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Logo of the Americas Paralympic Committee

At Toronto 2015 athletes will be invited to vote for one athlete to sit on the Americas Paralympic Committee Executive Committee

Screenshot Paralympic Twitter

Andrea Bundon, a Research Associate at the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport at Loughborough University (UK), gives advice on how para-athletes can use social media.

Six months to go until the 2015 Parapan American Games

To mark six months to go until the 2015 Parapan American Games, here are six athletes to keep an eye out for when the action begins in August.

Channel 4 presenters

Britain’s award winning Paralympic broadcasters aims to recruit 24 trainees with the potential to work on the next Paralympic Games

An artist's impression of how the Tokyo 2020 national stadium will look

The IPC Governing Board will meet this week to decide which of the eight remaining para-sports should be included in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics

Runner and guide run in a full stadium

Students with an impairment attending an ECAC member university or college will get the opportunity to take part in leagues and championships.

A yellow mascots and blue mascot with green leaves as hair stand on top of Rio's Sugar Loaf mountain.

To mark the last day of the year, here are 25 fun, serious and interesting things we learned around the Paralympic Movement in 2014.

No. 13 – IPC’s sponsorship success

IPC signs new partnership with Panasonic and extends its partnership with Samsung

Skiing man curving around some slalom poles

High Performance Sport New Zealand pledge extra funds in the build up to Rio 2016

Portrait picture of a women in Team USA uniform in front of a landscape

Team USA’s Elizabeth Broad, Senior Sports Dietician, details the benefits of vitamin D for an athlete

Tokyo 2020 react to the news that they have won the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Host city of the 2024 Games to be selected in the summer of 2017

A spectacular view of with Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Joint IPC and ITU project is aiming to make future Paralympic Games even more accessible to TV viewers

Paralympian 03/2014 page 10

The focus of the Paralympic Movement’s official magazine this edition is the growth of Paralympic sport in Ukraine and how it currently coping with difficult times.

Some volunteers at the Swansea 2014 IPC Athletics World Championships pose for a photo.

Photographer Luc Percival believes that volunteers are integral to major sporting events and urges you to sign up for Rio 2016.

Upper body of a man, decorated with awards

His Excellency succeeds Sir Phil Holmes at Paralympics New Zealand

Tatyana McFadden

The theme of this year’s United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities is “Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology”

Alessandro Zanardi

A brief glance at the top stories from across the Paralympic Movement between 12-18 October.

Wheelchair racers on the track of a stadium

October 2014 sees the second Asian Para Games taking place, and it also brings the first winter sport competition of the season.

Matthew COWDREY, Australia in the butterfly

The new initiative by the Australian Paralympic Committee and the Australian Institute of Sport aims to find new para-athletes for a host of sports.

A picture of man celebrating his victory with a British Flag

The British Paralympic Association will hold a second Sports Fest from 26-27 April in Sheffield.