PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Al Ain to host 2022 World Shooting Para Sport Championships
It will be the first time the competition is staged in the Middle East, in the same venue that has hosted World Cups annually since 2015
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Dubai hosts 2021 season-opening World Para Athletics Grand Prix
More than 470 athletes from 52 countries in action, including world champions making return to stadium where they were crowned in 2019
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Ostrava 2021 World Championships postponed to June
World Para Ice Hockey and LOC to use the extra preparation time to implement comprehensive health and safety protocols due to COVID-19 pandemic
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The women changing ‘narrative of disability’ through sport
Manasi Joshi and Bebe Vio inspire at ‘Global Sports Week’
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Super Bowl ad on Jessica Long draws tears
Emotional commercial shown during highly televised American football championship game tells swimmer's incredible journey
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Super Bowl creates friendly tension at home for David Brown
It is said that all is fair in love and war, but what about football? Paralympic champion David Brown is set to find out
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Parsons: ‘As we say at the IPC, Change Starts With Sport’
IPC President shares Paralympic perspective at sport forum
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‘Mahomes of wheelchair football’ driving the game upwards as Super Bowl looms
Sunday’s Super Bowl LV will be particularly poignant for Matt Bollig, star quarterback of the Kansas City Wheelchair Football team.
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As Super Bowl shines, so do NFL players with disabilities
How American football players Shaquem Griffin and late-Tom Dempsey inspire generations of onlookers
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De Silvestro celebrates career’s first speed victory
World Cup in Saalbach, Austria wraps up with several dramatic upsets