PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Top seeds living up to their billing at Para badminton Worlds
Defending champions among those through to knockout stages after day two
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Oceania nations attend first OCP workshop
Fiji hosts Organisational Capacity Programme launch meeting
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Toyota partners with Paralympics Ireland
Company announces support to the 2020 and 2024 Irish Paralympic teams
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Challenge complete but mission continues for Rob Jones
US Marine veteran thankful for support through journey of 31 marathons in 31 days
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Mexico City 2017: Majid Farzin vs. Gu Xiaofei
Iran’s Paralympic gold medallist and China’s defending world champion will go for gold in the men’s up to 80kg
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Norway’s Sagoy targets second straight gold
Para badminton player will try to defend her singles title in Ulsan
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First flag-bearer at PyeongChang 2018 revealed
Para ice hockey player Florian Planker will carry flag for Italy at Paralympic Winter Games
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 40 Dancing for his wife
Ivan Sivak won World gold, for the first time after his wife passed away
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Mexico City 2017: Lucy Ejike vs. Malgorzata Halas-Koralewska
Nigeria’s Paralympic champion seeks to win her first World title
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Mexico City 2017: Ihar Boki vs. Tucker Dupree
Belarus’ multi-Paralympic champion will be one of the big names competing at the World Championships