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More than 5,800 miles separate Paralympic medallist Misato Michishita’s home town in Japan from the city of London, but the streets of the UK capital have been a regular home-from-home for the 42-year-old vision impaired athlete in recent years. Wins in 2017 and 2018...

Car accidents, illness and a badly infected blister may not sound like the ideal preparation ahead of racing a marathon, but for six-time Paralympic champion David Weir they are obstacles he has merely shrugged off ahead this Sunday’s World Para Athletics Marathon...

Swiss star Manuela Schaer notched up a phenomenal sixth consecutive major marathon victory as she claimed World Championship gold in the women’s marathon T54 in London on Sunday. The 34-year-old – who has won every major race since the Berlin Marathon last September,...

Brazilian sprinter Vinicius Rodrigues has big ambitions. Ever since lying in a hospital bed, after a motorcycle accident in 2014 which resulted in the amputation of his left leg above the knee, winning major titles has been his dream. “That's definitely a picture I...

The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC’s) ‘Transforming Lives Makes Sense for Everyone’ campaign, which showcases the employment legacy of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, has won a prestigious international award. The digital campaign - produced in...

Four months ago, Olympic champion and two-time Stanley Cup champion goaltender Dominik Hasek was announced as an ambassador for the 2019 World Para Ice Hockey Championships in the Czech Republic. “The Dominator,” as they call him, then immediately tried out the sport...

Thousands of elderly people in Britain are left to go blind because of rationing of eye surgery in the National Health Service, a report revealed on Saturday. The Times newspaper said a survey by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCO) found tens of thousands of...

Myanmar held a two-day workshop in the capital Nay Pyi Taw to draft a national strategy for people with disabilities, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement said on Thursday. At the two-day which ended on Wednesday, Deputy Minister of Social Welfare,...