PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Fernando Acevedo targets continental success
Nicaraguan seeks gold at Americas Open Championships in Bogota
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Para sport review: January 2018
Winter athletes are getting ready for March’s Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang
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PyeongChang 2018: USA keeping warm on Paralympic parade!
Ralph Lauren-designed Winter Games uniforms include internal heating
PyeongChang 2018 Sport Week: Para ice hockey Ones to Watch
Nine players set to make headlines on the ice at the Winter Paralympics
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Managua 2018: Panama end top of medals table
More than 300 athletes compete at second Para Central American Games
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Draws made for 2018 wheelchair basketball Worlds
Sixteen men’s and 12 women’s teams will battle it out in August
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Call for International Women’s Day award nominations
IPC members invited to nominate person or organisation who has championed gender equality in sports
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Neutral Paralympic Athletes to compete at PyeongChang 2018
IPC maintains Russian Paralympic Committee suspension but allows eligible Russian Para athletes to compete as neutrals at March’s Paralympics
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IPC President Andrew Parsons on the Russian Paralympic Committee
Full speech from Monday’s press conference on IPC decision to allow neutral athletes to compete at PyeongChang 2018
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IPC Athletes’ Council Chair Chelsey Gotell on Russian Paralympic Committee
Full speech from Monday’s press conference on IPC decision to allow neutrals to compete at PyeongChang 2018