When Billy Bridges first made the national Para-hockey team back in 1998, players had to buy their own Canada jerseys off the rack at a sporting goods store.
With the Beijing Winter Games ending on March 13, Japan will turn its attention to discovering young athletes with disabilities who have the potential to become future Paralympic medalists.
The Beijing Paralympics close on March 13 after nine days of sport that focused the world s attention on the plight of Ukraine s athletes and their calls for peace in their homeland while putting the planet s most accomplished disabled winter athletes at center stage.