MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS, Yevgeny Ionov/. With less than two days remaining before the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games kick off, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) guarantees that hosts Rio ...

Latin America’s first Paralympics will be remembered as the peoples’ Games where the people of Rio turned out in their droves to support athletes of all countries. Rio 2016 arguably did more for the ...

In the second day of competition on Guanabara Bay, the athletes were postponed ashore until 1400 local, before the Sonar and SKUD-18 classes were able to complete a race, while the 2.4mR contest was ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (CNN) – A poignant and defiant Rio 2016 Paralympics closing ceremony celebrated Brazil, the strength of the human spirit and diversity while stylishly handing the baton over for Tokyo ...

It's been an unprecedented run for Brazil, now in the final days of its third mega-event moment. The 2014 World Cup is fading from memory, the August 2016 Olympics crowned a success, and the ...

The Paralympic flag is waved by Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes, right, following the hand over by Sir Philip Craven, centre, watched by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson during the closing ...

There was Aussie elation at the Marina da Gloria on day five as the Rio 2016 Paralympic gold medals were wrapped up in the Two Person (SKUD18) and Three Person Keelboat (Sonar) with a day to spare.

WOUNDED soldier Curtis McGrath has gone from the Afghanistan battlefield to Paralympic Games glory, winning gold in his KL2 para-canoe event. There is no fist-pumping, no slapping the water, no ...

The deal will also see the network cover the London 2017 Para Athletics World Championships. It comes just days after the final whistle from this year's event in Rio during which Channel 4 broadcast ...

September 12 - The Paralympic Flag has arrived in Rio de Janeiro after the city's Mayor Eduardo Paes collected at the Closing Ceremony of London 2012 on Sunday (September 9). It arrived as part of a ...