2004 Paralympic Games 

September 17 - 28, 2004, Athens, Greece (What is the Paralympic Games?)

Eric DeGolier and Matt will compete in the Track Cycling competitions at the Olympic Velodrome, at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, September 20-22, 2004. The Olympic Velodrome is expected to host 5,250 spectators, who will have the opportunity to view the fast-paced sport in the modern Velodrome venue.  Eric and Matt will also compete in Road Cycling. Their Road Cycling event will be held in Vouliagmeni, on September 25.

Opening and Closing Ceremonies 

September 17 - Opening Ceremonies  An entertainment extravaganza combining ceremonial aspects and world class entertainment. Cheer on the athletes as they march proudly into the Olympic Stadium. On September 9, the Paralympic Torch Relay will be lit for the ninth time in history – and this time, it will be in Athens. Its route will take it throughout Attica, passing through 54 municipalities and covering a distance of 410 km. 680 torchbearers will share its light and the values of strength, pursuit and noble competition. On September 17, the Paralympic Flame will offer its light to the Olympic Stadium, in an Opening Ceremony that will inspire the world to celebrate the first Paralympic Games in Greece.

September 28 - Closing Ceremonies, Final farewell to the exciting 60 day Olympic and Paralympic sporting festival. 

Matt's Race Results

Note for Media:  here is a press version of Matt's bio in MS Word Format

Name:  Matt King

Competition Highlights:

 2004: US Paralympic Trials: first in the men’s match sprints, second in the kilometer, and third in the pursuit.

2000: Sydney Paralympic games placed ninth in men’s match sprints, fourteenth in men’s one kilometer time trial, sixteenth in men’s 118k road race, EDS National Cycling Championships’, Colorado Springs, Colo., competed against National elite/professional cyclists and placed second in the Men’s Tandem Match Sprints, Points leader in the men’s category of the 2000 ICG Tandem Series, Colorado Tandem Invitational, Colorado Springs, Colo., placed first in the Men's Match Sprints..WFMZ Invitational, Trexlertown, Pa., placed first in the Men’s Match Sprints..WE Media Tandem Invitational, Trexlertown, Pa., placed first in the Men’s Match Sprints..Good Shephards Tandemonium at T-Town, Trexlertown, Pa., placed fourth in the Men’s Match Sprints, Texas Tandemonium, Houston, Tex., placed first in the Men’s Match Sprints and second in the Mixed Tandem Match Sprints.

1999: Points leader in both mixed and men’s categories of the 1999 WE Magazine Tandem Sprint Series, EDS National Cycling Championships’, Trexlertown, Pa., won the Mixed Tandem Match Sprints, Tandemonium placed fourth in the Men’s Match Sprints, and won the Revenge Match against the Australians in Colorado Springs, Colo.

1998: EDS National Cycling Championships’, Frisco, Texas, competed against National elite cyclists and placed third in the Men’s Tandem Match Sprints…USABA National Track Championships, won the mixed tandem kilometer time trial (1:10.437-world record), and won the Mixed Tandem Match Sprints…IPC World Cycling Championships for the Disabled, Colorado Springs, Colo., placed second in the Men’s Tandem Match Sprints.  

1997: EDS National Cycling Championships’, Colorado Springs, Colo., became the first blind rider to compete and place on a national level against sighted elite cyclists and placed fourth in the Men’s Tandem Match Sprints…USABA National Track Championships, Houston, Texas, won the 3 km/4km mixed tandem time trials and the 1 km time trial (1:12.354)…USABA National Road Championships, Tallahassee, Fla., placed second in 80k road race.

1996:    Atlanta Paralympics, set a world record (4 minutes 32.83 seconds) during quarter-finals in 4,000 meter tandem men’s pursuit…Paralympic trials, Colorado Springs, Colo., won men’s road, kilo, and pursuit events and placed second in men’s match sprints…USABA National Championships, Santa Rosa, Calif., won men’s road race and time trials.

1995:    USABA National Championships, Nashville, Tenn., won 40-kilometer men’s tandem time trial and road race.