Dear Athletes and Coaches,

After a ten year run and over thirty world records The Meet in the Heat reached all of it goals and is retiring as an event. Vie Sports Marketing will not host a high performance track event in Atlanta this summer. Born from the simple desire to have world class Paralympic track events in North America, saving on travel costs and making peaking easier, The Meet in the Heat and the World Series hosted for over a decade. Please look for a new meet, with new focus in summer 2010.

All the best,

Scot Hollonbeck

Emory University and AAASP will host the Emory Invitational, a first-of-a-kind national adapted sports track event. High school & collegiate athletes will compete for their school systems and universities. The meet is WSUSA and IPC Athletics sanctioned.

Come join a night of competition, fun and learning. Athletes & coaches are also invited to the AAASP/GHSA Adapted Track Coaching Clinic on Friday morning. Adam Bleakney the Head Coach for the University of Illinois Wheelchair Racing Team will present at the clinic.

Finishing out the weekend will be the Georgia ING Wheeler 1/2 Marathon on Sunday morning.

Emory Invitational info packet [pdf]

Georgia ING Wheeler 1/2 Marathon info packet. [pdf]

Paralympic great Louise Sauvage left the door open for a possible full-time return to wheelchair racing after finishing second at the Oz Day 10K event in Sydney.

In her first race for five years, Sauvage led coming around the final turn at The Rocks in Sydney before being overtaken by fellow Australian Christie Dawes down the home straight.

Sauvage, who won the Sydney race 10 times before ending her glittering career following the Athens Paralympics in 2004, decided to come out of retirement to help commemorate the Oz Day 10K’s 20th anniversary.

Despite a limited training schedule, Sauvage showed she still has plenty of pace in a racing chair, finishing just behind 2008 Beijing Paralympian Dawes in a strong international field. Sauvage, 35, was coy when asked if it was the start of a full-scale comeback.

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'08 SERIES STANDINGS

Name	Nation	Points
Chantal Peticlerc	CAN	7,876.4
Diane Roy	CAN	7,812.5
Edith Hunkeler	SUI	7,792.9
Sandra Graf	SUI	7,783.9
Shelly Woods	CAN	7,741.2

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