PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Double wins for Loesch, Salcher, Marcoux, Knight
After weather conditions forced a change in the schedule, several athletes made it onto two downhill podiums in one day at the World Cup in Innerkrems, Austria.

New venue in Ukraine to stage second World Cup
Western Center will host the last World Cup before the Finsterau 2017 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships, from 13-20 January.

The IPC opens nominations for 2017 Scientific Award
The winner of the award will give a keynote address at September’s VISTA conference in Toronto, Canada.

Yarovyi candid about season hopes ahead of World Cup
Ukraine’s world champion Maksym Yarovyi also hopes his home World Cup will be the first of many.
Alpine skiing, snowboard athlete representatives nominated
Four alpine skiers and two snowboarders will run to become the Athlete Representative on the Sport Technical Committee.

NPCs of Great Britain and UAE receive awards
The ‘H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Creative Sports Awards’ were held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on 9 January.

A proud moment for Ukraine’s Kononova
The multiple world champion Nordic skier relishes her home World Cup debut and looks to the World Championships.
Ones to watch for 2017 for football 5 and wheelchair tennis announced
Seven football five and 11 wheelchair tennis players have been named as athletes to look out for in 2017.
Three things Mike Minor does off the snow
Find out what the USA’s banked slalom World Cup champion does when he is not competing.

Paralympic Movement mourns the passing of Bob McCullough OAM
McCullough, the former ISMWSF President, received the Paralympic Order in 2002