PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

PyeongChang 2018 Sport Week: Introduction to cross-country skiing
Athletes compete in short, middle and long distance, and team relay events
Bochet and Bauchet to star on home snow
The French alpine skiers could continue their outstanding seasons at the Tignes World Cup

Plowing through piles of snow
IPC photographer Luc Percival takes a ride in a “snowcat” to see how a course is prepared

Second Para Central American Games set to kick off
Nicaraguan capital city of Managua to receive up to 250 athletes from six countries

Behind the scenes in Tignes
Preparing for the season’s penultimate World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup

Daviet and Lysova win in Oberried
Benjamin Daviet and Mikhalina Lysova grab the only gold medals they were missing in this season’s World Cup

PyeongChang 2018 Sport Week: Classification in biathlon
Biathletes are separated into standing, sitting and vision impaired categories for competition

Batenkova-Bauman takes dramatic win in Oberried
The Ukrainian took women’s standing middle distance gold by slim margins at second World Cup

Who should be Americas Athlete of 2017?
Vote now on Americasparalympic.org to decide who last year´s best athlete in the Americas was

WADA welcomes Whereabouts decision
The European Court of Human Rights rejects legal challenge to the implementation of Whereabouts rules.