PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

View on slopes in the sunshine

A stellar line-up of athletes will begin their World Cup campaign, with action from Tarvisio, Italy, to be shown live on Rai Sport and at Paralympic.org.

Picture of four people cutting a red ribbon to open a new building.

The new building will be home to 30 of the 85 IPC staff members

Woman in rowing boat celebrating

The athletes to look out for in the sport at September’s Paralympic Games include four from the single sculls, one mixed double sculls and one coxed four team.

View of the construction site of the Carioca Arena 1,2 and 3

Carioca Arena 1, home of wheelchair basketball and rugby during this summer’s Paralympic Games is the largest in Barra Olympic Park and will host first test event this week.

Roman Rabl of Austria competes at the Sochi 2014 Winter Paralympic Games.

Austrian Roman Rabl is hoping to build on his first podium performances from the 2015 World Championships with World Cup success.

Stanislav Chokhlaev, Damien Seguin, Joachim Gerard, Tyler McGregor and Bethany Firth

The public has until 21 January to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

George Kingston

With the support of the Agitos Foundation, IPC Ice Sledge Hockey and the Slovakian National Paralympic Committee will run the camp to train young athletes.

Finland's Petri Posio and Erkki Miinala block the ball during their gold-medal match at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. After winning Paralympic gold, the Finnish squad will now host the 2014 World Championships.

With a new year and the Rio 2016 Games approaching, here are some of the big goalball questions.

Georg Kreiter of Germany competes in Men's Downhill Sitting at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games

The German double world champion sit skier looks towards the future ahead of the first World Cup of the season.

Laurentia Tan

The athletes to look out for at September’s Paralympic Games include five riders and six goalball players.