PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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IPC President meets Tokyo Governor for boccia match
Sir Philip Craven and IPC colleagues joined forces to play Tokyo Governor Koike and other representatives of Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
![Japan's Prime Minister Abe chats with IPC President Sir Philip Craven and IPC CEO Xavier Gonzalez during a meeting in February 2017.](/sites/default/files/images/170223021858918_Prime%2BMinister%2BAbe.jpg)
IPC President praises Japan’s adoption of universal design
Sir Philip Craven met with Prime Minister Abe on Wednesday in Tokyo as the two discussed preparations for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
![Manuela Schaer of Switzerland competes in the 800 meter - T54 Round 1 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170223084945909_Manuela%2BSchaer.jpg)
Schaer aims to put rollercoaster year behind her in Tokyo
The Swiss T54 wheelchair racer lines-up in Sunday’s marathon in the host city of the next Paralympic Games.
![British Olympic track and field athlete Roald Bradstock](/sites/default/files/images/170223091916279_Roald%2BIPC.jpg)
Paralympic values promoted through art
‘Art of the Olympians’ is a platform where Olympians and Paralympians can show their creative side, express themselves and document their involvement in the arts.
![Paralympian Emma Foy, silver and bronze medallist at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.](/sites/default/files/images/170223093641182_emma%2Bfoy%2Bgetty.jpg)
Paralympian Emma Foy takes time out
The Rio 2016 cycling medallists is taking time off to focus on a law degree and other areas in her life.
![Carla Qualtrough was appointed Canada's Minister for Sport and Persons with Disabilities in November 2015.](/sites/default/files/images/151104180811549_Carla.jpg)
Canadian Paralympic Hall of Famers named
Carla Qualtrough and Karolina Wisniewska are among the five to be inducted into the class of 2017
![Follmann played sitting volleyball with Leite and watched the swimming and athletics national teams practice in the Brazilian Paralympic Centre.](/sites/default/files/images/170223095906872_Follmann.jpg)
Chapecoense goalkeeper visits Brazilian Paralympic Centre
Jakson Follmann was one of only six survivors of the tragic plane crash that killed 71 people, and tried Para sport for the first time.
![Italy v Germany at the Buffalo 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool](/sites/default/files/images/150427010842272_web%2B20150426_ITA%2Bv%2BDEU_0633_0.jpg)
Five things to know about the Torino international
Para ice hockey players from Canada, Italy, Norway and South Korea will all take to the ice in a round-robin tournament from 27 February.
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Throwback Thursday: Mexico’s Cristina Hoffman
The table tennis player, who won silver at Atlanta 1996, received the ‘National Sports Award’ from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in recognition of her career.
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NPC Serbia receives highest medal
The country’s President delivered the medal to recently re-elected NPC President Zoran Micovic.