PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Korea in Ice Sledge Worlds round robin

The IPC announced that Goyang City, Korea will host the next Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in April of 2013.

Australian women's Goalball team

For the first time in more than a decade, Australia will send a Goalball team to the Paralympic Games, led by 23-year-old captain Meica Christensen.

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As Mile Stojkoski continues his journey, his manager Vladimir Pandovski writes about how he was inspired by Hannah Cockcroft and other athletes.

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Though he has never met him in competition, Slovakia’s Robert Mezik thinks he has what it takes to beat Great Britain’s world number one BC2 Boccia player, Nigel Murray.

Grigoris Polychronidis

Greece’s Greg Polychronidis attended the Boccia test event in the Basketball Arena on the Olympic Park in May where he saw first hand how strong the British team had become.

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Norway’s Roger Aandalen says that since he began playing Boccia 26 years ago, the sport has changed dramatically, and for the better.

April Holmes

USA’s champion sprinter April Holmes has always wanted to work for the Secret Service, and she shares how an athletic career has fulfilled that dream.

Boccia at Rio 2016

With Josh Vander Vies’s experience and Marco Dispaltro’s aggressive go-getter attitude, the Canadians hope they’ve found a winning combination in the Boccia BC4 team event.

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He may not be able to speak, but Austin Hanson and his father have developed a non-verbal language they hope will send them to the top of the Boccia podium at the London Paralympics.

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The blue tracks of Torino Stadio di Atletica will draw athletes from Italy and 17 other countries this weekend, who will try to qualify for London 2012.