PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Grand Prix 2024: Superstar Season heads to Jesolo
Home contingent and international stars meet at the third GP of the season in Italy and the first to take place in Europe this year
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David Smith ‘rips up the rulebook’ in bid for boccia gold
Three-time Paralympic champion finds the fun in competing again ahead of his fifth Games
![Reigning world champion Rehab Ahmed will hope to continue her gold medal winning show at home in the Cairo 2023 World Cup.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2023-11/Egypt%27s%20Rehab%20Ahmed%20will%20hope%20to%20continue%20her%20gold%20medal%20winning%20show%20at%20home%20in%20the%20Cairo%202023%20World%20Cup.%20.jpg?itok=FmMMyDMX)
Strong line-up for first Sharm El Sheikh 2024 World Cup
Paralympic and world stars including Rehab Ahmed, Sherif Osman, Abdelkareem Khattab, Onyinyechi Mark and Kafila Almaruf in action in six-day event
![blind footballer Babacar Niang holds off another player from the ball](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2024-03/Babacar%20Niang%2C%20France%2C%20blind%20football%20.jpg?itok=3wNnqqrt)
Tough training gives Niang his football focus
France’s blind football captain in peak condition for medal hopes at home Paralympic Games
![A male and a female wheelchair curlers take part in a competition](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2024-03/Republic%20of%20Korea%20wheelchair%20curling%20mixed%20doubles.jpg?h=da37c5b9&itok=pfrToXX8)
Republic of Korea win gold at World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The hosts won the SD Biosensor World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship at the Gangneung Curling Centre
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World Series 2024: Fantin, Newman-Baronius’ dazzling performances steal show
Athletes propel their respective nations Italy and Great Britain to six gold medals each, while two world records were broken in Lignano Sabbiadoro
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Ones to Watch for Para badminton
The ten names you should be looking out for when the next Paralympics kick off in France this summer
![Raimundo 'Nonato' Mendes, a male blind football player from Brazil, celebrates after scoring a goal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_crop_16_9_800_450/public/2024-03/Blind%20football%20-%20Raimundo%20Nonato%20Mendes.jpg?h=c10a9ba5&itok=Oxyfxsxb)
Raimundo ‘Nonato’ Mendes turns passion into Paralympic titles
Brazil’s guitar-playing, worldie-scoring blind football star Nonato is aiming for a fourth gold medal at the Paris 2024 Games. He reflects on turning his passion into Paralympic titles
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Paris 2024: Snisla’s meteoric rise in blind football
The breakout star of the Moroccan blind football team talks training, Tokyo 2020 and his plans for Paris as we count down to the next Paralympic Games.
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New Delhi 2024: Steady shooting and stamina propel Reinaldo to top
Spaniard signs off on high even as China finish on top and Turkey's Civek secures quota on final day of season's first World Cup