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The ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, is hoping to take part in the Paralympics in Sochi in 2014 and is now training in Austria. She has been out on the Mölltaler glacier.
The news is reported in the Austrian press.
She is apparently training with her coach, according to a report in the Kleine Zeitug newspaper.
We have already reported on PlanetSKI how the 42-year old wants to represent her country at the Winter Paralympic Games.
Before she lost her leg in a road accident she was a keen skier and has since taken part in charity events in the UK as we have also reported on PlanetSKI.
"I'm training on the Mölltaler Glacier," she has said from Austria. "I came here to go skiing many years ago, before I was wearing a prosthesis. When I felt like skiing recently, Carinthia came into my mind immediately."
"I've been skiing for many years and I'm much better at that than ice skating, so I'm training hard to try to get on the British Paralympic downhill team," she said earier this year.
"Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true."
"She's incredibly ambitious. It's outstanding what she achieves wearing a prosthesis," her coach, Alexander Koll is reported as saying.
While in Austria she has also reportedly won an army shooting contest, according to a report in the Austrian Times.
Apparently locals have named her "Hedwig" because they find it difficult to pronounce "Heather".
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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