PRECEDENT FOR OTHERS. A CONTAGIOUS LAUGH COMING FROM FOUR YEAR OLD JOHNNY BLACKWELL. TAKEAWAY, TAKEAWAY. HOT DOG. ABSOLUTELY. WE COULD BE SOMEWHERE. AND HE JUST LAUGHING, SURROUNDED BY HIS FAVORITE ...

Swimming Without the Black Line: How Blind Athletes Adapt By McClain Hermes, Swimming World Intern When I began swimming at the age of four, I told my parents that I wanted to go to the Olympics. As I ...

PHOENIX — You’ve heard of jail breaks. Now, a group of blind Valley swimmers are headed to California to do a “Braille Break from Alcatraz.” The group is planning to swim from Alcatraz Island to the ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. -- A young Pasco County girl who is completely blind needed help adapting to the world around her, but she also has motivated others to adapt to her. Ayva Lynn Finch is 5 years ...

Lucas Lopez takes a couple of confident steps into the indoor pool at Echo Hollow in Eugene. Wearing goggle, Lopez gets right to work, swimming with a kickboard back and forth on the outermost lane ...

Melanie Barratt is a multi-medal winning Paralympic swimmer who won two golds, two silvers and a bronze medal at the Paralympic games in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000. She has also won numerous golds ...