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Britain's Paralympians have met the Queen on Feb. 25 at a reception in their honour at Buckingham Palace.
The team, who won 42 gold medals in Beijing last year, paraded in London with the Olympic team in October but were assigned their own royal meeting.
Britain's 213-strong squad finished second in the medal table, with 102 medals in all, behind hosts China.
Swimmer Ellie Simmonds (far left in picture) made her second trip to the palace in a week after receiving an MBE on 18 February.
Eighty athletes returned home as Paralympic medallists, 30 with at least one gold to their name, 26 with silver and 39 bronze.
Among the party on Wednesday was swimmer David Roberts, now an 11-time Paralympic champion after his successes in Beijing.
Dressage competitor Lee Pearson, 35, (center in picture) boasts an unbeaten record across three Games, with his three gold medals in Beijing taking the total to nine.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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