The headline in The New York Times on May 20, 2010, was pretty amazing: Disabled Athletes Defy an Unaccommodating City. The story was about the Russian Paralympic athletes who returned from the winter Paralympics in Vancouver, Canada, with a huge win in the medal count - significantly more than their Russian Olympic counterparts.
To read this month's column, go to http://www.ncpad.org/832/4222/Russian~Paralympians~Outperform~Their~Olympic~Counterparts
~and~Draw~Attention~to~Disability~Issues.