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Disabled people ‘must take the initiative’ over access to sport

11/12/2012 – 3:00 pm

Disabled people need to take the initiative and demand more accessible local sports facilities, a conference has heard.
Stewart Lucas, chief executive of Interactive, which works to increase the number of disabled people taking part in sport and physical activity in London, said that disabled people needed to decide for themselves that they wanted to become [...]

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London 2012: Only one in 50 opening ceremony volunteers was disabled

03/09/2012 – 9:00 am

London 2012 organisers have admitted that only one in 50 of the volunteers who took part in the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games was a disabled person.
The ceremony has been widely-praised, particularly for the performance of its 73 professional Deaf and disabled performers and the work of its two disabled co-directors, Jenny Sealey and [...]

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