PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Republic of Korea win gold at World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
The hosts won the SD Biosensor World Wheelchair Mixed Doubles Curling Championship at the Gangneung Curling Centre
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World Series 2024: Fantin, Newman-Baronius’ dazzling performances steal show
Athletes propel their respective nations Italy and Great Britain to six gold medals each, while two world records were broken in Lignano Sabbiadoro
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Paris 2024: Ones to Watch for Para badminton
The ten names you should be looking out for when the next Paralympics kick off in France this summer
![Raimundo 'Nonato' Mendes, a male blind football player from Brazil, celebrates after scoring a goal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.](/sites/default/files/2024-03/Blind%20football%20-%20Raimundo%20Nonato%20Mendes.jpg)
Paris 2024: Raimundo ‘Nonato’ Mendes turns passion into Paralympic titles
Brazil’s guitar-playing, worldie-scoring blind football star Nonato is aiming for a fourth gold medal at the Paris 2024 Games. He reflects on turning his passion into Paralympic titles
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Paris 2024: Zouhair Snisla’s meteoric rise in blind football
The breakout star of the Moroccan blind football team talks training, Tokyo 2020 and his plans for Paris as we count down to the next Paralympic Games.
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New Delhi 2024: Steady shooting and stamina propel Reinaldo to top
Spaniard signs off on high even as China finish on top and Turkey's Civek secures quota on final day of season's first World Cup
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IPC mourns the death of Argentinean Paralympic trailblazer Héctor "Pocho" Ramírez
Professor Héctor "Pocho" Ramírez helped found the Argentina Paralympic Committee (COPAR) in October 2003
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Paris 2024: Introduction to blind football
All you need to know about the sport, which has featured at the Paralympics since 2004
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New Delhi 2024: Ukraine’s Shchetnik overcomes Delhi belly to clinch gold
Ukraine clinch first gold medal; quota spots for Australia, Cuba, Greece and Neutral Para Athlete Oksana on penultimate day of World Cup
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Paris 2024: Peru’s Pilar Jauregui Cancino targets first Paralympic medal
Pilar Jauregui aims for her first Paralympic medal at Paris 2024