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Around 800 athletes from 43 countries have arrived in Bangalore for the IWAS (International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports federation) Games that were inaugurated on Nov. 24. The Games opened Nov. 24 (pictured) by Karnataka chief minister BS Yeddyurappa, while former prime minister HD Deve Gowda will preside over the function.
Among the assembled athletes are world record holders and world champions, each of them a testimony to superhuman courage and self-belief. Never before has the city seen anything remotely like it; and not in a long time will it see its like again.
Several cabinet ministers will attend the ceremony at the Sree Kanteerava stadium. The opening ceremony will consist of marching bands from a school, NCC cadets, and squads from MEG and Karnataka State Police. Meanwhile, the Iran team pulled out of the event citing the swine flu threat, and instead sent a team of officials.
Eleven events will be held from Nov 25 to Dec 1. These include: athletics, archery, sitting volleyball, table tennis, wheelchair rugby, badminton, golf, powerlifting, wheelchair fencing, shooting and swimming. Sitting volleyball and rugby will be demonstration sports.
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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