PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Madeira 2022: Ones to watch
Here are the starts to follow ahead of the World Para Swimming Championships from 12 to 18 June in Portugal
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Pride Month: Sir Lee Pearson on speaking out to create a better world
'We should be promoting the fact that the world should be a more equal place'
![Madison de Rozario it starts with sport](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/Rf7HfjzDfM7ocCFya9zRZNevXUdu93kDmtLVYNarkQ8.jpg?itok=8t3Exuey)
Madison de Rozario on how Para sports taught her to love her ‘perfect’ body
'I believe with every part of me that sport is the easiest, healthiest way to unlearn all those things that we’re taught to believe growing up'
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Ellen Keane set to join Ireland in Madeira
Paralympic champion still recovering from COVID will meet other four members of the team at later stage for the World Championships
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BAC sanctions athlete Vinod Kumar for Intentional Misrepresentation
The results obtained by the Indian athlete in Para athletics competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games have been disqualified
![Dutch player Sam Schroder casts a shadow as he serves in the Australian Open final against Australia's Dylan Alcott.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Sam%20Schroder%20Netherlands%20tennis%20australia%20open.jpg?h=722e9e6e&itok=7R5cWCVQ)
Wheelchair tennis to break new ground at Roland Garros
Record 32 wheelchair tennis players set to contest titles at one of the sport's four majors for the first time
![Argentina's Gustavo Fernandez serves in a doubles match at the 2022 Australian Open.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Gustavo%20Fernandez%20Australian%20Open%202022%20tennis.jpg?h=c15bba75&itok=yTbkn3E6)
Top 5 tips to get started in wheelchair tennis from Grand Slam champion Fernandez
Five-time Grand Slam champion Gustavo Fernandez says wheelchair tennis is sport that can be enjoyed at all levels, from beginners to advanced players
![Marcin Polak and his pilot Michal Ladosz race on the track at Tokyo 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2022-05/Marcin%20Polak%20and%20pilot%20Michal%20Ladosz%20Tokyo%202020%20poland%20track%20cycling.jpg?h=1835bcdf&itok=exlbFJJ_)
UCI statement concerning Marcin Polak
Polak is stripped of his bronze medal in the men's 4000m individual pursuit from Tokyo 2020, which now passes to France's Alexandre Lloveras
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Fleur Jong flies high at L'Hospitalet 2022
Dutch Paralympic champion sets new world record at the traditional international Para athletics meeting in Spain on Saturday
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Debrunner delights home fans with four world records in Nottwil
Marcel Hug is another Swiss wheelchair racing star to set a new world record during the three-day World Para Athletics Grand Prix
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Paralympic champions return to L'Hospitalet
Markus Rehm and Fleur Jong join Adiaratou Iglesias and plenty of local stars at the traditional International Meeting in Spain on Saturday
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European Championships mark new era in Para taekwondo
New fighters emerge as Paris 2024 medal threats as Para taekwondoins compete alongside able-bodied teammates
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Blind skateboarder Mancina on mission to build world's first adaptive skatepark
Detroit-based rider returned to skateboarding after losing all of his vision and now wants to help others with vision impairments pick up the sport
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Pieter Joon to be inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame
Founding father of World ParaVolley will be the first ever inductee from the world of sitting volleyball
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Hershey joins as partner of LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Hershey Company has become the first domestic food partner of the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and also renewed its partnership with Team USA
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Debrunner welcomes new career challenges in Nottwil
Switzerland hosts third Grand Prix of the season with plenty of Paralympic medallists in action from Thursday to Saturday
![Gustavo Sanchez It Starts With Sport](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/EwdQzg1PcETa8DbZBbp1eunE0Mwy8b58srPSIepJ_R4.jpg?itok=Ot2THdrd)
Mexico's Gustavo Sanchez on the magic of diving into challenges
‘Now I am a completely different Gustavo. Sport gives you that confidence’
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Iraqi Para shuttlers keen to make a mark after international debut in Dubai
Team coach aims for his players to rise to the top of the rankings among the Arab countries and in the West Asian region
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Record-breaker Hunt-Broersma will ‘never stop’… unless her other leg ‘falls off’
The South African-born amputee has recently completed 104 marathons in 104 consecutive days
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Santiago 2023 Para swimming medal programme revealed
A total of 148 medal events will be held in the first edition of the Parapan American Games to take place in Chile from 17 to 26 November next year