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Paralympics preview: shooting day two
Paralympic legends Sareh Javanmardi and Yang Chao to be the biggest stars in action at the Asaka Shooting Range on 31 August

Day 3: Paralympic Games preview
Athletics takes centerstage and judo starts action, while swimming and track cycling go on awarding medals

Kukundakwe hopes her Paralympic campaign will change perceptions
The youngest Paralympian at Tokyo 2020 hopes her debut has an impact that reaches outside of sport

IPC reminds athletes to prepare for heat and humidity at Tokyo 2020
Awareness and methods to counteract adverse weather effects can help Para athletes perform at their best

China’s Guo Lingling yearns to clinch first Paralympic gold
World record holder and favourite for gold, Chinese lifter will have Indonesia's Ni Nengah Widiasih and Syria’s Noura Badour as main rivals in the -41kg event

From the saddle to the cells: Danish rider plans to improve local penal system
After the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Tobias Jorgensen wants to help rehabilitate prison inmates in his country

Four golds for Australia on fantastic day one
Fourteen-year old gives Japan its first medal at the home Games while Paralympic legend Daniel Dias extends his legacy with 25th medal in the pool

Four gold medals only part of the plan for Sherif Osman
'My dream is to win six gold medals in six Paralympic Games. I feel I am standing at the middle of my road. I have a lot of road left, and it will be difficult'

How surviving a hippo attack helps archer Philip Coates-Palgrave keep calm
'When you go down it is like being in a huge washing machine. You've got to give yourself and trust that you will go to the surface at some point'

Day 1 review: Australia’s Greco snags first gold of Games, China sabre sweep
Australia finish first day on top of the medals table with 10 while China come in second with a total of eight, including five golds

No rival for China in first day of wheelchair fencing in Tokyo
Chinese athletes swept all four gold medals available in the sabre individual category A and B events

Tokyo 2020 Day 2: Ones to Watch
Champions at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Bruinsma and Rong seek more gold medals in Japan

Paige Greco wins first gold of the Paralympic Games
The 24-year-old sets a world record on her way to the women's 3,000m individual pursuit C1-3

Haiti arrives at the Paralympic Games amid devastating earthquake
"It’s really important for Haiti to be here, to show the world that we are still here."

Abarza claims Chile's second Paralympic gold medal ever
The 36-year old topped the podium in the men's 100m backstroke S2

Day 2: Paralympic Games preview
Medals to be awarded in cycling track, equestrian, powerlifting, swimming and wheelchair fencing

Baker makes all the right sounds as 'horse whisperer'
'Lottie is my sole focus. I devote all of my time and all of my energy into her, because we have to have a really deep connection'

Leading Para table tennis athletes reflect on the Olympic Games
Melissa Tapper of Australia and Natalia Partyka of Poland, both known rivals, qualified for both the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Greek father and son making Paralympic history
Lazaros and Leontios Stefanidis get ready for their Games debut competing in men's shot put F33 and F20, respectively at Tokyo 2020

Sarah Storey clinches 15th gold of her Paralympic career
'It's quite overwhelming. I don't know if it will sink in until I get home'