Paralympics

Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022 open amid storm of controversy over athlete ban

The sound and light show spectacular capped off a week of high drama and wrangling among officials on the sidelines.

Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022: As war rages, Games opening in Beijing without Russia

The 2022 Winter Paralympics open Friday in Beijing, with the Russian athletes sent home and the Ukrainian team escaping a war zone to get here.

Beijing Winter Paralympics 2022: Games to open in storm of controversy over Ukraine invasion

An eleventh-hour reversal to ban Russian athletes has marred the lead-up to Friday's opening of the Beijing Winter Paralympics.

Paralympics medallist Sharad Kumar worried about his coach in Ukraine

Kumar had trained in Kharkiv under Nikitin Yevhen for more than four years before winning a high jump bronze in Tokyo Paralympics last year

Beijing seals off its Winter Olympic 'bubble' as it prepares for strictest sporting event since pandemic

China, where the virus emerged toward the end of 2019, has pursued a zero-tolerance strategy on COVID-19 and is taking the same approach to limit the pandemic's potential impact on the February 4-20 Winter Olympics and subsequent Paralympics.

Tokyo Paralympics champion Pramod Bhagat nominated for Para Badminton Player of Year

The 33-year-old Bhagat, who had contracted polio when he was four years old, picked up the sport after watching his neighbours play

Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Pramod Bhagat expects India to double its tally at Paris Paralympics

India had returned with its best-ever performance from the Tokyo Paralympics, winning 19 medals — five gold, eight silver, six bronze. The country's previous best tally at one edition of the Paralympic Games was four.

'People now recognise me': Tokyo gold medallist Sumit Antil on new-found fame

There were many discoveries made in the difficult year that was 2020 by Sumit Antil but one most important breakthrough was finding the right prosthetic leg that changed his life.

Tokyo Olympics 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto says official costs of Games will be known early next year

Although the official cost for Tokyo 2020 has been listed as $15.4 billion, several government audits have shown costs may be much higher. Olympic costs are notoriously difficult to track, but no matter the actual cost, most of it is public money.

Paralympics bronze medal winner Sharad Kumar diagnosed with heart inflammation

The-29-year-old Patna-born athlete, who stays in Chhatarpur, was discharged from the medical facility earlier this week but had to come back for some more tests.