PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Lima 2021: Ukraine and South Korea dominate days 1 and 2
Nine athletes earn Tokyo 2020 qualification spots after the first two days of action at the World Cup in the Peruvian capital
Sport Week: 10 things to know about goalball
The original team sport for people with vision impairments, goalball celebrates its 75 year anniversary in 2021.
![Ricardinho controls the ball, while two Turkish players try to take it from him](/sites/default/files/images/190604085911896_Ricardinho-Brazil.jpg)
Tokyo 2020 football 5-a-side groups decided
Four-time Paralympic champions Brazil lead group A while rival Argentina drawn separately
![Italian Para cyclist Luca Mazzone in his wheelchair on the podium](/sites/default/files/2021-06/Luca-Mazzone.jpg)
Paralympic champion Luca Mazzone secures hat-trick of titles at Road Worlds
Italy finish at top of the medal standings with 13 golds, four silver and two bronze in Portuguese soil
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Ostrava 2021: Get to know Norway
All the information you need to follow the Norwegian team during the World Championships that kicks off this week
![A female leg amputee and a men in a wheelchair practicing shooting in an indoor shooting range](/sites/default/files/2021-06/51232287762_29b0f656ee_b.jpg)
Stage set for first World Cup in Lima
Peruvian capital host 157 athletes from 44 nations in the last shooting Para sport qualification event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
![Two French defenders stop a Brazilian blind footballer](/sites/default/files/2021-06/Ricardo-David-Labarre-Abderrahim-Maya-football-5.jpg)
Vive la revolution: France plans football 5-a-side renaissance at Tokyo 2020
National team had to hit rock bottom first to build up and return to the Paralympics
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From kitchen to Formula 1 lab, a Swift mission
Great Britain’s Para snowboarder Darren ‘Swifty’ Swift and graphic designer Dale Rennard eager to open sport to double above-the-knee amputees
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Nigerian athlete Roland Ezuruike receives 18-month ban for whereabouts rule violation
Para powerlifter handed the first sanction related to a whereabouts violation by the International Paralympic Committee
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Ostrava 2021: Get to know Italy
A closer look at one of the most consistent teams in action on the ice at this month's World Para Ice Hockey Championships