PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
IPC President: “Rio 2016 will be the best ever in terms of athletic performance”
To mark 100 days to go until September’s Paralympic Games, Sir Philip Craven has said he expects athletes to raise the bar and put a smile back on the faces of Brazilian people.
Sport week: Introduction to judo
The sport will make its eighth Paralympic appearance in 2016.
Italy’s Boni set to make his Paralympic swimming debut
With 100 days to go, Italy’s world and European record holder dreams of winning a Paralympic medal at Rio 2016.
#MusicMonday with Thailand’s Rawat Tana
The T54 racer impressed at last year’s World Championships but is his musical taste equally as impressive?
Rio 2016 sticker album launched
A number of leading Brazilian Paralympians feature in the new album which will go on sale on Friday 3 June.
Superhero Sundays: Mary Fisher
The New Zealand standout swimmer talks about three people who she looks up to.
Austria’s Rio 2016 kit launched
Swimmer Sabine Weber-Treiber, track athlete Gunther Matzinger and canoeist Markus Swoboda attended the presentation of the kit on 24 May.
Sport Week: Football 7-a-side storylines
Here are five potential storylines to follow ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Belgium's Genyn and Kuwait's Almutairi smash records in Nottwil
Heavy downfalls proved no problem to the wheelchair racers on the fourth morning of the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Switzerland.
Weir makes history as he breaks three minutes for the mile
The British T54 racer was competing in the Vitality Westminster Mile in London.