PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Paris 2024: How to secure your tickets for the Paralympics
More than 1.75 million tickets have been sold for the Paris 2024 Paralympics, which open on 28 August. Tickets for the event start from EUR 15.

Paralympic powerhouses USA aim to extend legacy
The LA 2028 hosts are embracing the opportunity to grow Para sport further ahead of their home Games

Ambitious Colombia expand their horizons
The first of our National Paralympic Committee previews highlights a South American nation on the rise

Chris Skelley: “Everyone in my sport is my idol”
“It takes a lot of braveness to step on the mat and fight another person with a vision impairment,” says British Para judo champion Christopher Skelley

Paris 2024 Paralympics: Shooting Para sport day three preview
The ones to watch in the third day of competition at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre with the mixed R3 and mixed R5 finals

IPC and YouTube team-up to ensure Paris 2024 are the most accessible Paralympics yet
Content will be available for free for users across 175 markets and territories around the world

IPC launches new “Medication Check” webpage
The Global DRO platform allows users to check whether their medication contains a substance on WADA’s Prohibited List

Gonzalez, 'Blind football's Falcao', aims to lead debutants Colombia to podium
Jhon Gonzalez, known in Colombia as 'Blind football's Falcao', is ready to lead Paralympic debutants Colombia to the Paris 2024 podium

Rising Phoenix: Road to Tokyo series to air on Paralympics YouTube
Three-part series from the makers of Netflix hit Rising Phoenix follows athletes as they face the challenges of COVID-19

Yui Kamiji: Every moment at a Paralympic Games is special
Ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Japanese wheelchair tennis star Yui Kamiji reflects on her three Games experience

Raoua Tlili on shining the torch for Tunisia
Tunisia’s six-time Paralympic champion Raoua Tlili wants to share a special message to women in her country when she competes in her fifth Games

Fast and furious - why Ammar Ali loves the thrill of wheelchair fencing
Ammar Ali is a wheelchair fencer who won a silver medal in the men's epee category B at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games and is Iraq’s first wheelchair fencing Paralympic medallist. He will compete at Paris 2024, his fourth Paralympic Games

Refugee Paralympic Team gathers for training camp ahead of Paris 2024 Paralympics
• Reims, France is hosting the camp with the support of the French Ministry of Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games and Paris 2024

Ivan Mikulic's Para taekwondo journey
The Croatian Para taekwondo athlete says, “My biggest wish is to stand on that podium in Paris 2024, not on the left or right but in the centre.”

Rachel Choong ready for Paralympic debut
Great Britain’s Rachel Choong was commentating about Para badminton’s Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020. Three years later, she will compete at Paris 2024

Paris 2024 venue guide: All you need to know about La Defense Arena
Sixty days after hosting a Taylor Swift concert the Paris 2024 venue was ready for the Olympic and Paralympic swimming races. A total of 141 Para swimming medal events will take place at the Paris La Defense Arena from 29 August to 7 September

Paris 2024: Find out who is competing at this year's Paralympics
Thirteen gold medals will be up for grabs from 30 August to 5 September at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre marking the 13th time the sport is part of the Paralympic Games programme

For Para powerlifter Perez, sport is a door to “many, many dreams”
Mexico's four-time Paralympic champion Amalia Perez is ready to compete at Paris 2024, her seventh Games

How Para canoeist Scott Martlew made Paralympic history
Scott Martlew made history at Rio 2016 as the first Para canoeist to represent New Zealand at a Paralympic Games. He goes to Paris 2024 hoping to make it on the podium in the men’s KL2 class