Cross-country skiers know just how physically demanding that sport can, but try facing that challenge without use of your legs or the ability to see the trail ahead of you.
2012/02/03
A documentary on an inspiring bicycle trip around Taiwan by 10 visually impaired people will be released shortly after the Lunar New Year holiday.
2012/02/03
Germany’s visually impaired biathlete and cross-country skier Verena Bentele has been named the Best Female Athlete for the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Paralympic Sport Awards.
2011/12/13
Heinrich Wagner is a visually impaired man, one who has brazenly performed numerous feats that would reduce most 'normal' human beings to quivering, cowering messes.
2011/09/20
Prachurya Pradhan, a Class IX student, has become the first blind person in the state [Orissa] to secure a FIDE ( World Chess Federation) rating.
2011/07/07
India is set to host the inaugural blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup in December.
2011/05/16
Learning about how a sound ball works and the game of cricket be played with the specially designed ball, was a defining moment in the life of Vaishnav Mahender. Mahender, who suffers from irreversible vision impairment and 13 other visually impaired cricketers, recently represented India at the international level.
2011/04/01
Baroda-Based Darpan Inani Wins Chennai Open Chess Tournament
2011/01/27
For 31-year-old visually impaired Rashpal Kaur, maneuvering a Gatka is just like doing any other every day chore.
2011/01/13
Organised by the United States Association of Blind Athletes, the Championship is the largest blind sports event for under-nineteen blind and visually impaired athletes in the world.
2009/07/29
Association for Cricket for the Blind in India (ACBI ) is organising the inaugural Indian Blind Cricket League (IBCL) in February 2010 in the country’s capital New Delhi.
2009/07/27
Madan Purandare has developed a carrom board that can be used by the visually challenged.
2009/06/02
It's an annual event the visually challenged look forward to in Chennai - a volleyball tournament exclusively for them. This year, it was a fight between fifteen teams from all over south India.,
2008/07/22
Visually impaired cricketers from the six Caribbean countries will get a chance to display their skills at a tournament organised exclusively for them and the best among them will find a place in a West Indies team.
2008/04/03
A special dinner held to celebrate the life and achievements of England and Yorkshire cricketer Fred Trueman has raised £3,000 for disabled cricket to help fund the England Blind team's bid to win the upcoming Ashes series for cricketers with visual impairment.
2008/03/24
, The centuries of Muhammad Akram and Shariq Yaseen helped Lahore to win the final One-day match by 6 wickets.,
2008/03/18
Brian McKeever won his second gold medal at an IPC World Cup cross-country ski stop in Vuokatti, Finland.
2008/02/22
The Association for Cricket for the Blind in India will be hosting a two day<br />meeting of representatives from Asian countries on the 19th and 20th of<br />July, 2008 at Bangalore.
2008/01/29
A blind man is set to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven days.
2008/01/24
A daredevil woman who is gradually losing her sight is taking part in a charity skydive to raise money for the charity which gave her vital help when her life was turned upside down.
2008/01/23
England 's Graham Gooch and New Zealand 's Martin Crowe have taken on junior blind cricketers in a friendly game at Rushutters Bay , Sydney .
2008/01/23
, The Mumbai chapter of Round Table India (R.T.I.) organised the ‘Blind Man’s Car Rally’ to raise funds for its projects under the aegis of the national theme: Freedom Through Education.
2007/11/02
Soccer Sight, an initiative which brings quality commentary to blind and partially sighted supporters went live for Euro 2008 qualifier against Sweden.
2007/07/05
Miles Hilton-Barber is visually impaired. He's on a 13,000-mile journey in a microlight Hilton-Barber aims to raise £1 million to help restore blind people's sight in the developing world through the Standard Chartered Bank's Seeing Is Believing programme.
2007/07/05
Pawan Ghimire, the man crazy about making Nepali blind play in the Blind Cricket World Cup, spoke as one ambitious blind individual. And why not? After all, after losing his eyesight in a Maoist ambush four years ago, the Nepali Army (NA) captain has been able to put all that behind him and start life anew.
2007/04/04
, National Association for Blind team from Silvassa, won the ‘All-Gujarat Blind Peoples Cricket Tournament'.
