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		<title>10,000 hours to a new beginning</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/04/13/10000-hours-to-a-new-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 07:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kevin Priebe At a get together a few weeks ago, the family suddenly mobbed me wanting to know what I’ve been up to. ‘Aren’t you to old to be a Para athlete?’ ‘Well,’ I told them, ‘most of my &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/04/13/10000-hours-to-a-new-beginning/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Honey or vinegar: Advocating for para-sport</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/02/15/honey-or-vinegar-advocating-for-para-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Andrea (with contributions from Courtney) I’m writing this post because I have a serious question that I’m hoping you can help me with. When it comes to promoting para-sport, do you catch more flies with honey or with vinegar? &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/02/15/honey-or-vinegar-advocating-for-para-sport/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>(Dis)abling Discourses: The “Supercrip” in Advertising</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/01/22/disabling-discourses-the-supercrip-in-advertising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stacey Leavitt Stacey recently completed her Master&#8217;s in the field of sport sociology at the University of Lethbridge. A former CIS hockey player, Stacey&#8217;s interest in disability sport stems from her involvement in planning recreational programming for children and &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/01/22/disabling-discourses-the-supercrip-in-advertising/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Too Blind to Be Sighted/Too Sighted to be Blind</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/01/03/too-blind-to-be-sightedtoo-sighted-to-be-blind/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/01/03/too-blind-to-be-sightedtoo-sighted-to-be-blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing Integrated Sport from a New Perspective By Courtney I made my first national team as a visually impaired athlete when I was sixteen and competed internationally for the next eighteen years in athletics and cross country skiing. For much &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2013/01/03/too-blind-to-be-sightedtoo-sighted-to-be-blind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Para-athletes excluded from local races&#8230; again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/11/26/para-athletes-excluded-from-local-races-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joan Reid Will things ever be fair and equal in adaptive sport? I have just been the victim of another situation where adaptive athletes are being excluded from events. I attempted to register for a cross country ski race &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/11/26/para-athletes-excluded-from-local-races-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Canada! Part 2: Inefficiencies in the Sport System</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/28/wake-up-canada-part-2-inefficiencies-in-the-sport-system/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/28/wake-up-canada-part-2-inefficiencies-in-the-sport-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By An Athlete In which &#8216;An Athlete&#8217; furthers expands on last week&#8217;s post and explains what changes he/she would like to see to the Canadian sport system&#8230; preferably before the next Olympics&#8230; Sport Canada National Carding You probably think I &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/28/wake-up-canada-part-2-inefficiencies-in-the-sport-system/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wake Up Canada! Or risk Rio being a repeat</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/18/wake-up-canada-or-risk-rio-being-a-repeat/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/18/wake-up-canada-or-risk-rio-being-a-repeat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By An Athlete  The 2012 London Games are over and now begins the next quadrennial of sport programming for national sport organizations and athletes. It’s during this post-Olympic/Paralympic honeymoon that a lot of soul-searching and analyzing takes place. Athletes will &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/18/wake-up-canada-or-risk-rio-being-a-repeat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are we preaching to the choir? Social media and the Paralympic Games</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/01/are-we-preaching-to-the-choir-social-media-and-the-paralympic-games/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/01/are-we-preaching-to-the-choir-social-media-and-the-paralympic-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Paralympics have come and gone. The athletes have returned home. The venues are packed up. It’s business as usual in the streets of London. But the games will endure in the public’s memory as “the greatest Paralympic Games ever.” &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/10/01/are-we-preaching-to-the-choir-social-media-and-the-paralympic-games/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spasticus Autisticus at the Paralympics opening ceremony</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/09/12/spasticus-autisticus-at-the-paralympics-opening-ceremony/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/09/12/spasticus-autisticus-at-the-paralympics-opening-ceremony/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George McKay is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Communication, Cultural &#38; Media (CCM) Research Centre at the University of Salford, UK. He originally wrote this post for his own blog and has graciously given permission for it to &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/09/12/spasticus-autisticus-at-the-paralympics-opening-ceremony/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Us&#8221; and &#8220;Them&#8221;: The media treat Paralympians differently depending on where they are from</title>
		<link>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/08/22/us-and-them-the-media-treat-paralympians-differently-depending-on-where-they-are-from/</link>
		<comments>http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/08/22/us-and-them-the-media-treat-paralympians-differently-depending-on-where-they-are-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Toni Bruce Are you planning to read about or watch the 2012 Paralympics?  Do you care about media coverage?  If so, read on. My sample was all 39 Paralympics photos published in three New Zealand newspapers. And yes I &#8230; <a href="http://athletesfirst.ca/2012/08/22/us-and-them-the-media-treat-paralympians-differently-depending-on-where-they-are-from/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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