Brian Mckeever to compete Sunday

I've dedicated a few posts to Canadian Olympic cross country skier Brian Mckeever.  He is 30 years old, has Stargardts disease, is legally blind, and is competing in both the Olympic and Paralympic games this winter.  He will be the first athlete in history to do so.

He is competing in the Men's 50km Mass Start Classic, It starts Sunday February 28th at 9:30 AM PSD.  If you are on the east cost set your DVR's.

Again we'll be cheering for him even though he's Canadian.

Update: (3/2/2010):  Unfortunately according to Wikipedia Brian did not compete on Sunday. 

however Canada's coach decided to replace him with a skier who did well at an earlier event at the 2010 games and thus he will not become the first athlete in the world to compete in the Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics in the same year.

World Sight Day 2009

Today is apparently World Sight Day.  This year’s theme to World Sight Day is equal access to care.  There seems to be events in Thailand, Botswana, and Iran.  The events and the day are sponsored by Vision 2020.  From their home page

VISION 2020 is the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness, a joint programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) with an international membership of NGOs, professional associations, eye care institutions and corporations.

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