PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

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

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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

Michal Vapenka

At age 40, the ice sledge hockey player is eager to prove he still has what it takes to win his first Paralympic medal at Sochi 2014.

La Molina snowboard World Cup Finals

IPCAS Snowboard World Cup Finals head to La Molina, Spain, and will feature around 40 riders vying for position ahead of Sochi 2014.