PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Worlds medallists and Team Blue win inaugural Online World Cup Series
Colombia's Fabio Torres and Russia's Vera Muratova make history competing from home
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Sabine Ellerbrock bids farewell to wheelchair tennis following successful career
German former world No. 1 says goodbye to women's circuit
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Patience steers Para rower James Fox through coronavirus pandemic
British Paralympic champion shares about a scuppered summer, ‘climbing Everest’ and baking bread
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World Para Powerlifting welcomes BIGSER as an approved supplier
Company will also become presenting partner of the Online World Cup Series
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Para swimmer Patricia Pereira dos Santos banned for anti-doping rule violation
Brazilian suspended for 12 months and forfeits her silver and bronze medals won at the 2019 Parapan American Games
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Tokyo 2020: IPC releases qualification regulations for 11 sports
Together these sports represent almost 3,000 of the available 4,400 athlete slots
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Stranded in Ukraine, Sharad Kumar keen to stay positive
‘I will have to chalk out a different plan to keep myself competition-fit’
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Sport Week: Top moments in Para rowing
British rowers have dominated the headlines across the singles and mixed coxed four disciplines since the sport's Paralympic debut at Beijing 2008
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Sport Week: Welcome to Para rowing
The sport has appeared in three Paralympic Games so far