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Jessica Stretton feels at home in a fantasy world. With several fiction books on the go at the same time, the fantasy world is familiar domain for the Para archer from Great Britain. Unlike most fantasy book readers, however, Stretton’s real life also borders on the...

In Mexico City, a new type of therapy for special needs children is being employed in one of the capital's neighborhoods – horse therapy. Equitherapy – to give it its scientific name – employs horses to physically and mentally rehabilitate children with a range of...

“Sport is the best school of life. Nothing will work without discipline, fighting spirit, stamina or competition.” Sandra Graf’s parents taught her to live by that mantra from a young age, and the words hold such value to her that they feature front and centre on her...

With just three kilometres left to go in his debut marathon in Melbourne, Australian Michael Roeger stopped. Cramp was searing through his hamstring. His body may have been willing him to stop, but in his mind, Roeger knew he could do it. After 39 kilometres there was...

The roles were flipped for staff of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) who took part in Sunday's Deutsche Post Marathon Bonn. At the German city’s most popular event, 19 employees became the athletes. They shut down their computers, turned off their work...

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...