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7-time Paralympian Bywater excited by wheelchair basketball growth
British wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater is competing in his seventh Paralympic Games, and is excited to see the game growing

Japan’s wheelchair rugby team gets fairytale ending
Japan won gold in the wheelchair rugby tournament after beating the USA 48-41 at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Paris 2024: 'Rocket man' Gabriel Araujo completes his hat-trick of golds
A fans' favourite at La Defense Arena, Brazilian swimmer wins men's 200m freestyle S2 and achieves goal of improving his two victories at Tokyo 2020; Simone Barlaam beats 50m freestyle S9 world record and leads another successful evening for Italy in the pool

Top medal highlights from Day 5
Brazil's Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Araujo completed his mission of winning three Para swimming golds at one Games

Paris 2024: Yang Chao sets new Games record on way to first P3 gold
Chinese athlete takes his third Paralympic Games gold and first at Paris 2024 as Yan Xiao Gong gives USA their second-ever Games medal in shooting Para sport

From a Ukrainian orphanage to the Paralympic stage
Meet Oksana Kozyna and Oleksandr Chyrkov - two Para badminton players who have shared a remarkable journey to the Paris 2024 Games and owe it all to the teacher cheering them on in the stands

Rising Phoenix rapper meets ' his inspiration' Matt Stutzman
Emmy Award-winner George Doman spoke with Paris 2024 archery champion Matt Stutzman, who inspired Doman's lyrics for the title track of Paralympic Netflix documentary 'Rising Phoenix'

France goes wild for Hanquinquant’s gold
Hosts celebrate double Para triathlon glory with Alexis Hanquinquant and Jules Ribstein bagging Paralympic titles

Paris 2024: Rattana dethrones Ktila as new Paralympic champion
Thailand's Chaiwat Rattana shocks Tunisian legend Walid Ktila for first Paralympic gold in men's 100 T34, new world records for Ethiopia's Yayesh Gate Tesfaw in women’s 1500m T11 and Brazil's Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes in women's shot put F53 even as Gloria Zarza Guadarrama win Mexico's first ever gold medal in Paris 2024 at Stade de France

Paris 2024 Paralympics: Shooting Para sport day five preview
The ones to watch on the fifth day of competition at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre with the men's R7 and women's R8 finals

Para triathlete Lauren Parker ‘is unbreakable’
Australian Lauren Parker netted gold in the Para triathlon and is aiming for a hat trick

Paris 2024: Guity wins battle of blade runners at Stade de France
Costa Rica's Sherman Isidro Guity wins men’s 100m T64 finals with Paralympic Games record while USA's Ezra Frech pulls off a surprise in the men’s 100m T63. India's Sumit Antil defends men's javelin throw F64 gold with two Paralympic records at Stade de France

Can Italy's wheelchair fencing star Bebe Vio make it a hat trick?
After winning wheelchair fencing gold in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, Italy's Bebe Vio comes into Paris hoping for three in a row

Big moments on Day 5
First African nation medal in badminton - Olympic or Paralympic Games - goes to Nigeria's Mariam Eniola Bolaji

Historic venue for Para equestrian at Versailles
Chiara Zenati hopes to medal for France hopes in Paris 'homecoming'

Wheelchair tennis ace Oda: “Paris is a special place for me”
Japan’s teenage wheelchair tennis player Tokito Oda took up the sport after watching Shingo Kunieda play. Now he wants to play for the kids

Para triathletes gear up for glory on Day 5
Day 5 promises to serve up excitement in Para triathlon and plenty of intensity on the wheelchair rugby court

Smith: “Boccia gods were playing with me” in shock defeat
Three-time Paralympic boccia champion David Smith missed out on a medal in the men’s individual BC1 tournament at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal highlights from Day 4
Para archer Jason Tabansky was a late call-up but made the most of it, winning gold

Paris 2024: Fortune wins first Paralympic gold in style on Sunday
British thrower improves her own shot put F20 world record to give her country the second Sunday gold, alongside Hannah Cockroft's fourth consecutive 100m T34 title; refugee Para athlete Guillaume Atangana makes history with bronze medal in a romantic evening session that ended with a marriage proposal