PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Italian ice sledge hockey team

Find out why Italy are going into the Sochi 2014 Paralympics with little to lose as the seventh-ranked team.

Gordon Reid

Great Britain’s Gordon Reid becomes the first British player to win a men’s Super Series wheelchair tennis title, whilst team-mate Lucy Shuker wins the women’s doubles title in Sydney.

Flag raising Myanmar 2014

11 countries set to compete in 12 sports in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, from Tuesday (14 January).

Dave Malone at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games

Three-time Paralympic swimming medallist Dave Malone has been appointed Paralympics Ireland Performance Manager.

Men's standing podium Super Combined Alpine World Cup Panorama 2014

Austria’s Markus Salcher, France’s Marie Bochet and Germany’s Anna Schaffelhuber all secured their second wins of the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup in Panorama, Canada, on Sunday (12 January) with victories in their respective super combined events.

'Shayba' Arena in Sochi

• Five HD channels will show all winter sports live via www.paralympic.org• Team of writers will produce around 150 stories during the Games

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The conclusion of the IPC Nordic Skiing World Cup shows competition is fierce heading into final two competitions in Germany before Sochi 2014.

Thor Kleppe

Kleppe played a key role in the development of Ice Sledge Hockey and Wheelchair Dance Sport

Panorama

Heavy snow leads to 24 hour delay of super combined event which will now take place on Sunday.

USA ice sledge hockey

The Americans snapped the Canadians’ 16-game winning streak by taking two victories in their exhibition ice sledge hockey series.