2007/02/17
, A training programme in Karate has been envisaged to equip blind boys in self-defence.
2007/02/17
, A tandem bicycling event in the U.A.E with the aim to garner funds for research on eye diseases.
2007/02/16
, U.C.A.L. rally for blind people was held in Chennai, recently. The rally had a lot of newcomers this year.
2007/01/29
Kenya’s celebrated blind cyclist and mountain climber Douglas Sidialo is making history. He is part of the Tour d’ Afrique bicycle race.
2007/01/13
Defending champions Pakistan outplayed India by six wickets to retain the Cricket World Cup for the Blind in Islamabad.
2006/12/17
A blind Belgian man on Saturday claimed a place in the record books after completing a tour of France in a light airplane.
2006/12/06
, An active teenager and an ardent lover of sport, Jordan Mouton is now training to compete in the World Championship for Judo to be held in France, later this year.
2006/12/04
South African adventurer Hein Wagner, who last year broke the land speed car record for the blind, completed a long-distance cycle race, riding solo. He was the only blind competitor in the race.
2006/12/02
A Sussex sportsman is attempting to become a first blind diver to reach a depth of 100 meters-something very few sighted divers have achieved.
2006/12/02
, Argentina crowned I.B.S.A. Blind Futsal World Champions.
2006/11/29
, U.K.'s Kevin Alderton has set the world's first indoor blind skiing speed record.
2006/11/16
, Being blind did not discourage Sharon Grennan, from Worsley in Manchester to participate in the London Marathon. A book lover by nature, she decided to take on this gruelling race, to raise 10,000 Pounds for the National Library for the Blind (N.L.B.).
2006/11/04
He came, he saw, he was conquered. Blind students surprised world junior rapid chess champion, Pendyala Harikrishna with their skills and aptitude for the game.
2006/10/29
Forty visually impaired mountaineers will climb Mt. Yushan (Taiwan). Their spirit is as high as the mountain itself.
2006/10/19
West Indies’ Regional Blind Cricket tournament was held to promote blind cricket in the Caribbean Island and to select the winning team for the Blind Cricket World Cup, 2006.
2006/10/07
, The 2006 Homerus International Autonomous Blind Match Racing championship will take place in Imperia, Italy in May.
2006/10/02
, U.K.-based British Blind Sports, joined hands with the local charity, the Cambridgeshire Society and organised ten-pin bowling sessions for visually impaired people in Cambridge in January.
2006/10/02
A group of blind people in U.A.E. will learn to navigate the sea on a yacht.
2006/09/15
, A visually impaired woman in U.K. pulled off a near impossible feat. She drove a sighted person and her navigator to the said destination.
2006/08/23
, Glacier National Park is a land of high-mountain adventure, a land that sets the senses and spirit soaring. Visually impaired Tom Gryder walked through these glacial heights.
2006/08/16
Blind football gets financial support from the Union of European Football Association. This move would promote and develop blind football across the world.
2006/07/14
An inspiring story of a blind man’s amazing underwater feat and the organisation which enabled him to make history. Read about Dan Barrett and DiveHeart Foundation.
2006/06/22
Visually impaired Mark Threadgold set a new record in deep-sea dive after reaching 103 metres deep in Egyptian Red Sea.
2006/06/20
A cricket club in U.K. is leading the drive to set up a league for blind and visually impaired cricketers.
2006/06/18
, A blind, wheelchair-bound Japanese woman finishes the New York Marathon.
2006/06/11
, Blind golfers across the world meet at Edinburgh to defend title, win games and most of all, for the sheer love of the game.
2006/06/09
, The third Blind Cricket World Cup will take place in Islamabad, Pakistan. New entrant, West Indies is in the process of selecting its world cup team through a series of matches.
2006/05/30
, Goa will host the 11th ‘World Chess Championship for the Blind’, this year. Many Grand Masters and champions are expected to take part in the event.
2006/05/24
Sky is the limit for him. Quite literally. He scaled the Machu Picchu mountain (Peru) recently. Terry Garret is raring to go further.
