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Guardian, 19 Sept 2010.

Philippe Croizon set off from Folkestone, in Kent, at around 6am yesterday, expecting to reach France within 24 hours, but managed to complete the feat in only 13 and a half.

The 42-year-old's arms and legs had to be amputated after he suffered an electric shock while removing a television aerial from a roof 16 years ago.

He taught himself to swim in the last two years, and does so using prosthetic legs and a snorkel and mask.

Earlier, Croizon's spokeswoman said he was swimming faster than expected after completing his first 12 miles in just eight hours.

After completing the 21-mile challenge last night, Croizon told the BBC he had never felt that he was not going to make it, despite aches and pains all over his body.

Croizon's father said his son had been helped by favourable wind conditions and had even had three dolphins swimming alongside at one point, which he said was a "sign of good luck".

One of our experts, Yohann Taberlé, specialist of achievements on snow, has been qualified for the winter paralympic games in Vancouver.
Jean Yves Le Meurs, whom we mentioned in our challenge section when he climbed the Mont Blanc, will also be part of the journey to represent France at these winter games.

e-Handicap-World-Records wishes all athletes great winter games

All members of the Ehandicap World Records team wish you a very happy new year – full of challenges and records.
Have a pleasant visit of our Web Site.
“Sportingly yours!”

Delphine Le Sausse, sports expert for our website, has returned from the World Disabled Water Ski Championships which took place in Vichy, France. She comes back holding new titles after an already successful time in Australia in 2007.

In 2009, she became:

- Slalom and combined World Champion
- Runner-up in the tricks, jump and super combined World Championships
- Bronze medal per team

And recently on 11 November 2009 she was named World Disabled female Skier of the year.

We wish her luck for the European Championships in 2010.

The ehandicapworldrecords.org team

All members of the Ehandicap World Records team wish you a very happy new year – full of challenges and records.
Have a pleasant visit of our Web Site.
“Sportingly yours!”

ISTRES, France (AFP) - Blind Belgian daredevil Luc Costermans won a world record Saturday when he hit 308.78 kilometres (192 miles) per hour driving a Lamborghini Gallardo supercar on a French airstrip.
The 43-year-old, who was blinded in an accident four years ago, hit the top speed twice in the borrowed car at the Istres airbase in southern France.
Costermans thanked his co-pilot Guillaume Roman, the air force and his sponsors, and dedicated his record to the Formula 1 driver Philippe Streiff, who has been a tetraplegic since an accident in the 1989 Brasil Grand Prix.
The blind road speed record was previously held by Britain's Mike Newman, who hit 268 kilometres per hour in October 2005 in a modified BMW M5.

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19 September 2008
After 12 days of competition, the Closing Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on 17 September 2008 officially ended a period of record-breaking competition and events.

279 world records
Almost 4,000 athletes from a total of 147 different countries around the world came to Beijing to compete in their respective sports. Some athletes competed in more than one event, but they all participated at an elite level. Of these 147 countries, five competed in the Paralympic Games for the first time, including Burundi, Gabon, Georgia, Haiti and Montenegro. The Games saw a total of 279 new world records set and a total of 339 new Paralympic records broken.

1.9 million tickets sold
A record number of 1.9 million tickets were sold, with an additional 600,000 tickets provided to children, educational institutes and community groups. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies were sold out, as were all the swimming events and most of the athletics events.

One thousand doping tests conducted
Out of more than 1,000 doping tests conducted, there were three anti-doping rule violations. The doping tests performed included urine (Erythropoietin, EPO) and blood tests (Human Growth Hormone (hGH), synthetic haemoglobin (HBOC), blood transfusions (BT) and other substances.

The rights of disabled people is an issue which has been at the heart of many meetings held by the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights which I have the honour to preside. In accordance with the importance we attach to the subject, we have published our annual report on the protection of human rights in Egypt in Braille, and we are planning to hold a meeting with non-sighted people in the next few months, in order to listen to their feedback on this document. Your plan to launch an Internet site, (www.ehandicapworldrecords.org) dedicated to the achievements of disabled people throughout the world, is therefore of the utmost interest to us in our efforts to help the disabled. In the name of the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights, and on my own behalf, I would like to congratulate you and to thank you for this magnificent initiative.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former Secretary General of the United Nations
President of the Egyptian National Commission on Human Rights

A faux-pas cost him his legs, but his passion for life and his love of the mountains pushed him to the summit of Mont Blanc, standing on an artificial foot and supported by crutches.

A well-known engineer and accomplished sportsman, Jean-Yves Le Meur tells the story of his rebirth and his impossible climb with detachment, sensitivity, intelligence and humour. A far-reaching testimony to one’s ability to surpass and rebuild oneself. Deeply moving.

Barely escaping from a situation close to death, Jean-Yves Le Meur lost his right leg and his left foot in an awful, and stupid, train accident at the age of 19. His return to the world was physical and moral torture, but the young man had a horizon in view : the mountains which were sketched in the window-frame. For him, to “come back” meant nothing : his “life project” was to reach the summit of Mont Blanc standing upright. Crutches in hand, weightless on two artificial legs, he would manage this a few years later, explaining that this “first” was neither a challenge nor a battle, but the fulfilment of an irrepressible impulse based on a whim : it can’t be done ! The horizontal journey of a bedridden young man who confronted insane trials with skin-deep sensitivity, became the path of a man trained for the highest of mountains.

Throughout the encounters and portrayals, and in transcribing the most extreme of emotions, the story of this Faux Pas bears testimony to the keeping of a promise, with passion, the passion to live.

Sport and disability[fr][de]
Published: Friday 30 November 2007
In spite of efforts to promote equal opportunities in Europe, many children and adults with disabilities still do not exercise their full rights to perform sport and physical activities at their desired levels.

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