A program in North Jersey is giving children in wheelchairs a new physical activity to call their own and, their parents say, confidence.

Andrea de Mello, who has been training for the past 23 years to regain some of the athletic ability she lost to a stroke as an adolescent, is headed to Beijing.

Five Olympians have come to New York City, always a hotbed of fencing, to train for Beijing with Yury Gelman at the Manhattan Fencing Club.