Axed Aussie champ lands on his feet
An Aussie champion that was dropped from the Tokyo Games team has found a new way to make his Paralympic dream come true.
An Aussie champion that was dropped from the Tokyo Games team has found a new way to make his Paralympic dream come true.
Too scared to even sit on her bike the first time she went to a velodrome, Emily Petricola is now one of Australia’s best medal hopes in Tokyo.
Australian swimmers stunned at the Olympics. Now it’s the turn of our Paralympians to turn the waters into a stream of gold in Tokyo. The top races to watch each day and athletes to follow.
Sports fans lamenting the end of the Olympics have plenty to cheer about now because the Paralympics get underway in Tokyo this week.
Our data experts have crunched the numbers with Tokyo set to expect a mind-blowing second Australian gold rush.
Swimmer Ellie Cole is warning everyone. She will be in tears in Tokyo, but don’t worry. She’s been crying for weeks already.
Two of Australia’s most seasoned Paralympians have been named as the flag-bearers for the Tokyo Games, which commence this week.
One will compete at her seventh Games, the other is an Aussie sporting icon – meet Australia’s Tokyo Paralympics flagbearers.
This footballer had already undergone spinal surgery as a teenager so she could play the sport she loved. Then 10 years later, she was being told she “might wake up without a leg.”
Jasmine Greenwood describes it as a weird story – how one day she was happily living her life as a kid when it was turned upside down by what started as a stomach ache.
What’s a tapper? How does someone without arms play table tennis? Why do some athletes wear metal aprons? All the answers here plus more quirky facts ahead of Tokyo Paralympics.
It’s extraordinary Sarah Walsh is still competing in athletics, let alone vying for a medal at the Paralympics in Tokyo, given the pain she had to endure at the start of her career.
He had his arm eaten by a bear at a zoo, thrust into a taxi by shocked tourists, the terrifying attack would set in motion an inspiring journey all the way to representing Australia.
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It starts in two days but not every Aussie athlete has been cleared to compete at the Tokyo Paralympics, with the team holding its breath over the eligibility of two rugby players and two rowers.
She was one of Australia’s most successful Paralympians in 2016 but health complications mean Lakeisha Patterson will compete in just one individual event in Tokyo.
She comes from the same town as Winx jockey Hugh Bowman and has met them both. Now schoolgirl Jamieson Leeson is hoping to put Dunedoo on the map for another reason.
Tough times call for inventive ways to train and this Sydney athlete has hit on a genius – if a little odd – hack to help him prepare for the big heat in Tokyo.
Shaun Norris will captain the Australian Rollers in the men’s basketball competition at the Paralympic Games – his fifth campaign, and one that has come with a whole host of obstacles.
Three-time world champion Susan Seipel has eyes only for gold in Tokyo after the inclusion of her pet event to the Paralympics schedule.
A female Afghan athlete was supposed to create history at the Paralympics. Instead, she remains trapped in Kabul and faces a grim future.
Natalie Smith had two options; sit in her chair and stare at the walls or make the most of her new situation – she is now bound for her third Paralympics.
Afghanistan’s Paralympic team will not participate in the Tokyo Games next week because they are trapped in the country.
When Paralympian Ellie Cole lost her leg due to cancer at the age of three, there were no role models like her. That’s why she’s proud to be a face of this new Woolworths collectible range.
This Paralympian was left “speechless” after being told that her competition briefs were “too short and inappropriate” during an event.
Paralympian Torita Blake was told she was born with her disabilities. But years later she learned the truth – and she wants to share her story with the world to help others.
A 15-year-old is among a new wave of Australian Paralympic swimmers, with the team for Tokyo confirmed after a tough qualification process. See who made it.
Paralympic great Kurt Fearnley hasn’t let his nerves get to him after he inked a new TV gig, which he couldn’t ignore with Seven.
Australian athletes in the Olympics will be able to get COVID-19 jabs before the games, with ‘some’ who may beat vulnerable priority groups.
Role models like three-time Paralympic gold medallist Kurt Fearnley can really get things rolling. Just ask Josh Brass, who has plenty of road to cover to match his idol, but now he has wheels to do it.
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