Iraq's Paralympic Fencing Team

[MPL]

There's a video on the front page of www.nytimes.com focusing on the Iraqi paralympic fencing team for this year. I was wondering if anyone else has seen it. It's embedded on the front page of the site and I can't figure out how to link to it.

[Phrogger]

Try this permalink:

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_stor...44ebcebc7e5676

[Elendae]

A video about Iraq's paralympic fencers.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_stor...44ebcebc7e5676

[Montoya]

http://video.on.nytimes.com/index.jsp


Look for the clip about Iraq's Paralympic Fencing Team

[Phrogger]

Third post on the same thing.

Iraqi Paralympic Fencers

[Phrogger]

Duplicate.

Iraqi Paralympic Fencers

[Elendae]

so sorry. I did a search and nothing came up.

[Tomas N]

Interesting story. I thought that paralympic fencing involved being a fixed distance from your opponent with no chair movement. Were they practicing moving just for strength training or am I missing something?

[epeemike81]

Originally Posted by Tomas N

Interesting story. I thought that paralympic fencing involved being a fixed distance from your opponent with no chair movement. Were they practicing moving just for strength training or am I missing something?

I didn't see them moving while training...

"The country that has been in three wars in two decades has a remarkably robust and competitive Paralympic team."

I hate to point this out, but I think a country ravaged by war having a robust Paralympic team is actually far from remarkable. Unfortunately, the have a much wider talent base of paralympic athletes than most countries.

-m

[Gav]

Did anyone else notice that the symbol above the door is remarkably similar to the fencing.net one?