Goalball is unique to Paralympic sports ... Remarkably, considering that the ball weighs 1.25kg (roughly 2.75 pounds) and is about the same size as a basketball, the best players in the ...
Goalball is a paralympic sport created for blind and vision-impaired athletes. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Andy Jenks, a former member of the U.S. goalball team and a silver Paralympic medalist.
“It's very hard to do that. And one of our former coaches used to be on our goalball team at CSDB, and he was very good at doing this little spin on the ball and you couldn't hear the bell.
Goalball is unique to Paralympic sports – a fast, skillful game without an Olympic counterpart in which visually impaired players seek to score by throwing balls into a goal defended by the other team ...