PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS
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Tokyo 2020: Mingyuan Yang dreams with glory
Chinese goalball player feels confident towards this year’s Paralympics
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Tokyo 2020: Alison Levine looks to make history
Hopes to become first female to beat the men in Boccia BC4
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Dreams turn to reality for African fighters
Six athletes secure tickets to Tokyo 2020 at continental qualifier
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Tokyo 2020 unveils kinetic sport pictograms – a Games first
There are a total of 23 pictograms covering 22 Paralympic sports and 50 covering 33 Olympic sports.
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Classification in Para Athletics
No other sport in the Paralympic Games has so many different classes.
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Europa Cup Speed Finals in Italy cancelled
Para alpine skiing competition in Sella Nevea was scheduled to take place 2-5 March
Hosts Great Britain own the stage in Manchester
Ukraine and Mexico also put some fine performances at second World Cup of the season
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Six months to go, Tsuchida targeting home Paralympics
With exactly six months to go until Tokyo 2020, one of Japan's sporting greats hopes to star at her seventh Paralympics
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USA squeak out victory
USA beat Canada on penalty shootout at Women’s Showcase Series
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‘Wassai’ chosen as title of Tokyo 2020 NIPPON Festival
‘Participation, Interaction and Dialogue’ programme aims to embody the concepts of traditional Japanese festivals.