Silver and bronze for US crews in historic wins at Paralympics

Two U.S. crews made history Thursday at the 2008 Paralympic Games, winning two of the first-ever awarded medals in the sport of rowing. The mixed four with coxswain won silver, while the women's single sculls won bronze to highlight the final day of competition at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China. via paralympics.teamusa.org

Swimmer Popovich won her fourth gold medal of this Paralympics and 14th lifetime gold medal

Two medals in Pentathlon - Skiba wins silver, Campbell wins gold

Three medals in Track & Field Josiah Jamison along with his guide celebrated winning gold in the men's 100m in his Paralympics debut. He will also run in the 200m and 400 m events. Galli and Forber-Pratt earned gold and bronze in their events

And move over Dara Torres - Barbara Buchan, at the age of 52, won gold in cycling after 26 years of competing and five Paralympic appearances. A former competitor on the short list for a place on the US National Team, she was injured during a qualifying race for the World Championships in her 20's in a pileup, at a time when no helmets were worn. A photo of her is shown above on an orange racing bike on an indoor racetrack, wearing the blue and white US outfit.

Murderball has begun at the Paralympics - quad rugby! Go quads, go quads....

And here's some Yahoo sports photos of the Paralympics I found this evening.....

Gabon's Thierry Mabicka, in a photo to the right holds his left hand up to hide his face after being disqualified in the Men's 800m T54 competitions . It was an apparent equipment disqualification as he did not have a racing wheelchair.

Below, four members of Britain's equestrian team celebrate their gold medal win - two members in power chairs followed by what appears to be two members on a scooter wave at the crowd.