After Canada's memorable award pull at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Canadian Paralympic competitors are seeking after comparable achievement.
Fifty-five competitors are contending on Group Canada amid the recreations, which commenced Friday in Pyeongchang. It is the biggest unforeseen ever to contend under the maple leaf.
Canada had a fruitful first day, with 20-year-old Macintosh Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie dashing to gold in the men's outwardly hindered downhill race. Prior in the day, Mollie Jepsen of Whistler, B.C. caught bronze in the ladies' declining standing occasion, winning Canada's first decoration of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Amusements.
At the point when the competitors walked into Pyeongchang Stadium for the opening functions, they were driven by Brian McKeever, an improved Paralympian with 10 gold decorations. These Winter Recreations stamp his fifth time going after Canada.
The 10-day occasion speaks to the world's greatest festival of competitors living with inabilities. Linda Soulliere of the Coalition for People with Handicaps trusts observers figure out how to take a gander at the competitors through another focal point.
"It sort of movements the dispositions of other individuals so they can state, amazing, the things that should be possible, as opposed to take a gander at what they can't do," Soulliere said.
Among those observers is Matthew Armada, a focused swimmer and quadriplegic who is eager to applaud Group Canada. He trusts different Canadians will watch the amusements and take away a more noteworthy feeling of the exertion that goes into contending - and just living - with a disability."Our society, we are as yet not a completely open society," he said. Mollie Jepsen wins bronze, Canada's first award at Pyeongchang Paralympic Recreations Mollie Jepsen has won the main decoration for Canada at the Pyeongchang Paralympic Amusements.
The 18-year-old from Vancouver caught bronze on Saturday in the ladies' standing downhill occasion with a period of one moment 34.60 seconds at the Jeongseon Snow capped Center, behind victor Marie Bochet of France (1:30.30) and sprinter up Andrea Rothfuss of Germany.
Calgary's Alana Ramsay simply missed the platform, completing fourth with a period of . Later Saturday, Macintosh Marcoux and guide Jack Leitch won Canada's first gold decoration of the Amusements, completing first in the declining for outwardly disabled occasion.
Canada is hoping to enhance the 16 awards it won at the Sochi Paralympics in 2014.
The Canadian group of 55 competitors and aides landed in Pyeongchang under two weeks after their Olympic partners finished the best winter Recreations in Canadian history, winning 29 decorations for third by and large.
Fifty-five competitors are contending on Group Canada amid the recreations, which commenced Friday in Pyeongchang. It is the biggest unforeseen ever to contend under the maple leaf.
Canada had a fruitful first day, with 20-year-old Macintosh Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie dashing to gold in the men's outwardly hindered downhill race. Prior in the day, Mollie Jepsen of Whistler, B.C. caught bronze in the ladies' declining standing occasion, winning Canada's first decoration of the 2018 Paralympic Winter Amusements.
At the point when the competitors walked into Pyeongchang Stadium for the opening functions, they were driven by Brian McKeever, an improved Paralympian with 10 gold decorations. These Winter Recreations stamp his fifth time going after Canada.
The 10-day occasion speaks to the world's greatest festival of competitors living with inabilities. Linda Soulliere of the Coalition for People with Handicaps trusts observers figure out how to take a gander at the competitors through another focal point.
"It sort of movements the dispositions of other individuals so they can state, amazing, the things that should be possible, as opposed to take a gander at what they can't do," Soulliere said.
Among those observers is Matthew Armada, a focused swimmer and quadriplegic who is eager to applaud Group Canada. He trusts different Canadians will watch the amusements and take away a more noteworthy feeling of the exertion that goes into contending - and just living - with a disability."Our society, we are as yet not a completely open society," he said. Mollie Jepsen wins bronze, Canada's first award at Pyeongchang Paralympic Recreations Mollie Jepsen has won the main decoration for Canada at the Pyeongchang Paralympic Amusements.
The 18-year-old from Vancouver caught bronze on Saturday in the ladies' standing downhill occasion with a period of one moment 34.60 seconds at the Jeongseon Snow capped Center, behind victor Marie Bochet of France (1:30.30) and sprinter up Andrea Rothfuss of Germany.
Calgary's Alana Ramsay simply missed the platform, completing fourth with a period of . Later Saturday, Macintosh Marcoux and guide Jack Leitch won Canada's first gold decoration of the Amusements, completing first in the declining for outwardly disabled occasion.
Canada is hoping to enhance the 16 awards it won at the Sochi Paralympics in 2014.
The Canadian group of 55 competitors and aides landed in Pyeongchang under two weeks after their Olympic partners finished the best winter Recreations in Canadian history, winning 29 decorations for third by and large.
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