The history of the Paralympics dates back nearly 80 years. The Paris Paralympics are set to start later this month, taking place over 10 days of competition from Wednesday, August 28, to Sunday ...

Latin America’s first Paralympics will be remembered as the peoples’ Games where the people of Rio turned out in their droves to support athletes of all countries. Rio 2016 arguably did more for the ...

Climate change and the resulting lack of snow is a "permanent concern" for the Winter Paralympics, says IPC president Andrew ...

Kirsty Coventry was been elected president of the International Olympic Committee as the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in ...

Italy's 50-year-old sprinter Valentina Petrillo will become the first openly transgender athlete to participate in the Paralympics. An Italian movie titled 5 nanomoli-Il sogno olimpico di una ...

Some athletes have complained that their medals have been discoloured or chipped. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The first Paralympics was held in London in 1948, though it’s come a long way since the 16 athletes competed at the time. In 2024, more than 4,000 athletes from 179 countries will compete across ...

BERLIN - Each sport must set its own rules on the participation of transgender athletes instead of one global rule and it must be based on scientific data, International Paralympics Committee ...

Masters, who won her first-ever biathlon gold at the Paralympics yesterday, is the reigning world champion in this event, while Gretsch, yesterday's bronze medalist, is the defending Paralympic ...

Skarstein is believed to be the first Chief Inspiration Officer of this kind within the financial services industry. Her appointment reflects Enfuce's courage to do things differently in the B2B world ...

27-year-old Thomas Walsh, survivor of a rare form of bone cancer known as Ewing’s sarcoma, secured the first Alpine skiing medal of his Paralympics career – and the first Alpine medal for Team USA at ...

Estonian pair Ain Villau and Kätlin Riidebach have won bronze at the World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in ...