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Q&A with US snowboarders
Catch up with reigning Worlds medallists and veterans as they prepare for Landgraaf
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 47 – Largest IWRF Americas Championship held in Paraguay
Host team makes first appearance at an international wheelchair rugby competition
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Swiss Paralympic and Allianz extend partnership through to 2020
Agreement to help fund athletes trainings in the lead-up to Tokyo 2020
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 48 – Development of female Para sport
Camps in Para ice hockey and wheelchair basketball held this year
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Costa Rica win Blind Football Central American Championships
Regional champions qualify for 2018 World Champs in Madrid, Spain
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World’s best snowboarders set for Landgraaf
Vos and Bunschoten to star on home snow
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Rome 2017: Five things we learned
The key stories from the Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
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Narita shows speed at Europa Cup
The Japanese snowboarder wins race and shows he can shake things up at the World Cup
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Duane Kale enters Attitude Hall of Fame
IPC Vice President named in New Zealand broadcaster’s 2017 class
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UN General Assembly approves Olympic Truce for PyeongChang 2018
Truce will cover both Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year
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Rome 2017: Ukraine’s women seal team gold
Top seeds saw off Italy to take sabre world title on final day of Wheelchair Fencing World Championships
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NPC Croatia wins top prize for social inclusion project
‘Wholehearted coaches’ scheme recognised as best in Europe by Allianz
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 49 - Australia's women make goalball history
Team wins country’s first gold medal at World Youth Championships
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Tatyana McFadden named Americas ‘Athlete of the Month’
US wheelchair racer wins an astonishing seventh consecutive Chicago Marathon
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Russia celebrate double gold at sitting volleyball Euros
Ukraine have to settle for silver in both men’s and women’s competitions
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Chris Vos ‘pretty stoked’ to start season
Dutch teenager to get first taste of competitive action in Landgraaf
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Top 50 Moments of 2017: No. 50 - Home advantage powers Uzbekistan to judo glory
Hosts win eight of 12 events at Asian-Oceanian Championships
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Rome 2017: Italy win two team titles
Wheelchair fencers Beatrice Vio and Edoardo Giordan inspire double gold for the host nation.
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Rome 2017: Italy and Hong Kong teams triumph
Emanuele Lambertini and Yu Chui Yee come through for their respective teams
Jeroen Kampschreur dazzles at alpine skiing season opener
Teenage sensation wins on home snow at first Europa Cup in Landgraaf