Production Credits
Executive Producer - Judith Vecchione
Senior Producer - David Peth
Web Designer - Cassandra Sell
Web Developers - Jonathan Ellenberger & Bob Donahue
Production Coordinator - Marisa Nopakun
Production Assistant - Mariana Mandelbaum
Production Interns - Alison Comras & Alex Fichera
Video Produced by Luminant Media
Executive Producer - Brian Knappenberger
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Marketing - Susan Chinson, Kerry Murphy & Michael Wood
Business Manager - Melissa Miller
Legal - Nike Okediji, Katrina Cicala
For WGBH Educational Foundation:
Vice President for Broadband and Interactive Media - Alexis Fife Rapo
Director of Digital Initiatives for National Productions - Meredith Nierman
Vice President for National Programming - Margaret Drain
Special Thanks
K&L Gates LLP
No Limits Media Inc.
Photo Credits
2012 Warrior Games
AFP/Getty Images
Alan Bouwkamp
Associated Press
Bob Daemmrich/Corbis
Christy Blew
CSPA/NewSport/Corbis
David Kadlubowski/DIT/Corbis
Dominique Mollard/AP/Corbis
Du Huaju/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Getty Images
Guo Dayue/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis
Invacare
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London 2012
Meredith Nierman/WGBH
Reuters/Corbis
Sol Neelman/Corbis
United States Olympic Committee
VisitBritain
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More on Browne v. Peacock - in Lyons this July, who will run the fastest 100m? The rivalry heats up! http://www.paralympic.org/news/browne-aims-knock-peacock-pedestal-lyon#
Browne aims to knock Peacock off pedestal in Lyon | IPC
“I’m not going to lie to you, I’m kind of tired of him winning and I’m tired of his mouth. I want to shut him up and knock him off when it counts, just like he said in his tweet.”
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Richard Browne, silver medalist in London, tied the world record in the men's 100m (T44) race at the Star Athletics Sprint this weekend. The results are considered "unofficial" because this event is not part of the IPC circuit -- but Brown clocked in at 10.85 seconds! http://www2.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics/Features/2013/June/08/Richard-Browne-ties-100m-world-record.aspx
Richard Browne ties 100m world record
Richard Browne unofficially ties world record held by London 2012 Paralympic Games gold medalist Jonnie Peacock in the men's 100-meter (T44)
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Congrats to MQ's Paul Schulte, selected to the 20-man roster for the 2013 wheelchair basketball national team. The final 12, selected by July 1, compete in Bogota at the World Qualifier in August. Go team!
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August 12-18 - IPC Swimming World Championships at Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal. 650 athletes from 60 countries - check it out! http://www.paralympic.org/news/75-days-go-montreal-2013-marked-new-video
75 days to go to Montreal 2013 marked with new video | IPC
Brazilian superstar and six-time Paralympic Champion Daniel Dias will also compete in Montreal and has already been in action this season, breaking a world record last week at the German Internationals in Berlin with a time of 1:17.70 as part of his preparations for Montreal.
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Here's what the gold, silver, and bronze medals will look like at the Sochi Paralympics - let's cheer for lots of them to come home to the US! http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/30/photo-gallery-sochi-2014-winter-olympics-and-paralympics-medals-unveiled/
Photo Gallery: Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics medals unveiled
The Sochi 2014 Olympics medals got their first public airing on Thursday with organisers unveiling the prizes for Russia’s first ever Winter Games and Paralympics. With eight months to go…
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17-year-old American swimmer Ian Silverman broke the world records in the men’s 800m and 1500m freestyle S10 events at the Can-Am competitions in April. Coming soon: the Swimming World Championships in August, where Silverman will compete against Benoit Huot, winner of 28 World Championship medals.http://www.paralympic.org/athlete-month/ian-silverman-athlete-month-april-2013
Ian Silverman - Athlete of the Month April 2013 | IPC
After qualifying for August’s International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada by breaking two world records, American swimmer Ian Silverman has been voted IPC Athlete of the Month for April.
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London 2012's Paralympic coverage on Channel 4 won a prestigious BAFTA award in sports - beating out the 2012 Olympic coverage on the BBC http://www.channel4.com/news/paralympics-channel-4-bafta-television-awards.
