PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Canadian para-Nordic Skiing team for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games

Canada are confident that team of 11 athletes and three guides heading to Sochi is one of the "most talented yet."

Russia's ice sledge hockey team

Can Russia’s ice sledge hockey team please the home fans at Sochi 2014 by medalling in their Paralympic debut?

Katarzyna Rogowiec

The cross-country skiing power house will head to Sochi with a strong team once again.

Adam Hall in action

New Zealand to receive free-to-air coverage of Winter Paralympic Games

Alexandra Rickham and Niki Birrell

The first ISAF Sailing World Cup of 2014 was dominated by the British favourites.

Marie Bochet

Alpine skiers Marie Bochet and Vincent Gauthier-Manuel are expected to headline France’s Sochi 2014 team.

Training at the IPCAS Snowboard World Cup Finals La Molina, Spain

The Netherlands’s Bibian Mentel-Spee continued her stunning form on Tuesday (11 February) in La Molina, Spain, by claiming victory at the IPCAS Snowboard World Cup Finals to maintain her 100 per cent record for the season.

A picture of a man in a sledge skiing

With only one athlete winning all 10 Paralympic Winter Games medals to date, the Netherlands will hope to diversify at Sochi.

A picture of people posing for a group photo

Fifteen years after joining the Paralympic Movement, NPC Cape Verde now has an office to call home.

Dylan Alcott celebrates winning his quad wheelchair tennis singles match against Great Britain's Andy Lapthorne at the 2014 Australian Open.

The Melbourne native has swapped wheelchair basketball for wheelchair tennis, and is now the No. 10 quads player in the world.