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Birthday boys Bertagnolli and Ravelli snatch giant slalom gold
Jesper Pedersen delivers host another world title while RPC’s Bugaev tops podium on fourth try at the World Para Snow Sports Championships
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Gambia's Gamo keeps Paralympic dream alive
Para powerlifter wants to attract more young athletes to the sport in his country with his results on the international stage
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Masters claims 10th title days after recovering from COVID
Faulty lap count costs Italy’s Giuseppe Romele his first World Championships gold as Ivan Golubkov extends his winning streak in Lillehammer
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France Télévisions is official broadcaster for Paris 2024
• All sports will be captured and broadcast live, for the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games, with free access to 300 hours of live coverage
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Magnificent Monday for Knight and De Silvestro
Italian skier stages major upset to take his first-ever World Championships gold as British vision impaired star returns to the top after five years
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World Para Dance Sport pays tribute to Hans Verhoeven
Former Dutch dancer was one of the founders of the traditional Cuijk International Competition
IPC saddened by passing of Ali Harzallah
Former IPC Governing Board Member passes away on 16 January 2022
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Para Swimming World Series calendar updated
Italy to follow first two stops in Aberdeen and Melbourne with Lignano Sabbiadoro World Series in March
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Beijing 2022 spectator policy finalised
Tickets will not be sold anymore but be part of an adapted programme that will invite groups of spectators to be present on site during the Games
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Belarus’ Holub reigns supreme for second gold despite icy slip
Liudmyla Liashenko leads Ukraine's second consecutive biathlon sweep in Lillehammer to defend title and record first win this season
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Para biathlon clean sweeps for RPC and Ukraine in Norway
Germany's Anja Wicker takes her first World Championships gold in Para biathlon in five years in Oksana Master's debut at Lillehammer 2021
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'Crazy run' gives Kampschreur men's sitting Super-G gold
RPC’s Varvara Voronchikhina overtakes French legend Marie Bochet to win gold at debut World Championships in Norway
Bunschoten trails, falls, recovers and wins third world title
USA riders snatch three gold medals at first Para snowboard races in Lillehammer with history-making dual banked slalom event
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Austria’s Salcher regains downhill crown after five-year wait
French legend Marie Bochet wins gold in downhill and keeps the hope of defending full sweep after the first day (14 January) of Para alpine action
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Beijing 2022: Hockey competition schedule announced
USA and Canada to meet on opening day at the National Indoor Stadium in a repeat of the last Paralympic Winter Games final
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Royals crown six new champions as hosts strike gold on day one
Vilde Nilsen puts Norway on top of the podium while RPC and USA collect two gold medals each as action gets underway in Lillehammer
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Lillehammer sets new milestone with prize money for medallists
World Para Snow Sports Championships in Norway to offer a total of 170,000 Euro to athletes who reach the podium in individual events
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Alpine and cross-country skiing kick off the action
Thursday marks the opening day of a history-making World Para Snow Sports Championships with 850 athletes from 42 nations competing in Norway
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Athletes call on world leaders for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines
'Now, more than ever, we stand united to use that power of sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Movement to help win the battle against COVID because we go faster, we aim higher, we are stronger when we stand together'