Paralympic Games
Spanish Paralympic swimmer to fly home after anxiety attack

Sep. 09, 2021 12:07 PM EDT
MADRID (AP) — A prominent Spanish Paralympic swimmer will be flown home after she was hospitalized in Tokyo because of an anxiety attack, the Spanish...

Tom Davis, shakes hands with Freddie De Los Santos after winning at Men's H4 Time Trial at the Fuji International Speedway at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
From battlefield to Tokyo: Combat vets vie at Paralympics

By Tim Sullivan Sep. 07, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

Dancers perform during the closing ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Paralympic closing marks end of Tokyo's 8-year Olympic saga

By Stephen Wade Sep. 05, 2021 08:31 AM EDT

Diede de Groot of the Netherlands returns to Yui Kamiji of Japan during their Wheelchair tennis women's singles final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
US Open Women Singles

Sep. 03, 2021 12:42 PM EDT

Diede de Groot of the Netherlands celebrates after winning Wheelchair tennis women's singles final against Japan's Yui Kamiji, bottom right, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
US Open Women Singles

Sep. 03, 2021 12:42 PM EDT

Diede de Groot of the Netherlands returns to Yui Kamiji of Japan during their Wheelchair tennis women's singles final at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Dutch on course again in wheelchair tennis at Paralympics

Sep. 03, 2021 05:55 AM EDT

Zakia Khudadadi of Afghanistan stands after fighting against Viktoriia Marchuk Ukraine in the Women's 49kg Taekwondo Repecharge at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Makuhari, Japan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (Joe Toth for OIS via AP)
Afghan athlete Zakia Khudadadi gets her chance in taekwondo

By Stephen Wade Sep. 02, 2021 05:43 AM EDT

Lora Webster with the U.S. women's sitting volleyball team, sets the ball during practice in Edmond, Okla., on July 24, 2021. She's five months pregnant and expecting her fourth child. This is the second Paralympics in which she's been pregnant, and the third time during a competition. She and her American teammates face Brazil on Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in the semifinals as Webster tries for her fifth Paralympic medal. (Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman via AP)
American Lora Webster: 5 months pregnant and after 5th medal

By Stephen Wade Sep. 02, 2021 03:42 AM EDT

Bianbian Sun of China is behind Oksana Masters of the U.S. in the women's H5 road cycling race at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Oyama, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (Thomas Lovelock for OIS via AP)
Oksana Masters picks up 2nd gold medal at Tokyo Paralympics

By Stephen Wade And Pat Graham Sep. 01, 2021 06:08 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, file photo, Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli of Malaysia reacts after competing in the men's shot put F20 final during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games at the National Stadium in Tokyo. Zolkefli appeared to have won gold in the shot put in the F20 class. But after the victory on Tuesday, he was disqualified because he had shown up late for the competition. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Malaysian shot putter disqualified after winning gold medal

By Stephen Wade Sep. 01, 2021 02:29 AM EDT

USA's Sam Grewe competes in the Men's High Jump T63 Athletics Final during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (Simon Bruty for OIS via AP)
High jumper Sam Grewe wins gold, heads to medical school

By Stephen Wade Aug. 31, 2021 10:57 AM EDT

Afghanistan's Hossain Rasouli competes in the men's T47 long jump during the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Afghan Hossain Rasouli gets his chance in the Paralympics

By Stephen Wade Aug. 31, 2021 12:26 AM EDT

FILE - Oksana Masters, of the United States, on her way to a silver medal in the Biathlon Women's 12.5km Sitting event during the 2018 Winter Paralympics at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea, March 16, 2018. Masters credits resiliency, determination and being headstrong for what she is today -- an eight-time Paralympic medalist. Masters persevered through 7 1/2 years in Ukrainian orphanages and with birth defects believed to be the aftermath of Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear accident. That malnourished orphan eventually was adopted by her American mom. She will compete at the Paralympics in Tokyo in road cycling this week. In six months, she also plans to defend her cross-country skiing Paralympic titles in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
Masters cruises to Paralympic gold in hand-cycle time trial

By Pat Graham Aug. 30, 2021 02:18 AM EDT

Britain's Aaron Phipps, right, moves the ball against Joshua Wheeler of the United States during the wheelchair rugby gold medal match at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Britain defeats US 54-49 for gold in wheelchair rugby

By Stephen Wade Aug. 29, 2021 07:16 AM EDT

In this image made from a video, Afghan athletes Zakia Khudadadi, left, and Hossain Rasouli arrive at Haneda airport in Tokyo Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. They have arrived in Tokyo, via what's been described as a harrowing journey from Kabul to Paris, to compete in the Paralympics. (TBS via AP)
Afghans arrive for Paralympics; to be mostly out of sight

By Stephen Wade Aug. 29, 2021 02:50 AM EDT

2 Afghan athletes arrive in Tokyo to compete in Paralympics

By Stephen Wade Aug. 28, 2021 11:07 AM EDT
TOKYO (AP) — Two athletes from Afghanistan have arrived in Tokyo to compete in the Paralympics, the International Paralympic Committee said Saturday. ...

United States' Charles Aoki compete during a semifinal wheelchair rugby match against Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Wheelchair rugby smashes stereotypes at the Paralympics

By Stephen Wade Aug. 28, 2021 08:55 AM EDT

Jessica Long of the U.S. sits on the side of the pool after the Women's 100m Backstroke - S8 Final Swimming, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. (Thomas Lovelock for OIS via AP)
Paralympic coverage airs on NBC for the first time on Sunday

By Joe Reedy Aug. 28, 2021 03:22 AM EDT

PolandÅfsÅf Marcin Polak, left, and his pilot Michal Ladosz pose with their bronze medal during the victory ceremony for the Cycling Track menÅfs B 4000m Individual Pursuit, at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in Izu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Paralympics cycling medalist tests positive for doping

Aug. 27, 2021 06:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2021, file photo, Natalia Partyka of Poland serves against Nozomi Takeuchi of Japan in Class 10, Group A of women's table tennis competition at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. There are 4,403 Paralympic athletes competing in Tokyo, each with unique differences that have to be classified. Lines have to be draw, in the quest for fairness, to group similar impairments, or impairments that yield similar results.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Paralympic Classes: A confusing maze in search of fairness

By Stephen Wade Aug. 27, 2021 04:38 AM EDT