Para Sport

Rio de Janeiro’s Deodoro Olympic Park, one of the main sites for the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Brazilian city, has been forced to close, while local football authorities have called for action to prevent further damage at the Maracana stadium after it was targeted by looters.

Poland and the Czech Republic are planning a joint bid for the 2030 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to Polish officials.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has hailed the award of its 2017 Para-cycling Track World Championships to Los Angeles as signifying “notable progress” for the discipline, however the timing of the event has been met with criticism from athletes.

The Pyeongchang Organising Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic winter Games (POCOG) has announced that all Para alpine skiing and snowboard contests will be held at Jeongseon Alpine Centre, in a move that the organisation said will result in significant cost savings.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said the organising committee for the 2016 summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has now paid the travel grants it owed for this year’s event.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said it is “urgently seeking” a resolution to a funding issue related to the 2016 summer Paralympic Games that is impacting on its financial affairs.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Thursday) cleared the three remaining candidate cities for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to progress to the final stage of the bidding process, as president Thomas Bach called for reform of the system to avoid creating too many “losers”.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has warned organisers of the 2018 Paralympic winter Games in Pyeongchang that they must do more to engage people ahead of the event in South Korea.

The German city of Kiel has been selected as the host of the 2017 Para World Sailing Championships, World Sailing has announced.

Tokyo 2020 has laid out the proposed venues for the five new sports on the programme for its summer Olympic Games, as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today (Friday) repeated its mantra that the current proposed budget for the event is not acceptable.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced plans to rebrand and restructure the 10 Para sports it represents as an International Federation.

Toshiro Muto, chief executive of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has today (Wednesday) pledged to keep the total costs of hosting the sporting spectacle below Y2tr (€16.6bn/$17.6bn).

The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has approved the formation of a new body designed to strengthen the ties between its members and the Paralympic Movement.

The Chinese government has said it plans to further develop the country’s winter sports market ahead of Beijing’s 2022 winter Olympic and Paralympic Games by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the next six years.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has accused the International Paralympic Committee of “extortion” after the body told the country to pay for extra drug testing.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today (Monday) outlined the reinstatement criteria the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) must meet in order to have its suspension lifted, as three Russian athletes were among seven stripped of their medals from the 2012 Olympic Games following retests of their doping samples.