PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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PyeongChang 2018 Sport Week: Introduction to cross-country skiing
Athletes compete in short, middle and long distance, and team relay events
Bochet and Bauchet to star on home snow
The French alpine skiers could continue their outstanding seasons at the Tignes World Cup
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Plowing through piles of snow
IPC photographer Luc Percival takes a ride in a “snowcat” to see how a course is prepared
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Hewett seeks first Grand Slam of 2018
British player has the potential of becoming world No.1 if he wins the Australian Open
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Australian athletes set for Gold Coast 2018
Four world champions named to compete in April’s Commonwealth Games
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Second Para Central American Games set to kick off
Nicaraguan capital city of Managua to receive up to 250 athletes from six countries
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Behind the scenes in Tignes
Preparing for the season’s penultimate World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup
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Daviet and Lysova win in Oberried
Benjamin Daviet and Mikhalina Lysova grab the only gold medals they were missing in this season’s World Cup
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PyeongChang 2018 Sport Week: Classification in biathlon
Biathletes are separated into standing, sitting and vision impaired categories for competition
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Batenkova-Bauman takes dramatic win in Oberried
The Ukrainian took women’s standing middle distance gold by slim margins at second World Cup