Wheelchair and pram access is practically nonexistent; they have to be carried up a flight of concrete steps.
Grady A. Dugas M.D. (October 24, 1923 – March 25, 2007) was a Louisiana physician who invented the "Safer Automatic Wheelchair Wheel Locks", a patented device designed for those who sometimes forget to lock their wheelchairs.
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The 1st Wheelchair Rugby World Championships (ISMWSF) were held in Nottwil, Switzerland.
Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball 2005–2006 season is the 2005–2006 basketball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray SK.
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Galatasaray SK Wheelchair Basketball 2010–2011 season is the 2010–2011 basketball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray SK.
Begg has been a wheelchair user since 1984 as she lives with the degenerative Gaucher's disease.
In 2003, aged 105, he was the only British veteran of the First World War to attend the Armistice Day Ceremony in Ypres, where he rose from his wheelchair and, in a clear and strong voice, recited Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen".
Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes).
He was briefly held at the embassy before he was drugged and taken in a wheelchair onto a Mongolian MIAT flight to Ulaanbaatar on 18 May.
The organization's most recent director of marketing and development, Stephanie Cadieux, was elected to the Legislative Assembly as a BC Liberal MLA in the 2009 provincial election, becoming the second wheelchair user ever elected to the legislature.
It was made to allow bicycles, pedestrians, and wheelchair users access to the Berkeley Marina, Eastshore State Park, and the city.
At the event, he played wheelchair basketball with then New South Wales Premiere Kristina Keneally.
Access to both platforms is by ramp, allowing easy access for passengers with wheelchairs or prams.
Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball Player Steve Serio graduated from Carle Place High School in 2005.
Artists include Chuck Close, Mary Verdi-Fletcher (the first professional wheelchair dancer in the United States), Mark Di Suvero, Jack Hofsiss, Tony Meléndez, Howie Seago and Randy Souders.
Celebrity athletes including Jean Driscoll, winner of the women's wheelchair division of the Boston Marathon, have supported this College Church fundraiser by participating.
He is best known for defeating defending champion Kevin Papworth in the 2001 London Marathon wheelchair race, a feat given that his wheelchair, which normally would take a year to break in, was only 5 weeks old.
Born in Picton she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Kayaking also shows benefits where participants will be able to enjoy nature out of the confines of their disability, whether it is a wheelchair, crutches or any other impairment.
Because of his tall and strong appearance, Hagney often played officers or henchmans, such as Mr. Potters wordless wheelchair pusher in It's a Wonderful Life.
As yet, there is no access, to the platform, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams, as access is by staircase only.
Wheelchair and pram access to the platforms is possible, via the access ramps.
He blended the word “hover” (based on the hovering look of the wheelchair),with the Beach Boys’ song “I Get Around.”
In this comedy and its following trilogy, Zhao Benshan had successfully convinced Fan Wei that he has a serious illness(actually he is totally healthy but a little stupid), and con him to buy underarm crutches(in 2001 CCTV New Year's Gala) and a wheelchair (in 2002 CCTV New Year's Gala) from Zhao Benshan.
The first official wheelchair basketball world championship for men under-23 was held in 1997 hosted by Toronto, Canada.
According to Showbox pro-fight preview for the fight against Mexican Michael Lozada, Teron grew up with his grandmother due to his mother is in a wheelchair.
He is best known for winning the 2000 London Marathon, having passed the expected winner, South African Ernst van Dyk, who is the current world record holder for the men's wheelchair marathon, in the final mile of the race.
On March 4, 2011, Dunlap was arrested and charged with reckless driving and disorderly conduct for driving his 2004 Cadillac Escalade onto the plaza outside Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, while trying to pick his father up, who was in a wheelchair.
Ladri di Carrozzelle ("Wheelchair Thieves" as the name is a play on the film Bicycle Thieves) is an Italian Pop rock group that formed due to a summer event in 1989 for the Union for the Fight Against Muscular Dystrophy.
The trail's compacted gravel surface between Lilydale and Millgrove is pram and wheelchair friendly and accommodates activities such as walking, cycling and horse riding.
Lt. Gruber once found a book under her pillow with the title Wheelchair Jujutsu which contained, among other things, 12 ways to disable a man with a crutch.
There is step-free access available only for the Liverpool-bound platform, for wheelchairs and prams.
She also had a leading role as wheelchair-using Cleo Bellows in the 2001 children's television series MythQuest opposite Christopher Jacot.
It also profiles successful wheelchair users, including John Hockenberry, Christopher Voelker, Brooke Ellison, Chantal Petitclerc and the late Christopher Reeve.
Along with his identical twin brother, Anthony, he was diagnosed with Spinal muscular atrophy at 18 months old and confined to a power wheelchair at the age of 6.
Reconfigured main-floor cross aisles, additional elevators and a new wheelchair seating section, greatly improve accessibility for patrons with disabilities and updates compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Rwanda has never won an Olympic medal, but Jean de Dieu Nkundabera won a Paralympic bronze medal for Rwanda in wheelchair racing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens.
Only days after the accident, while still in the hospital, he watched a wheelchair race on television where Sharon Hedrick broke the world record in the 800 meters.
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At the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, he placed sixth in the wheelchair racing event.
Steve Serio (born 1987), American wheelchair basketball player
In 1987, a series of specially made Canadian Muppet characters were introduced, including Basil the Bear (played by Bob Stutt), French-Canadian Louis the Otter, Dodi, a bush pilot, and Katie, a girl in a wheelchair.
A notable graduate from this school was Curt Brinkman, a world record setting paraplegic athlete who in 1980 became the first person to win the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair, and went on to win five gold medals in the Paralympic Games.
Though, there is no easy access, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams, to the platforms, as this is by staircase only.
Stephanie Wheeler (born in Norlina, North Carolina on January 16, 1981) is an American wheelchair basketball player who was on two gold-medal winning Paralympic teams.
Phineas, now bound to a wheelchair in Wolverine: Origins #12, has been contracted by the resurrected villain Silas "Cyber" Burr to subject his new body to the Adamantium-Epidermal Bonding Process.
Wheelchair and pram access to each of the two platforms is possible, and relatively easy, via the ramp-staircases.
The 4th World Wheelchair Rugby Championships were held in Christchurch, New Zealand from September 12–16, 2006.
Arcade game software and clinical data acquisition use were first introduced by the Veterans Administration's WAFT as a means of promoting stationary wheelchair propulsion as a beneficial aerobic exercise.
They first appeared on the Paralympic seen at the 1992 Summer Paralympics, despite women's wheelchair basketball being competed for at the Paralympics since 1968.