PRECEDENT FOR OTHERS. A CONTAGIOUS LAUGH COMING FROM FOUR YEAR OLD JOHNNY BLACKWELL. TAKEAWAY, TAKEAWAY. HOT DOG. ABSOLUTELY. WE COULD BE SOMEWHERE. AND HE JUST LAUGHING, SURROUNDED BY HIS FAVORITE ...

A Paralympic gold medallist became the first blind woman to swim across the English Channel – and says that “nothing is impossible.” Melanie Barratt, 49, took on the challenge after falling in love ...

Swimming Without the Black Line: How Blind Athletes Adapt By McClain Hermes, Swimming World Intern When I began swimming at the age of four, I told my parents that I wanted to go to the Olympics. As I ...

PHOENIX — You’ve heard of jail breaks. Now, a group of blind Valley swimmers are headed to California to do a “Braille Break from Alcatraz.” The group is planning to swim from Alcatraz Island to the ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A young Pasco County girl who is completely blind needed help adapting to the world around her, but she also has motivated others to adapt to her. Ayva Lynn Finch is 5 years ...

Lucas Lopez takes a couple of confident steps into the indoor pool at Echo Hollow in Eugene. Wearing goggle, Lopez gets right to work, swimming with a kickboard back and forth on the outermost lane ...

BROCKPORT, New York (Reuters) - On her first attempt ever at the long jump, the applause came before 16-year-old Dah Ku even broke a stride. "Follow the clapping sounds, Dah Ku," cried Marielhi Rosado ...

Melanie Barratt is a multi-medal winning Paralympic swimmer who won two golds, two silvers and a bronze medal at the Paralympic games in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. She has also won numerous golds ...