PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Para equestrian: Q&A with Emma Booth
Get to know the Australian grade II rider ahead of Rio 2016.
Training Thursdays: Greece’s Pavlos Mamalos
Aiming for a first Paralympic medal Mamalos shares his training schedule and nutrition.

First athletes arrive at Rio 2016 Paralympic Village
Athletes from Cuba, Canada, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and China happy to move in and eager to start competing.

Monthly preview: September 2016
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, the world’s biggest Para sport competition, will headline this month’s events.

Eight top Para athletics teens at Rio 2016
We pick out eight talented youngsters who could light up the Olympic Stadium at the Paralympic Games.

The IPC not to allow individual Russian athletes to participate at Rio 2016
The decision was taken after more than 175 Russian athletes wrote letters to the IPC asking to compete as neutral athletes.

Rio 2016 preview: Men’s 200m freestyle S14
Iceland’s returning champion Jon Margeir Sverisson will face stiff competition on his way to defend his title.

Great Britain’s Hannah Cockroft targets medal haul at Rio 2016
The 24 year-old is almost a veteran against her teenage rivals at the Paralympic Games.

ICSEMIS set to begin ahead of Rio 2016
The sports science conference gathers sports medicine professionals from around the world, this time on the theme: ‘Saying Yes to Diversity in Sport.’

Rio 2016 invites students to ‘Transforma’ programme
Education initiative, in partnership with state government, will see teenagers receive tickets, transport and food.