I’m trying to find copies of the results books for Beijing 2008, Torino 2006, and Athens 2004. I’ve checked the Olympic Library and looked around the archived official websites on Wayback Machine. I’ve found a few results books on IF websites, but quite a few still missing from my collection. Any tips on where those may be available?
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About the relays in cross-country: does anyone know the difference between the mixed relay and the open relay? Both start lists are a total mess, with teams in every random combination one can imagine, from only sit skiers, to three men + one woman, to four male sit skiers, to Canada which starts with one visually impaired man and one standing woman who both ski twice.
Both are mixed in terms of impairments and in terms of male/female, and so both seem open as well. What's up with this?
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324.1.1 At PWG and WCH, each nation can enter 1 team per relay competition. Any athlete can only participate in one relay competition. In other events the jury may decide to allow more than one team per nation, mixed nation teams, and athlete participation in more than one relay competition. An athlete may not compete for more than one team per competition.
Distance: Mixed relay and Open relay - 4x2.5 km (sit ski course/standing course/sit ski course/standing course)
1st leg: 2.5 km classical
2nd leg: 2.5 km free
3rd leg: 2.5 km classical
4th leg: 2.5 km free
324.1.2 Mixed Relay: the combined percentage of each team must be 335% or less, calculated by summing the individual percentages of the athlete in each leg with reductions of 15% per leg for female athletes and 12% per leg for sit ski athletes (female sit ski athlete: minus 27%). There must be at least one-woman taking part.
324.1.3 Open Relay: the combined percentage of each team must be 375% or less, calculated by summing the individual percentages of the athlete in each leg with reductions of 15% per leg for female athletes and 12% per leg for sit ski athletes (female sit ski athlete: minus 27%).
324.1.4 Each team may consist of 2, 3 or 4 athletes. For examples of possible team compositions see “Examples for composition of relay teams” published on the WPNS website in the rules section.
Masters after the finish (very audibly this time), “I want to race against honest people!”
She yelled, “fuck!” immediately after crossing the line and looking at the timing board. She went over to (I believe) Aaron Pike, who tired to calm her down/stop her from voicing her frustration, but she still shouted that comment right into the camera.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela
She had to go to court for the right to compete (as her classification was cut and IPC original ruled she couldn’t compete in SB-LL2 against less impaired athletes), but now Cecile Hernandez has a gold medal.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela
Happy to see the snowboard cross events finally contested in the heats format (was a time trial in 2014, and head-to-head in 2018). It will be interesting to compare the racing across the three editions.
A mix of rather uncompetitive opening heats and a couple of close finishes so far.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela
Not sure about that. They are other sporting bodies not based in Switzerland who CAS have dealt with. Also CAS heard Russia’s appeal in 2016 when they were banned.
I did see they said they’ll challenge in CAS. It’s strange because Huckaby and Fernandez had to challenge for their right to enter snowboarding competitions in German courts.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela
after the finish (very audibly this time), “I want to race against honest people!”
advanced to the ice sledge hockey final after a 11-0 beat down of 
just won Finland’s first gold medal in alpine skiing at the Winter Paralympics as well. 
has a gold medal.
straddles a gate in the canyon section while he’s over a second up on the clock.
win their first gold medals in alpine skiing and cross country skiing a few minutes apart.
also delivers Greece’s best result at the Winter Paralympics (6th) 
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Yeah, that’s the IPC database. It has the all the official results, but not in the original PDF format. It’s a great statistical resource though.
“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela
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