The Paris Olympic Games was heralded as the first gender-equal games, and for the first time in its history there was an equal number of medals for men and women, but the Paralympics is still a way ...

Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo, who became the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Paralympic Games, will not race for a medal in the women’s T12 400-meter sprint after a third ...

Italian transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo failed to reach the final of the women’s T12 400 meters for visually impaired runners after finishing third in her semifinal at the Paralympic Games on ...

(CNN) — Valentina Petrillo became the first out transgender runner to take part in the Paralympics when she competed in the women’s 400m T12 heats on Monday. Italy’s Petrillo made it through to the ...

Their journey's end was at the Town Hall -- which was emblazoned with a banner 'Olympic Heroes'. A rainbow appears in the sky as members of the British Olympic and Paralympic teams take part in their ...