Para Sport

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) plans to step up its anti-doping efforts amid further failed drugs test by powerlifters.

Kim Jin-sun has stepped down as president of the organising committee for the 2018 winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Gilbert Felli, executive director of the Olympic Games for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has stated that the smooth running of football’s Fifa World Cup in Brazil has improved confidence over the country’s hosting of the 2016 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.

David Goldstone, a major figure behind the delivery of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been appointed as the new chief executive of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC).

The Tokyo 2020 organising committee has appointed Japanese Olympic hammer thrower Koji Murofushi as its new sports director ahead of the country’s staging of the summer Olympic and Paralympics Games.

The International Paralympic Committee has announced that the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships will be held in Grosseto, Italy.

Two years on from the 2012 London Games, Elisha Chauhan finds out how medal supplier Rio Tinto’s co-operation with Imperial College London is making positive waves for the Paralympic community.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has welcomed the appointment by Rio 2016 of IPC vice-president Andrew Parsons as chair of the Games’ Paralympic Integration Committee and insisted that it is ‘encouraged’ by developments in preparing for the event.

Under-fire organisers of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games have received a welcome boost after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) revealed that National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) are “impressed” by progress made towards staging the Games.

UK Athletics has appointed Sally Bolton as managing director of the organising committee for London’s hosting of the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) World Championships and International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Athletics World Championships in 2017.

The organising committee for the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games recorded a profit of around five billion rubles (€103.2m/$142.3m), according to president and chief executive Dmitry Chernyshenko.

San Diego has submitted its proposal to the US Olympic Committee (USOC) to bid for the 2024 summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stressed that a “constant, concerted and integrated effort” is needed for Rio 2016 to successfully deliver its Olympic Games, following the conclusion of its Coordination Commission’s latest visit to the city.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has opened the bidding processes for the 2017 Swimming World Championships and 2018 Swimming European Championships.

Sochi 2014 has announced that it has raised total revenue of over $95m (€68.8m) from the Paralympic marketing program, marking a new record for the winter edition of the Paralympic Games.

The Sochi 2014 Paralympic winter Games has already set a new record for ticket sales, organisers have announced.