PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Para athletes to watch
Here are some of the Para athletics athletes to keep an eye on as they focus on the target at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

Tokyo 2020: Mingyuan Yang dreams with glory
Chinese goalball player feels confident towards this year’s Paralympics

Tokyo 2020: Alison Levine looks to make history
Hopes to become first female to beat the men in Boccia BC4

Dreams turn to reality for African fighters
Six athletes secure tickets to Tokyo 2020 at continental qualifier

Tokyo 2020 unveils kinetic sport pictograms – a Games first
There are a total of 23 pictograms covering 22 Paralympic sports and 50 covering 33 Olympic sports.

Classification in Para Athletics
No other sport in the Paralympic Games has so many different classes.

Europa Cup Speed Finals in Italy cancelled
Para alpine skiing competition in Sella Nevea was scheduled to take place 2-5 March
Hosts Great Britain own the stage in Manchester
Ukraine and Mexico also put some fine performances at second World Cup of the season

Six months to go, Tsuchida targeting home Paralympics
With exactly six months to go until Tokyo 2020, one of Japan's sporting greats hopes to star at her seventh Paralympics

USA squeak out victory
USA beat Canada on penalty shootout at Women’s Showcase Series