Paralympics

Two-time Paralympic bronze medallist Zoe Newson and 2014 world champion Ali Jawad will head Great Britain's nine-member team at the World Para Powerlifting European Championships in Berck-Sur-Mer, France, between 25 and 29 May as announced by British Weightlifting. It will be the first regional ...

Trump says Paralympics were hard to watch. 28 April, 2018: US President Donald Trump implied the Paralympics were “tough to watch” during an event with the athletes at the White House. Added 3 hours ago. FShareTTweetBMailJTumblrGShareLLinkedInWWhatsAppQSMS ...

“Now I'm going to prepare myself for next year's Parapan American Games in Lima and then, God willing, the Paralympics in Tokyo." Elsewhere, S9 world champion Daniela Gimenez, from Argentina, took gold in the women's 200m medley and a silver in the 50m freestyle. Brazil's S9 swimmer Camille ...

Rocha threw a stunning 8.73m in the men's discus F53 - 1cm longer than the previous record Mexican Mauro Maximo de Jesus established at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. "I got the mark right on the first try. I was feeling good, but also a little bit anxious. It seemed like the first time I was going to ...

Slovakia's Veronika Vadovicova won the first gold medal of the 2016 Paralympics in this event, defeating China's Cuiping Zhang. Vadovicova has not taken much time off since Rio 2016, going on a roll to win every R2 competition except March's Al Ain World Cup, where she failed to medal. Even Zhang ...

The sessions provided an opportunity to deliver an update on the progress and priorities of Paris 2024, particularly related to the Paralympics. Over the two days, Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet, his teams and all Organising Committee partners were able to share details of work carried out since the ...

Tump made the comments Friday while congratulating U.S. athletes who competed in the Olympic and Paralympic games in Pyeongchang last month. “What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me,” Trump said in remarks at the White House. “And I watched — it's a little ...

The 2018 Commonwealth Games were a success, but Ryley Batt says keep Olympics and Paralympics separate ... I think we need to leave the Olympic and Paralympic Games separate because that's the pinnacle of our sport and what everyone trains for. Ryley Batt. “I prefer the Paralympics how it is now, ...

The 12-year-old Fairfield boy is training for the 2024 Paralympic Games. Austin was born with amniotic band syndrome, which prevented his arm from growing. "Ever since then, I lived one-hand dominant, and I have never known any other way," he said. The condition hasn't stopped Austin. Instead, it's ...

Even though the Paralympic Games have been around since 1948, they've only recently started to receive the attention from the media and from sponsors that they deserve. The typical Pyeongchang Olympics had over twice the number of worldwide sponsors that the Paralympic Pyeongchang Olympics ...

Team USA versus Canada always has a flair for the dramatic, and the sled hockey gold medal game at the PyeongChang Paralympics was no different. Canada reached the scoreboard first ... The 2018 Winter Paralympic Games will come to an end with the Closing Ceremony. Nordic skier Oksana Masters, ...

As we all know by now, barring a few impressive performances, the highly-anticipated American Olympic team underachieved in Pyeongchang. Team USA left the Games with 23 medals, and placed fourth in the overall standings. But at the Paralympic Games, which wrap up in three days, the American ...

On the evening of March 4, nearly 23 hours after I left my home, I arrived at my accommodations here, to cover my third consecutive Paralympics, the Olympics for athletes with impairments. It is one of my favorite assignments, a refreshing break from covering the N.F.L.. Access need not be negotiated.

Like the recently wrapped Winter Olympics, the Paralympics are airing live overnight thanks to the time difference, spread across several different cable networks and streaming platforms. Unlike the Olympics, NBC itself is only showing the games in prime time twice: one highlight package for the first day of ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) believes that the upcoming Winter Paralympic Games here in Pyeongchang are set to break previous ... Even though the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympics is reportedly struggling to attract a domestic audience, IPC commercial and marketing director Alexis ...

"I'm super happy to be named in the team," said Pollard, who will make his Winter Paralympic Games debut for Australia in Para-snowboarding. "I can't wait to walk out with my countrymen and be part of the spectacle." Pollard's only been home on four occasions since November last year. Those precious ...

The sport started at the Paralympics at the Lillehammer Games in 1994 and many of the rules and regulations of the sport are the same as ice hockey; the main difference is that athletes use specially-designed sledges fitted with two blades to get across the ice and have two playing sticks: both to push ...

(ATR) The Paralympic flame will be ignited once more this week in South Korea to start the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympics. A Paralympian tests the course in ... in the Winter Paralympics. If the North Korea's participation is confirmed it will mark the debut of the country in the Winter Paralympics.

Hundreds of journalists from the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan flocked to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where they watched visually impaired Algerian runner Abdellatif Baka win 1,500-meter gold in faster time than the Olympic champion a month before. And broadcasters all over the ...