PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

Three-part series from the makers of Netflix hit Rising Phoenix follows athletes as they face the challenges of COVID-19

Ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Japanese wheelchair tennis star Yui Kamiji reflects on her three Games experience

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

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

• Reims, France is hosting the camp with the support of the French Ministry of Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games and Paris 2024

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.”

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

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

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

Mexico's four-time Paralympic champion Amalia Perez is ready to compete at Paris 2024, her seventh Games

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

Hosting the Paralympic Games has led to the City of Paris investing EUR 125 million into making the historic French capital more accessible

The new approach is envisaged to lead to optimised classification services for athletes with vision impairment

History-making shooter Avani Lekhara was the toast of India at Tokyo 2020 after becoming the first female athlete to win a gold medal for India at a Paralympic Games. Three years later, she shares her hopes and ambitions for Paris 2024

Willi Lemke, the former Special Adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace (2008-2016), passed away aged 77

After two silvers and a bronze, wheelchair rugby star Chuck Aoki is aiming for gold – and memories more valuable than any medal

Leading Paralympians challenge language bias with “I won’t be participating at Paris 2024” campaign

France's Para equestrian athlete Chiara Zenati is dreaming big ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympics.

After Tara Davis-Woodhall won the women’s long jump event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, she immediately ran to her husband and Paralympian Hunter Woodhall to celebrate the special moment together. Get to know more about the couple ahead of the Paralympic Games