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A 35-Year-Old Paraplegic Athlete Became The First Person To Use A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton To Walk In The Torch Relay Before The Olympics
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, a 35-year-old paraplegic athlete named Kevin Piette carried the Olympic torch while wearing an exoskeleton developed by the French engineering company Wandercraft.
Has anyone ever competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics?
Neroli Fairhall MBE hailed from New Zealand and was the first paraplegic and disabled competitor in the Olympics. She won one ...
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Paraplegic woman’s West Auckland home gutted by fire, father jumped for his life with pet through window
Video / NZ Herald Fire has gutted the West Auckland home of a woman who is a paraplegic - leaving her and her father with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Chloe Wigg, 33, said her dad ...
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Columbine High School shooting death toll climbs nearly 26 years later as survivor’s death ruled homicide
According to our Denver news partners, the report states that Hochhalter died of sepsis, with complications from paraplegia due to the two gunshot wounds she survived serving as a “significant ...
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Suspect arrested in 2008 killing of paraplegic man in Oceanside
Zachary Jr. was a 51-year-old paraplegic who lost his mobility in a car crash. He was found dead in his living room bed in Oceanside with a towel over his face, the report said. The San Diego ...
Canadian athletes embracing Paralympic momentum with Milan-Cortina Winter Games in sight
For Canadian athletes, Italy is a chance to once again celebrate the Paralympics and re-ignite the world's awareness around Para sport when the Games begin in Milan Cortina in 2026.