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About fifteen teams participated in the stand-up amputee volleyball competition. Most teams were recruited and sponsored by various NGOs. In this picture three of the men have an artificial leg and one is missing his left hand. |
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The volleyball matches always had plenty of spectators. Here a group of men in wheelchairs talk during a time out in one of the matches. |
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Not everyone watched the volleyball games or the target shooting or the track events. Children of the disabled sportsmen and women found other ways to amuse themselves. Here a young boy plays with a leaky hose that was spraying water in the air. |
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One of the disadvantages of having a mobility impairment is a degree of social isolation because of the difficulty of traveling in a country like Cambodia, where it is difficult for EVERYone to travel, not just the amputees for whom it might be almost impossible. Here a group of men take advantage of their time together to catch up with each other. |
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There are no huge TV screens or electronic scoreboards at the Old Stadium in Phnom Penh. Team members crowd around the chart of team standings just as enthusiastically though, checking to see who's on top at this point and whom they play next. |
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One of the sports very popular at the Handi-Sports Day was petancque, a form of lawn bowling. In its best setting, the solid steel balls with a few grooves cut into them are bowled along a long alley--like a bowling lane but much shorter--made of what seems to be a hard packed ash. For the competition with the disabled, the lanes were marked with string on a track surface made of small gravel but that didn't seem to bother anyone. |
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Lots of hawkers spent their days at the Old Stadium hoping for sales to the athletes and the few spectators who were there. This man's bicycle-mounted sales case is a common scene around Phnom Penh. Usually they are selling some kind of cooked or deep-fried snacks or slices of fresh fruit. |