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![Cato Zahl Pedersen](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Pedersen%203.jpeg)
Amazing adventures of Norway legend Pedersen
From Antarctica to Everest, seven-time Paralympian has always liked a challenge
![2022 Toyota Big Game Commercial: Brothers Extended Cut | Start Your Impossible](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/4Zw8hbWKlF-61sxYTht4PoUJQ6EKoj5xI3xxo0SiC-U.jpg?itok=1ekpmRtK)
Paralympic champion Brian McKeever featured in Toyota's emotional Super Bowl ad
The Canadian vision impaired skier is the most decorated male cross-country Paralympian in history
![A Para ice hockey player celebrates a game win](/sites/default/files/images/170418125247210_Andrea%2BMacri%2BItaly.jpg)
Wine-lover Andrea Macri hopes 2022 is vintage year for Para Ice Hockey
Italy defender on a mission to raise awareness of his sport at Beijing 2022 ahead of Milano-Cortina 2026
![The image of a hand of person manipulating samples in a laboratory](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Pixabay%20Lab.png)
Tunisian athlete Yassine Gharbi suspended three years for anti-doping rule violation
Tunisian Para athletics athlete returned an adverse analytical finding in an Out-of-Competition test on December 2020
![⭐ Ones to Watch - Para ice hockey 🏒 | Beijing 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/g47i2ebY1L_lNc_D0G1iHVP4qkL43rQptwgxgQV11LM.jpg?itok=fgZttX9q)
Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Ice Hockey
Eight teams will go for glory at the Beijing National Stadium from 5-13 March
![A man on a snowboard jumping into the air with his arms raised on a sunny day in the snow.](/sites/default/files/2022-02/rsz_51854433705_f3bf529b92_o.jpg)
Big White ready for Crystal Globe decider
Canadian ski resort hosts the last Para snowboard World Cup of the season with two snowboard cross events on 11 and 12 February
![Man with right arm impairment hits a return shot in table tennis](/sites/default/files/2019-09/DE-LA-BOURDONNAYE-Gilles.jpg)
Paralympic champion Bourdonnaye appointed as Paris 2024 Table Tennis Sport Manager
Bourdonnaye is one of the most successful table tennis players ever with three Paralympic golds and three World titles
![A table with a man and a woman signing a paper with two men in wheelchairs and three men standing behind them](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Al%20Ain%20.jpg)
Al Ain gets ready for the World Championships
UAE to host around 300 athletes from more than 50 nations in the first edition to take place in the Middle East from 3 to 17 November
![A man with two ski's and one stick in his right hand goes downhill on the snow circuit](/sites/default/files/2022-02/rsz_151821614907_da31f98134_o.jpg)
Lillehammer strike inspires Lekomtsev for Beijing
RPC Nordic skier only athlete across all sports to leave Para Snow Sports Worlds with a perfect record of winning every event in his class
![🤓 We Know You Didn't Know - Para ice hockey 🏒 | Beijing 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/whj2LKaQ7x1gWCzE9vjj92v23JxkbahH0qFHONGYhj8.jpg?itok=vQHwlkq1)
Sport Week: 10 things to know about Para Ice Hockey
Para ice hockey will make its eighth Paralympic appearance at Beijing 2022
![Zebastian Modin, guided by Emil Joensson, swept all cross-country races at the 2018/19 World Cup in Ostersund](/sites/default/files/images/190121130213505_Nordic-Skiing-Ostersund.jpg)
Zebastian Modin embraces big challenges as he plans for fourth Winter Paralympics
Swedish Nordic skier describes health and guide issues as a ‘few bumps in the road’
![poleth shows ecuador flag](/sites/default/files/2021-08/GettyImages-1337071545low.jpg)
IDB and IPC launch initiative to further develop Para sports in the Americas
NPC Colombia to mentor Guatemala, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago
![⭐ Ones to Watch - Para cross-country skiing ⛷ | Beijing 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/AMQrVPdtXtV5LxmbanzyboAHm2tGmQ7YAwGPn9XWXJ0.jpg?itok=F24vXQcM)
Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Cross-Country skiing
Champions and hopefuls - here are the Para Cross-Country skiers to keep an eye on
![A woman smiling and showing her gold medal](/sites/default/files/2022-01/GettyImages-1365367556.jpg)
P&G awards grants to Paralympian-supported charities through Athletes for Good fund
Athletes’ charities to receive share of USD 400,000 thanks to joint initiative by IPC, P&G and IOC
![Channel 4's all-star disabled presenting team for the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Channel-4-Beijing-2022.jpg)
Channel 4 announces 100 per cent disabled presenting team for Winter Paralympics
'The IPC has been working on the Paralympic Games with Channel 4 since 2012 and at every Games they have improved the broadcast landscape on Para sports'
![🤓 We Know You Didn't Know - Para cross-country skiing ⛷ | Paralympic Games](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/JZND1VUI1fSODqJBEb0895oEAMXdAVNU0ctzZFO4Li4.jpg?itok=kKA__JDg)
Sport Week: 10 things to know about Para Cross-Country Skiing
Get to know more about one of the two winter Para sports that have been part of the Paralympic programme since the first edition in 1976
![Norway's nordic skier Ragnhild Myklebust at the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympic Winter Games](/sites/default/files/images/140218101938415_getty.jpg)
The extraordinary story of record-breaker Ragnhild Myklebust
‘The competition was the most interesting thing, not the medals’
![female Para Nordic skier Kendall Gretsch](/sites/default/files/images/190212131506462_Kendall-Gretsch.jpg)
Paralympic champion Kendall Gretsch braced for test of body and mind at Beijing 2022
‘Physically the transition is something I’m familiar with but mentally it is a little bit tougher’
![Jessica-Jane Applegate](/sites/default/files/2022-02/Jessica%20Applegate%20.jpg)
Jessica Applegate reveals how she swam over obstacles
'Ignore what anyone has to say. If you believe that you can, you can do it'
![⭐ Ones to Watch - Para biathlon 🔫 | Beijing 2022](/sites/default/files/styles/video_crop_16_9/public/oembed_thumbnails/kSeeB8oEXCZZWxthH_6-OBy1oyTX-yzfeB9fxLuL8jk.jpg?itok=zjFn3jzJ)
Sport Week: Ones to watch for Para Biathlon
Several PyeongChang 2018 returning champions will battle it out to get on the podium once again