Paralympic Games

Italy's Petrillo to be first transgender athlete at Paralympic Games

Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to participate in the Paralympic Games after the visually impaired sprinter was selected to represent Italy in the women's 200 and 400 metres races in Paris.

Rio Paralympics stages final show in shadow of tragedy

Rio on Sunday closes a Paralympic Games that many feared would be a fiasco but which turned into a triumph, though marred in the final hours by the death of an Iranian cyclist.

Hamburg says no to hosting 2024 Olympics

Residents of the German city of Hamburg have voted against hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

August 13, 2024
August 13, 2024

Italy's Petrillo to be first transgender athlete at Paralympic Games

Valentina Petrillo is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to participate in the Paralympic Games after the visually impaired sprinter was selected to represent Italy in the women's 200 and 400 metres races in Paris.

September 18, 2016
September 18, 2016

Rio Paralympics stages final show in shadow of tragedy

Rio on Sunday closes a Paralympic Games that many feared would be a fiasco but which turned into a triumph, though marred in the final hours by the death of an Iranian cyclist.

November 30, 2015
November 30, 2015

Hamburg says no to hosting 2024 Olympics

Residents of the German city of Hamburg have voted against hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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