PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Summer Sports

Huge demand for tickets leads to IPC ticket agent securing more tickets for sale.

5,000 volunteers are needed as dancers, actors, percussionists and all-around performers

New list of prohibited substances for athletes went into effect on 1 January 2012

Alpine Skiing

Team USA barely took the edge over Canada on the slopes at Waterville Valley Resort.

Alpine Skiing

Anna Schaffelhuber has helped keep Germany atop the medals table in Sestriere, Italy

Wheelchair Basketball

The defending Paralympic champions hosted a tryout camp in Birmingham, Alabama.

Summer Sports

BT, Lloyds TSB and Sainsbury's all on the look out for inspirational London 2012 Torchbearers.

Sailing

Paul Tingley dominated the first day of racing in Charlotte Harbor, Florida in the USA.

Alpine Skiing

Russia's unbeaten Valery Redkozubov aims to keep top spot in Slalom Visually Impaired competition.

Important appointment as Koreans prepare for London 2012 and hosting Winter Paralympics in 2018.

Canada

Grants of up to CDN $5,000 given to a number of national and local organizations and clubs.

Alpine Skiing

The IPC Alpine Skiing race will draw more than 60 competitors from seven nations.

Summer Sports

To mark park handover British government led by Prime Minister David Cameron meet at Olympic Park.

Sailing

More than 100 sailors on 75 boats from 20 countries will take part in Florida.

Sochi 2014

New Zealand's king of the mountains talks about his surge to the top.

Sochi 2014

At just 21, Alexander Alyabyev is aiming to win a medal for his home crowd at Sochi 2014.

Zimbabwe

Speaking exclusively to The Paralympian, the IPC's official magazine, at the IPC Regional Training Camp in Zambia, Oripa Mubika, the Vice President of NPC Zimbabwe, talked about developing the Paralympic Movement in Zimbabwe.

Alpine Skiing

Wheelchair Fencing

Polish wheelchair fencer Dariusz Pender saw Frenchman Romain Noble in an all-European epee category A final.

Sochi 2014