Channel 4's Paralympics team beats BBC to TV Bafta
An "amazing surprise" sees Channel 4's Paralympic coverage beat the BBC Olympics to the TV Bafta for best sport and live event.
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New Soccer 7-a-side tournament in Ireland this week - American team ranked #9. http://www.paralympic.org/news/four-football-7-side-teams-head-south-dublin
Four football 7-a-side teams head to South Dublin | IPC
Three of the world’s leading football 7-a-side teams will travel to South Dublin, Ireland this weekend for the inaugural Dublin Gathering tournament which begins on Monday (6 May).
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MEDAL QUEST will be honored later this month with a prestigious Christopher Spirit Award. Congratulations to all the athletes and production staff who made MQ such a great success! http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cbs-blue-bloods-and-pbs-online-project-medal-quest-american-athletes-and-the-paralympic-games-to-receive-special-christopher-awards-2013-05-01
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New York, NY, May 01, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- The Christophers will honor a television series and an online documentary with special Christopher Awards during their 64th annual ceremony on May 23rd. The CBS television series Blue Bloods will receive the 2013...
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Congratulations to Tatyana McFadden, who won the London Marathon just six days after winning Boston. McFadden had said she would compete with the victims of the Boston bombings "in her heart." She set a new course record with an unofficial time of 1hr 46mins 02secs. And Happy Birthday, too - today is Tatyana's 24th!
I'm racing for Boston: McFadden dedicates London bid to victims of bombing
Tatyana McFadden seems slightly shocked at the suggestion that she would ever have considered not travelling to compete — alongside 36,000 others — in the London Marathon.
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Horrible news at the Marathon: two explosions near the finish line at about 2:50pm. Our hearts are with the injured and families.
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Tatyana McFadden has just won the Boston Marathon! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/medal-quest/video/detail/mcfadden-v-mcfadden-100m/
Two Sisters, One Race | Paralympic Video | Medal Quest | PBS
For the first time, two sisters, Tatyana and Hannah McFadden, competed head-to-head in the women’s 100m wheelchair finals in London. Their mother tells MEDAL QUEST she's already won gold, having these two remarkable athletes as daughters.
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Anyone taking pix of the great wheelchair racers at the Boston Marathon this Monday, please upload here so we can see them, too!
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MEDAL QUEST sends a shout-out to the athletes participating in this week's Boston Marathon, including Tatyana McFadden. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/medal-quest/video/detail/mcfadden-v-mcfadden-100m/
Two Sisters, One Race | Paralympic Video | Medal Quest | PBS
For the first time, two sisters, Tatyana and Hannah McFadden, competed head-to-head in the women’s 100m wheelchair finals in London. Their mother tells MEDAL QUEST she's already won gold, having these two remarkable athletes as daughters.
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Live stream of Lowell U's panel on "Why does the Media ignore the Paralympics?" http://libweb.uml.edu/media/campusvoices/paralympics.html
Lowell University panel
Sponsored by Introduction to Politics & Sports, UML Interdisciplinary Minor in Disability Studies, UML Athletics & UML Student Disability Services.
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Paralympics and "Wounded Warrior" athletes, winning on the slopes and snow! http://www2.teamusa.org/US-Paralympics/Features/2013/March/18/Veterans-find-success-in-Nordic-skiing.aspx
Veterans find success in Nordic skiing
In June 2008, Omar Bermejo had recently returned from his fourth deployment to Iraq. The then 27 year-old Marine Corps sergeant was racing through life, searching for the familiar rush of fear and adrenaline that had been fueled by bullets and IEDs only months before. He bought a motorcycle with the...
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Paralympic winter sports classifications are as specific as the summer ones we profiled on PBS's MEDAL QUEST. Here's the listing for alpine ski classifications. http://www.paralympic.org/AlpineSkiing/RulesandRegulations/Classification
Alpine Skiing - Rules & Regulations - Classification | IPC
To ensure competition is fair and equal, all Paralympic sports have a system in place which ensures that winning is determined by skill, fitness, power, endurance, tactical ability and mental focus, the same factors that account for success in sport for able bodied athletes.
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