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☆ Steve Serio and Nicky Nieves named as Team USA flag bearers for 2024 Paralympic Games
  + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Ariana Brockington | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
Athletes Steve Serio and Nicky Nieves have been selected as the Team USA flag bearers for the upcoming 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. The 2024 Games in Paris will mark his fifth Paralympics as he previously competed in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, 2012 London Paralympic Games, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games and 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. Ahead of the Paris Paralympic Games, Team USA shared a video on Instagram of Serio, 36, taking a trip down memory lane as he revisited his headshots for past Games. The Team USA Instagram account shared a photo of Nieves posing alongside some of her USA women’s sitting volleyball teammates on Thursday. The 2024 Paris Paralympic Games begins with its opening ceremony on Aug. 28 and will end on Sept. 8.
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☆ A Paralympic athlete might become the world's first disabled astronaut
  + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
He's part of a European Space Agency "feasibility project" to include astronauts with disabilities. John McFall is 0ne of the European Space Agency's new class of trainee astronauts — its first batch of new recruits in 13 years. The ESA hopes that McFall will be the first astronaut with a physical disability to travel into space. McFall told BBC News he'd never dreamed of becoming an astronaut, but felt inspired by the ESA's commitment to supporting diversity. McFall is due to start a 12-month program of basic training at the European Space Agency in Spring next year.
☆ Europe names world's first disabled astronaut
  + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Member of ESA's new class of astronauts John McFall attends the European Space Agency (ESA) Council at Ministerial level (CM22) at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris, France, November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Benoit TessierPARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The 22-nation agency said it had selected former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall as part of a new generation of 17 recruits picked for astronaut training. He will join five new career astronauts and 11 reserves in training after ESA replenished its astronaut ranks for the first time since 2009. It received 257 applications for the role of astronaut with a disability, a parallel role that it terms "parastronaut".
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