Adventure and Sports

McKeever wins IPC World Cup gold

Brian McKeever won his second gold medal at an IPC World Cup cross-country ski stop in Vuokatti, Finland on Tuesday.

McKeever, of Canmore, Alta., clocked 26 minutes 59.8 seconds to win the 10-kilometre race for the visually impaired with his brother Robin guiding the way to the golden spot on the podium. The pair also teamed up to win a 20-km race Sunday.

Russian skier Nikolay Polukhin was second and Frank Hoefle of Germany was third Tuesday. McKeever beat both men by more than three minutes.

Lahore triumphed over Nepal by 6 wickets

The centuries of Muhammad Akram and Shariq Yaseen helped Lahore to win the final One-day match by 6 wickets.

In the morning at LCCA Cricket Ground, in the last one-day cricket match,
Nepal won the toss against Lahore Cricket Association of the Blind and
elected to bat first.

Disability cricket given timely boost

A special dinner held to celebrate the life and achievements of England and Yorkshire cricketer Fred Trueman has raised £3,000 for disabled cricket to help fund the England Blind team's bid to win the upcoming Ashes series for cricketers with visual impairment.

ECB National Disability Cricket Manager Ian Martin received the £3,000 cheque from Geoff Hastings, chief organiser of the dinner held in the Nursery Pavilion at Lord's in November where raffle prizes included a round of golf with Sir Richard Hadlee.

Trinidad to host cricket tournament for visually impaired

Visually impaired cricketers from the six Caribbean countries will get a chance to display their skills at a tournament organised exclusively for them and the best among them will find a place in a West Indies team.

Volleyball goes the braille way in Chennai

It's an annual event the visually challenged look forward to in Chennai - a volleyball tournament exclusively for them. This year, it was a fight between fifteen teams from all over south India.

In this form of the game, the ball is thrown under the net and the players 'hear' the ball advancing towards them. The rules are strict. Those with partial vision are blind folded.

''It's a team effort. Since we are all in the same school we used to practice for a week and we get good understanding,'' says one of the participant girls.

Punekar brings carrom to the blind

A Puneite has developed what is probably the world's first carrom board for the visually challenged. Madan Purandare, who tweaked a normal carrom board to create this special one, claims this is the first of its kind.

Purandare, who heads Advait Parivar an NGO that works to help people with physical disabilities, told MiD DAY, "I have verified it through various search engines on the Internet. If anybody has done it in the past, I am ready to take back my claim."

Training started

Cricket With 20/20 Vision

The evolution of the glorious game of cricket has seen new entrant T20 add another dimension to the sport galvanising its popularity with the mainstream masses.

Cricket in India is undeniably a religion and the country has enthusiastically embraced the Indian Premier League and all its trimmings. In keeping with the development of the game, the Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI ) is organising the inaugural Indian Blind Cricket League (IBCL) in February 2010 in the country’s capital New Delhi.

Indian blind athletes bag nine gold medals at world youth championships in USA

A team of 8 young blind athletes from India took part in the “2009 IBSA World Youth and Student Championships” held on 17-18 July at Colorado Springs, USA and bagged 9 Gold, 1 Silver and 7 Bronze medals in different track and field events.

Organised by the United States Association of Blind Athletes, the Championship is the largest blind sports event for under-nineteen blind and visually impaired athletes in the world. This sports event is a sanctioned event of the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) and recognised by the International Paralympic Committee.

This visually impaired is adept at manouvering gatka

Once believed to be a male bastion, Gatka— a traditional form of Sikh martial art is also being practiced by the fairer sex now. Determined to learn this form of self-defence, many Punjabi girls are also picking up the art.

On Guru Gobind Singh's birthday, the residents of City Beautiful were enthralled with breath-taking performances on Nagar Kirtan on Tuesday.

Visually impaired boy steals show

King c3,DK Chopra muttered as the five hour long contest entered the endgame. It may have seemed unusual to onlookers for the player to call out his move, but then his opponent was a visually impaired boy who went on to beat Chopra in the final round of the Chennai Open chess tournament here on Wednesday.

The lanky, 16-year-old Darpan Inani,wearing blue glasses, rose to his feet and felt the chessboard to close out the game, and his mother, sitting beside to help him make the moves, could barely conceal her delight.