Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Africa - Voice of America: South Sudan Wheelchair Basketball Team Hopes for Paralympics Berth

Africa - Voice of America
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South Sudan Wheelchair Basketball Team Hopes for Paralympics Berth
Jul 25th 2012, 15:56

JUBA, South Sudan — At a basketball court in South Sudan's capital Juba, the national wheelchair team is still practicing hard - despite only a glimmer of hope that a select few will get a last-minute chance to compete in London's upcoming Paralympic Games. Wheelchair-bound basketball players race around a court in the sweltering evening heat. The players bear the scars of the ravages of war and poverty: limbs lost to land mines and bomb shrapnel, or twisted by polio. The decades-long ...

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