2006/05/07
, Meet Aex Loch. An 18 year old, who despite his visual impairment has competed as a ‘level 10’ gymnast at the recent Junior Olympic National Championships in Battle Creek.
2006/05/06
, Students of the Ramkrishna Mission Blind Boy’s Academy ready to climb the highest peak in Darjeeling, West Bengal.,
2006/05/01
Punjab (India) is two down against Pakistan (Punjab province) in the ongoing blind cricket match series in Pakistan.
2006/04/24
, Visually impaired Kevin Alderton has set a new downhill speed skiing. He aims to inspire others through his adventurous acts.
2006/04/18
, Punjab’s blind cricket team is all set to take on its counterparts in Pakistan. The five-match one-day series beginning April 19, 2006, promises to be an exciting event.
2006/04/18
, Visually impaired Alison Gunn sailed through the Isle of Wight (U.K.). Her dare devil adventure was also meant to raise funds for a charity organisation that encourages sailing among disabled people.
2006/04/09
Top FIDE players competed to seek place in the Indian team for the upcoming World Chess Championship for the Blind.
2006/03/15
, Teams from all over the world are getting ready to participate in the Sixth International Regatta for blind sailors to be held at Newport. This competition is hosted by the New York Yacht Club with the assistance of Sail Newport.
2006/03/04
Students of the ‘Happy Home and School for the Blind’, Mumbai discover their strength and much more through judo.
2006/03/04
Gujarat defeated Haryana in the finals to claim the trophy of 13th National Cricket Tournament for the Blind held in Bangalore.
2006/03/04
The National Cricket tournament for the blind will be played in Bangalore from March 1 to 5, 2006. The finals will be played at the Karnataka State Cricket Association grounds on March 5, 2006.
2006/02/27
The Blind People Association, organised the ninth Round Table Blind People Car Rally, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, where visually impaired navigators guided sighted drivers to their destinations.
2006/02/02
Visually impaired barrel racer, Brittney Holland uses a hands free cell phone to help her compete in the game.
2006/01/30
, She is 94 and blind. But that’s not stopping her from bringing glory to the game of beep baseball.
2006/01/12
, Pakistan won two matches in a row to clench the Rashid Memorial Trophy in England .
2006/01/06
Kobayashi’s diminishing vision did not stop him from continuing with adventure sport like rock climbing. In fact, he has gone on to encourage people with disabilities to dabble in sports through his organisation.,
2005/12/12
The V.I.P. (Visually Impaired People) Fishing Tournament is an annual event for the visually impaired persons, held at North Carolina, U.S.A.
2005/12/12
24 visually impaired people of the Tallahassee Council of the Blind, took a 22-mile bicycle ride, with non-visually impaired people navigating them.
2005/12/12
, Blind chess player Chris Ross is all set to travel to Mumbai, India to compete for the title of World Chess Champion next year.
2005/10/09
Visually impaired Noralizulrainee is diligently preparing to take part in the first Brunei marathon to be held on December 11, 2005. His aim is to raise awareness and funds for the visually impaired. ,
2005/10/09
, Punjab Chief Minister has failed to provide the promised financial aid to visually impaired athletes. As a mark of protest, the athletes have said that they will return the medals they won for the country.,
2005/10/08
Enrique Oliu - referred to as "a walking baseball encyclopedia” started following the game via his small transistor as a child. Today, as a radio broadcaster, he is associated with the game further.,
2005/09/30
, Two visually impaired runners completed an incredible 32-mile challenge across 32 counties in Ireland, underscoring the spirit and abilities of people with disabilities.
2005/09/22
At 269 kilometres per hour (167miles per hour), 33-year-old South African Hein Wagner is the world's fastest blind car driver. He broke the previous record of 233 kilometres per hour (144 miles per hour).
2005/09/09
, Sam Atwood and Craig Kiser, both blind climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa at 19,340 feet. ,
2005/08/27
, A car rally in Bangalore enabled sighted persons to understand the significance of Braille in a blind person’s life, as the blind navigated the sighted drivers to their destination using Braille instructions.,
2005/06/08
Blind cricket is heading for the Caribbean with the West Indies about to form its first team.,
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