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The Korean national ice sledge hockey team secured a final berth in the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics by winning a qualification tournament held in Sweden last week.
On the final day of the competition, Korea beat Germany 4-1, securing a berth in the 2010 Paralympics. The national team also beat Sweden and Estonia throughout the three-day competition.
The IPC ice sledge hockey qualification tournament included four teams. First place Korea and the second place Sweden took the last two tickets for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.
"We are just so overjoyed right now. We'll keep pushing ourselves forward to get a good result in Vancouver next year," said Korean manger Lee Yeong-guk.
Since the Seoul 1998 Olympics, the Paralympic Games have always been held in the same year as the Olympic Games. The Canadian city of Vancouver will host the 2010 Winter Paralympics in February.
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.
From The Korea Herald:
