United States after capping her Paralympic Games with a silver medal in…
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Tatyana McFadden awarded Whang Youn Dai Award
Ibrahim Al Hussein and Tatyana McFadden have been revealed as the recipients of the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The pair were selected as the athletes who best exemplify the spirit of the Paralympic Games and the Paralympic values. The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award started in 1988 Seoul…
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USA Luge Star, Erin Hamlin, Helps With Hometown Slider Search
The Republic USA Luge is on its annual search for new sliders, and after stops in New York City, Maryland, Illinois and California the team is making a visit to upstate New York. The national organization is holding recruitment clinics this weekend in Utica. The Slider Search tour uses sleds on wheels and discovered Erin…
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Phinney finds new maturity with Dubai Tour victory
Cycling News American looks ahead to the Classics and the Tour de France Taylor Phinney boyishly suggested he may play hula hoop with his Dubai Tour winner’s trophy but a dominant overall victory in the first edition of the race confirmed the 23-year-old American has improved and matured as he begins his fourth season with BMC. A…
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