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Unmanned hot-air balloon hits Olympic arena; minor damage

The Associated Press
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A small, unmanned hot-air balloon crashed into the roof of one of the arenas in Rio's Olympic Park on Monday, causing minor fire and water damage b...
Table tennis gave a once-homeless teen a path to Paralympics

By EMILY GIAMBALVO
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A few months before U.S. table tennis player Tahl Leibovitz left his home in Queens, N.Y., for the Rio Paralympic Games, his wife, Dawn, heard a ba...
American women sweep in triathlon's Paralympic debut

By EMILY GREENWOOD
Sep 12, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Before racing in the women's Paralympic triathlon Sunday, U.S. athletes Allysa Seely, Hailey Danisewicz and Melissa Stockwell talked about it being...
Minnesota hometown celebrates Olympic silver medalist Post

The Associated Press
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) - Olympic silver medalist Alise Post has been honored with a homecoming parade in Minnesota. Post won the silver medal in women's BMX cycling at th...
Paralympian Vervoort prepared to take own life _ but not yet

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Marieke Vervoort lives with nearly unbroken pain. The Belgian has an incurable, degenerative spinal disease, sleeps only 10 minutes some nights, an...
Bach defends decision to miss Paralympics opening

The Associated Press
Sep 11, 2016 7:00 am - ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach is quoted as saying his absence from the opening of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro h...
Brazil judge sets conditions for 8 in ticket scalping scheme

The Associated Press
Sep 10, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A judge in Brazil has set the house arrest conditions for eight of the 10 people charged with ticket scalping, conspiracy, and ambush marketing dur...
Wounded US veteran to compete in paratriathlon on 9/11

By KENDRA HANSEY
Sep 10, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Fifteen years ago, Melissa Stockwell was a senior at Colorado, wearing her ROTC uniform as she watched the Sept. 11 attacks unfold on television. O...
Guides for blind athletes share the struggle

By KENNINGTON LLOYD SMITH III
Sep 10, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - After Jerome Avery failed to make the U.S. Olympic team in the 100 meters in both 2000 and 2004, it seemed like his dream of international sports g...
Algerian team faces possible expulsion from Paralympics

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 10, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - An Algerian women's goalball team could be expelled from the Paralympics for failing to show up for two matches. IPC officials said the absence cou...

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