PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Tendulkar-fan Rakesh Kumar yearns to win medal and meet legend
'Whatever success I have achieved so far is for the country and my parents, so whatever rewards I get are for them. Meeting Tendulkar is the only reward I want for myself.'
India look to take giant strides at Tokyo 2020
Mariyappan Thangavelu will lead the country’s biggest contingent till date
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Great Britain's Gordon Reid has momentum on his side ahead of Tokyo 2020
Wheelchair tennis player has beaten Shingo Kunieda, Alfie Hewett, Gustavo Fernandez and Joachim Gerard, the world’s top four players, this year
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Season look back: Top six alpine skiing moments
Breakout performances, one family’s dominance and a freeski triumph among highlights of a memorable season
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Home Games entice tennis legend Kunieda for another tilt at glory
Japan’s wheelchair ace has achieved everything in his stellar career but Tokyo 2020 offers chance to elevate his sport
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Sport Week: Ones to watch for wheelchair tennis
The world's best will fight for the coveted six gold medals up for grabs
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B-Pool Worlds to return to Ostersund
Top three finishers will advance to Paralympic Qualification Tournament with top two finishers also promoted to the A-Pool World Championships
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Sport Week: 10 things to know about wheelchair tennis
The only rule change in wheelchair tennis is that two bounces of the ball are allowed
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Braunschweig brothers share Olympic and Paralympic swimming dreams
Ole is the first in the water competing at the Tokyo Olympics followed by Malte who will make his Paralympic Games debut in Japan
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Philippines Para athletes draw inspiration from Hidilyn Diaz’s historic Olympic gold
I will not make any excuses not to perform well in the Games, regardless the difficult times: Para athlete Jerold Mangliwan