You Searched For "paralympics games" and got 19 results
Sort By:
3 mins read
Eurosport India secures rights to broadcast Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympic Games
Eurosport India shall be the exclusive pay TV partner in the SAARC countries
3 mins read
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games' first FMCG partner, Thums up, salutes the strength and resilience of Paralympic Athletes in latest campaign
The campaign is conceptualised by Ogilvy India
1 min read
Krishna Nagar bags India’s second gold medal in badminton at Tokyo Paralympics
Krishna Nagar won India's second gold medal from the badminton courts and fifth overall, beating Ho…
1 min read
Afghan paralympic duo make it to Tokyo games after being evacuated from Afghanistan
Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli will now compete at the Paralympic Games after a campaign to ge…
Bethany Dawson
1 min read
A Ukrainian Paralympian pulled out of her race after finding out that her father had been captured by Russian soldiers
Anastasiia Laletina was "very upset" and couldn't compete in the middle-distance sitting para biath…
Sophia Ankel
3 mins read
Technology has helped para athletes compete for decades. But it can also create an unfair advantage
In the early days, Paralympic technology was basic by today's standards. Athletes competed in regul…
PTI
2 mins read
The hopes of Afghanistan's first female Paralympian dashed as she is unable to leave country
Zakia Khudadadi was supposed to make history as the first female Paralympian to represent Afghanist…
Bethany Dawson
2 mins read
Afghanistan's first female Paralympian gave a desperate plea for help to escape the Taliban and make it to Tokyo
Zakia Khudadadi was one of two Afghan athletes due to fly out, but has been unable to leave followi…
Sam Cooper
2 mins read
Toyota suspends use of its self-driving buses after one accidentally hit a visually-impaired athlete in Tokyo's Paralympic Games village
The autonomous vehicles were shown off at the 2020 Tokyo Games, helping athletes travel to their ev…
Francis Agustin
1 min read
Disability sport in Ukraine has 'died' thanks to the Russian invasion, the country's Paralympic boss says
"The best athletes in the world in Paralympic sport don't know if they can continue," Valeriy Sushk…
Barnaby Lane
2 mins read
A Ukrainian biathlete won bronze at the Paralympic Winter Games just a day after his house was destroyed by Russian shelling
Dmytro Suiarko finished third in the men's middle distance vision impaired biathlon in Beijing on T…
Barnaby Lane
3 mins read
The Harsh Financial Reality Of Being A Paralympic Athlete
DU: The season budget is the same whether it is a Paralympic year or not. In years when we are not …
3 mins read
Tokyo Paralympic Games — India’s Bhavina Patel enters table tennis final, gold medal match on Sunday
The 34-year-old Patel, who had surprised even the Indian camp in the Paralympics with her sensat…
PTI
1 min read
Paralympic Committee display Afghan flag during opening ceremony in 'solidarity' with athletes who were forced to withdraw due to Taliban takeover
Two Afghan athletes were scheduled to compete in the Paralympics this year, but they had to withdra…
Kelly McLaughlin
2 mins read
India's history-making Paralympians touch down in Delhi to rousing welcome
Indian Paralympic athletes received a grand welcome at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport …
ANI
3 mins read
I've welded and patched wheelchairs for the US wheelchair-rugby team at 4 Paralympic Games. This is how I got into it and what it's like.
Bob Murray accompanied Team USA to Paralympics in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. He lo…
Jessica Farthing
1 min read
Tokyo Paralympics: Vinod Kumar claims bronze in discus throw F52
Vinod Kumar won India's third medal on National Sports Day, claiming a bronze in discus throw F52 e…
5 mins read
This Paralympian is going for 3 gold medals in 3 different sports
And Nichols didn't stop after 2010. Two years later, she returned to play wheelchair basketbal…
Caroline Praderio
2 mins read
Chinese translators offered a watered-down version of the Paralympic Committee president's anti-war speech during the Games' opening ceremony
China has avoided condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Its state broadcaster, CCTV, has also ke…