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Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games
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Pyeongchang
Opening ceremony
9 March 2018
Closing ceremony
18 March 2018
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Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 2 team. He is recognised as an American by the International Olympic Committee although he was a German national at the time of the Games.
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Pyeongchang 2018
IPC meet with Pyeongchang 2018 for first Project Review
By James Crook
March 2 - A team from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have met with Pyeongchang 2018 to conduct the first Project Review for the Winter Games.
March 2 - A team from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have met with Pyeongchang 2018 to conduct the first Project Review for the Winter Games.British company to design first generation of Paralympic skeleton sleds
By Tom Degun in Sochi
October 31 - Yorkshire-based company Bromley Technologies Ltd has won a contract with the International Skeleton and Bobsleigh Federation (ISBF) to design and manufacture the sport's first generation of elite Paralympic skeleton sleds that could make their debut at Pyeongchang 2018.
October 31 - Yorkshire-based company Bromley Technologies Ltd has won a contract with the International Skeleton and Bobsleigh Federation (ISBF) to design and manufacture the sport's first generation of elite Paralympic skeleton sleds that could make their debut at Pyeongchang 2018.Planning begins for Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games
By Tom Degun
July 3 - Plans for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games got underway this week after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) delivered a special orientation seminar in the Korean city to around high profile 70 delegates.
July 3 - Plans for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games got underway this week after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) delivered a special orientation seminar in the Korean city to around high profile 70 delegates.Korean Paralympic Committee appoints new general secretary
By Duncan Mackay
January 13 - The Korean Paralympic Committee has appointed Jin-Ho Son as its new general secretary as the country begins to prepare for Pyeongchang 2018.
January 13 - The Korean Paralympic Committee has appointed Jin-Ho Son as its new general secretary as the country begins to prepare for Pyeongchang 2018.Campaign launched to get sliding sports into Paralympics for Pyeongchang 2018
By Tom Degun
January 3 – Sliding sports could added to the Paralympic sport programme by the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, if a proposal by Bob Balk, the chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council, is accepted.
January 3 – Sliding sports could added to the Paralympic sport programme by the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, if a proposal by Bob Balk, the chairman of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council, is accepted.IPC President sends congratulations to Pyeongchang
By Emily Goddard
July 6 - International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven has paid tribute to Pyeongchang after they were awarded the right to stage the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in a landslide win today.
July 6 - International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven has paid tribute to Pyeongchang after they were awarded the right to stage the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in a landslide win today.
BPA performance director Penny Briscoe will be ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission for Sochi 2014 in what will be her sixth Paralympic Games and she will be aiming to ensure that the team win a medal, as Tom Degun reports Read moreBig Read ArchivePoll
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