PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Marie Bochet

Alpine skiers Marie Bochet and Vincent Gauthier-Manuel are expected to headline France’s Sochi 2014 team.

Training at the IPCAS Snowboard World Cup Finals La Molina, Spain

The Netherlands’s Bibian Mentel-Spee continued her stunning form on Tuesday (11 February) in La Molina, Spain, by claiming victory at the IPCAS Snowboard World Cup Finals to maintain her 100 per cent record for the season.

A picture of a man in a sledge skiing

With only one athlete winning all 10 Paralympic Winter Games medals to date, the Netherlands will hope to diversify at Sochi.

A picture of people posing for a group photo

Fifteen years after joining the Paralympic Movement, NPC Cape Verde now has an office to call home.

Dylan Alcott celebrates winning his quad wheelchair tennis singles match against Great Britain's Andy Lapthorne at the 2014 Australian Open.

The Melbourne native has swapped wheelchair basketball for wheelchair tennis, and is now the No. 10 quads player in the world.

Natalia Partyka - London 2012

Winner to be announced on 8 March in Sochi after record number of nominations.

Boccia - Dirceu Jose Pinto and Eliseu Dos Santos

With seven months to go until the 2014 BISFed Boccia World Championships, take a look at the athletes to beat.

Nijaz Memic

Known for their sitting volleyball players, Bosnia and Herzogovina will compete at their second Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi.

Vadim Selyukin

Can the host nation’s sledge hockey team medal at Sochi 2014 in their Paralympic debut?

Fearnley beats Hug to 2013 London marathon title

David Weir and Tatyana McFadden will return to the Virgin Money London Marathon in 2014