Selon les responsables, l'Algerie qui sera presente dans plusieurs disciplines sportives, dont le powerlifting, le
goalball et le handi-basket, mise beaucoup sur l'athletisme et le judo, sachant que ces deux disciplines ont souvent donne des satisfactions au sport national.
The remaining 11 teams competed in athletics, volleyball, basketball, handball, table tennis, bowling, weightlifting, swimming, judo, karate and
goalball.
Kirklees athletes Peter Doyle, 17, and Brittany Stead, 18, tackled the 170-mile coast to coast Way of the Roses cycle route in aid of
goalball, which they both play competitively.
They will take part in athletics, swimming, table tennis, powerlifting, chess, archery and wheelchair basketball but not in boccia,
goalball, football 7-aside, football 5-aside and sitting volleyball.
There are 22 sports on the Summer Games program--including athletics (track and field), archery, boccia, canoe, cycling, five-on-five soccer, seven-on-seven soccer, equestrian,
goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, sailing, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, triathlon, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis.
The aquatics centre, the velodrome and the basketball arena have now been handed over to LLDC with the copper box, where the handball and
goalball competitions were held, to follow in November and the Olympic stadium and press and broadcast centres in December.
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goalball, Bahrain were handed their third defeat in Group 'B', this time going down 0-10 to Iraq.
In total, designs of 29 sports were picked from 30,000 entries with the winning designs including swimming, boxing, gymnastics, boccia and
goalball.
Overall, the pounds 11m of public money remaining in the pot will be split between: fencing, handball, shooting, table tennis, volleyball/beach volleyball, water polo, weightlifting and wrestling, plus Paralympic sports fencing,
goalball, volleyball and wheelchair basketball (women).