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- Chris_Holmes_(swimmer) abstract "Chris Holmes, Baron Holmes of Richmond MBE (born 15 October 1970) is a former British swimmer. He won a total of nine golds, five silvers, and one bronze medal at the Paralympic Games. Holmes represented Great Britain at four Paralympics, from 1988 to 2000. He is blind. It was announced that he would be elevated to the House of Lords in August 2013, as a Conservative party peer.Holmes was already a swimmer with the goal of representing his country when he became blind as a teenager due to Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy, a genetic eye disorder. He joined a Birmingham club where he committed to the same training regime as other sighted swimmers aspiring to the Olympics. He went on to study politics at Cambridge, and became a Paralympic activist, in particular drawing attention to the issues of equal accommodations and facilities for Paralympic athletes.Holmes has also been a Commissioner for the Disability Rights Commission. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1993 New Year's Honours, for services to swimming for the disabled.In August 2009, he was named the Director of Paralympic Integration for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics in London.On 13 September 2013 he was created a life peer taking the title Baron Holmes of Richmond, of Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.".
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