As a promising 21-year-old county badminton player, Lucy Shuker’s world was torn apart when she was paralysed after a motorcycle accident. She was left a paraplegic and told she would never be strong ...

Among the Team USA athletes who won medals today at the Paris Paralympics: Hunter Woodhall, whose wife Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold at the Olympics, and Ali Truwit, who lost part of her leg in a shark ...

Paris is back in the spotlight this evening as the city hosts the opening ceremony of the Paralympics Games. Fresh off the heels of a blockbuster fortnight of Olympic action, the Paralympic athletes ...

The Paralympics that start Wednesday in Paris feature more than 4,000 athletes from 160 countries, in competitions such as blind soccer, para swimming, sitting volleyball and wheelchair basketball.

Mallory Weggemann from the U.S. celebrates after winning the women's 200m individual medley swimming competition at the 2024 Paralympics on Aug. 31 in Paris, France. CATHY WURZER: Eagan, Minnesota ...

PARIS — It has been quite a trip to the Paralympics for USA para badminton duo Jayci Simon and Miles Krajewski. The duo was delayed leaving Atlanta due to mechanical issues, generating a travel ...

Paralympic swimmer Anastasia “Tas” Pagonis, a Garden City resident whose family owns and operates Manhasset’s Louie’s, finished in fourth the S11 400-meter freestyle Friday at the games in Paris. Tas ...

Jessica Long is bringing home another gold medal. The paralympic swimmer, 32, placed first in the 400m freestyle S8 on Wednesday, September 4 — the same event in which she won gold 20 years earlier in ...

Lancaster's Adam Page has returned home to Western New York with another Paralympics sled hockey goal medal. Page, 26, and Team USA recently won its third consecutive gold medal with a 2-1 overtime ...

When told by the stadium announcer that they were witnessing history, the Paris spectators roared and applauded. Not that the woman making history actually noticed: Sarah Adam was far too occupied — ...

Over the next week and a half, about 4,400 athletes will compete in nearly 200 events during the Paralympic Games that begin tonight in Paris. MARTÍNEZ: NPR's Becky Sullivan will be following it all.