The Paralympic champion said an airline staff member once asked her if she had "ever tried to walk".

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ROME — Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist whose career was marked by two life-altering accidents, has died. He was 59. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Without furhter ado, here are 19 facts about the Paralympic games that everyone should know: 1. The Paralympics began in 1948. Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, head of the Stoke-Mandeville Hospital’s Spinal ...

Los Angeles prepares to host its first Paralympic Games with historic firsts including competition beginning earlier than ...

At least 200 sport administrators participated in the International Paralympic Committee's Local Leaders training courses ...

In a step that reflects Qatar s ambition to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2036, Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari has been ...

Australian Paralympic gold medallist Paige Greco has died aged 28, leaving her family with a pain to “carry forever”. Greco, ...

For the first time, Canada's winter Paralympians have been compensated equally to their Olympic counterparts for reaching the medal podium. Thirty medallists from the Milano-Cortina Games in March ...