Para Sport

The Swiss Federal Court has refused to issue a preliminary injunction that would have allowed Russian athletes to compete at the Rio Paralympic Games.

Rome’s Mayor Virginia Raggi has maintained her stance in not backing the capital’s bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games, stating it would be better to focus on “abandoned municipal installations” rather than the effort to land the sporting showpiece.

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) has said its ban from the summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro also incorporates the next edition of the winter Paralympics in 2018, as Russian officials made their latest appeal against the blanket ban imposed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Rio 2016 Organising Committee have formally lent their backing to a campaign dedicated to raising attendance at the forthcoming summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has confirmed that the Brazilian city would be willing to step in to aid any deficit recorded by the local organising committee for the staging of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko have slammed today’s (Tuesday’s) decision to maintain the country’s blanket ban from the forthcoming summer Paralympic Games as politically motivated, with the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) set to take its case to the Swiss Supreme Court.

Russia will be forced to miss the upcoming summer Paralympic Games after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today (Tuesday) upheld the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) decision to ban the nation’s athletes from the event.

State-run entities such as Petrobras will reportedly step in to aid the cash crisis facing Rio de Janeiro’s summer Paralympic Games, while organisers have conceded that only 12 per cent of tickets have been sold for next month’s event.

Mayor of Rio Eduardo Paes has pledged that the costs of hosting the upcoming 2016 summer Paralympic Games will be covered amid reports that Brazil could pull out of hosting the event.

Russia will find out next Monday if it has been successful in appealing against its ban from this year’s summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The participation of some countries at the 2016 summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has been placed in doubt after it emerged that the Rio 2016 organising committee is yet to deliver support grants to National Paralympic Committees (NPCs).

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said it has closed an investigation into 16 potential cases of intentional misrepresentation in swimming, and a host of other sports, after determining there is insufficient evidence to take any cases forward.

The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) decision to impose a blanket ban on Russian athletes for its upcoming 2016 summer Games in Rio de Janeiro will “unfairly punish” clean athletes, according to Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).

The Australian state of Queensland has said it will enter a bid to host the 2018 Invictus Games as part of its major events drive.

Russian Paralympic Committee president Vladimir Lukin has suggested that the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) decision to block Russian athletes from competing at the Rio 2016 summer Paralympic Games was “politically motivated” as he vowed to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Tokyo 2020 has stated that costs are increasing steeply for its preparations for the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.