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On the heels of severe backlash within the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics Thursday about-faced and expelled Russian and Belarusian athletes from the games, which kick off on Friday. The move will jettison 71 Russian and 12 Belarusian athletes. The action comes less than a day after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said it would permit athletes from the two nations to compete—under the condition that they do so as neutral athletes, sans any national symbols whatsoever after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The war has now come to these games and behind the scen...
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Tokyo (AFP) - David Brown has lost count of how many different guides he has had in his career. But then, sprinting in perfect lockstep with a visually impaired Paralympic champion is not easy. American sprinter Brown, a 100m gold medallist at the 2016 Rio Games, competes in the T11 class, where visually impaired athletes run tethered to a fully sighted guide. Brown, who lost his sight to Kawasaki disease at the age of 13, is competing at the Tokyo Games with Moray Steward, a college sprinter with whom he only recently started working. Brown's preparations for the Tokyo Games were rocked when ...
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Tokyo (AFP) - US swimmer Haven Shepherd lost her legs as a baby after her parents detonated a bomb intended to kill the whole family. This week, at her maiden Paralympics in Tokyo, the upbeat teenager said her goals were all about "just going out and having fun". Shepherd was 14 months old and living in rural Vietnam when her birth parents -- who she has been told were having an affair and could not marry -- decided to take their own lives, as well as the child's. They strapped themselves to a bomb, held Haven and detonated the device, killing themselves instantly and blasting their tiny daugh...
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Tokyo (AFP) - "Armless archer" Matt Stutzman said he would not be giving up on his quest for an elusive Paralympics gold medal after being knocked out in the last 16 for the second Games in a row Tuesday. "I'm not quitting," said the London 2012 silver medallist after losing 143-137 to Slovakia's Marcel Pavlik in the men's individual compound open archery category. "I'm going to be back in Paris (2024) and my ultimate goal is to represent the United States in LA (2028), that will be my last Games," added American Stutzman, who also fell at the same stage in Rio five years ago. The 2015 world c...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Fencing icon Beatrice "Bebe" Vio successfully defended her women's Paralympic gold on Saturday as Afghanistan's two athletes arrived in Tokyo to compete in the Games. Vio, one of the world's best-known Paralympians, was in unstoppable form as she defeated China's Zhou Jingjing 15-9 in the Women's Individual Foil Category B gold medal match, just as she had done in Rio five years ago. The 24-year-old Italian, who had both forearms and legs amputated when she contracted meningitis as an 11-year-old, screamed in joy before bursting into tears in the arms of her coach after the winni...
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Tokyo (AFP) - US wheelchair racing legend Tatyana McFadden said she was "on cloud nine" after winning her 18th Paralympic medal on Saturday, four years after blood clots almost ended her career. McFadden took bronze in the women's T54 5,000m to extend her streak of finishing on the podium in every Paralympic race she has entered since 2008. But she said just competing in Tokyo was a victory in itself, having been diagnosed with a blood-clotting disorder in 2017 that took almost two years to recover from. "I'm on cloud nine," said the 32-year-old, who was born in Russia and raised in an orphana...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Brazil's Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos, dubbed the Usain Bolt of para athletics, took gold in Paralympic record time in Tokyo on Friday, as US "armless archer" Matt Stutzman began his medal campaign. A total of 45 Paralympic golds were up for grabs on Friday, with a range of sports getting started, including archery, athletics and judo, which is being contested at Tokyo's iconic Budokan venue. Sprinter Ferreira dos Santos capped a successful day for his nation in the relative cool of the Tokyo evening by blazing home in 10.53 for a new Paralympic record and gold in the men's T45 1...
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Tokyo (AFP) - "Armless archer" Matt Stutzman is one of the world's most recognisable athletes, but he is sporting a new, slimmer look in Tokyo as he aims to make up for missing out on a Paralympics medal five years ago. The London 2012 men's individual compound archery silver medallist failed to get past the last 16 in Rio, so he decided to get fitter in his quest for Tokyo 2020 gold. Stutzman weighed 103 kilograms (227 pounds) in Rio but has shed 27kg and said he felt the benefit in 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) heat at the Yumenoshima Archery Park during Friday's ranking round of the men's indi...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Athletics got under way at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday with Brazil snagging the first track gold, as elsewhere Australia's wheelchair rugby team battled to keep their gold medal hopes alive. A total of 45 Paralympic golds are up for grabs on Friday, with a range of sports getting started, including archery, athletics and judo, which is being contested at Tokyo's iconic Budokan venue. The track and field events begin with the world's fastest para sprinter ever, Brazilian Petrucio Ferreira dos Santos, gunning for the title of fastest Paralympian in history in the T47 100m. Dos ...
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Tokyo (AFP) - The youngest Paralympian in Tokyo took to the pool on Thursday looking to change attitudes to disability, as more world records were smashed on the second day of competition. In a reminder of the continuing risks posed by the pandemic, organisers said a Games participant had been hospitalised after testing positive for Covid, but insisted the event would remain safe. China's Guo Lingling won the women's -41kg powerlifting, sending the world record tumbling and helping her country join Australia at the top of the medal table with six golds each. "This is the first time I've partic...
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