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The Winter Paralympic Games 2022, held in Beijing, China, are scheduled to take place from March 4 to 13.
- Norwegian Jesper Pedersen won 4 golds and a silver in alpine skiing at the Games last year, while China’s athletes won 61 and topped the medal table
- Pedersen says there were no Chinese competitors involved in this season’s World Cup circuit, and fears the country’s athletes will go backwards
Double Tokyo Paralympics medallist Leung keeps up fine form in Riffa, winning gold in BC4 individual event, and silver in mixed pairs with partner Vivian Lau Wai-yan.
Hosts finish with 18 golds and 61 medals in all, just four years after winning their first gold in wheelchair curling.
Chinese companies are seeking to capitalise on Eileen Gu’s freestyle skiing exploits at the Winter Olympics. As many as 346 million people have taken to the slopes and skating rinks, surpassing President Xi’s target.
Defending champion China bagged the wheelchair curling gold at the Beijing 2022 Paralympics Winter Games on Saturday after defeating Sweden 8-3 at the National Aquatics Centre.
Liu Mengtao and Zhang Mengqiu continue to dominate on day 7 of Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics, hauling in more gold medals for China.
Ukraine delegation calls for peace at Beijing 2022 Winter Games, as gold medallist Grygorii Vovchkynskyi expresses disbelief over Russia ‘bombing our children and women’.
Zheng Peng and Yang Hongqiong win respective men’s and women’s sprint sitting events at Beijing 2022 to take China to 10 gold medals in overall tally.
Weather compared to Norway in July as temperatures nudge a balmy 17 Celsius degrees (63 degrees Fahrenheit), with warm weather catching skiers off guard.
Anastasiia Laletina withdraws from biathlon middle distance event after hearing her father had been captured by invading soldiers.
‘The whole world knows what’s going on in Ukraine, and now I know I have a mission here,’ gold medallist Iryna Bui says after huge day at Beijing Winter Paralympics.
It was an all-China four-person final as the hosts cleaned up the medals in the men’s snowboard cross upper limb impaired on Monday.
The International Paralympic Committee is demanding answers from China’s state broadcaster after an impassioned, anti-war speech by its head appeared to have been censored during Friday’s opening ceremony.
Chinese skier Zhang Mengqiu wrote history on Sunday by clinching China’s first alpine skiing gold, as host nation take a record six gold medals at the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Winter Games.
Liu Zixu switched from Para archery to clinch China’s second-ever Winter Paralympics gold, as 100m sprinter turned silver medallist Alpine skier Zhu Daqing says ‘I think I can overcome any difficulties now’.
‘The 21st century is a time for dialogue and diplomacy – not war and hate,’ says International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons.
Covid-19 restrictions and a growing war in Ukraine have cast a shadow over the Paralympics, but athletes now have their chance to compete, and organisers are hoping the success of the Winter Games flows into the Paralympics.
Adopted by an Alaskan in Guangzhou, the 22-year-old Team USA cross-country skier is ready to impress in her second Winter Games.
Advances in 5G mobile communications, China’s digital currency and cloud infrastructure services help anchor Beijing’s latest Olympic hosting duties.
Guo Yujie and Wang Zhidong have been named as flag bearers for China’s biggest ever Paralympic delegation ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games.
U-turn comes less than 24 hours after officials said athletes would be allowed to compete, but under IPC flag.
Adjustments at Yanqing Paralympic Village include modifications for wheelchair users and the introduction of Braille menus.
International Paralympic Committee says athletes from both countries must compete under Paralympic flag in Beijing, and will not be included in medal table.
A record 96 Chinese athletes will look to mirror the success of the hosts’ Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics delegation.
Like the Winter Games before it, much of this year’s focus will shift to the rising stars looking to leave their mark on Paralympic history.
US Olympic chiefs throw support behind IOC calls for country’s athletes to be barred from international competition, including the Games which start on Monday.
International Paralympic Committee says country’s 20 participants have yet to arrive for Games which open on Friday.
Some of them will be going for even more gold at next month’s Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics.