Australia finishes with lowest medal ranking in 36 years after ‘funding neglect’
Paralympics Australia chef de mission Kate McLoughlin said the medal table didn’t tell the story of the many achievements, but she had long been warning that years of neglected government funding would result in a worse ranking.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Murky dam to silver lining: Woolies ad swimmer scoops medal after ‘rough couple of days’
Col Pearse, who shot to fame when his story was told in a Woolworths ad, is the first to admit it had been a tough few days, but he has now bounced back to seize silver in the last swimming session of the Paralympics.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Why Australia have fallen behind on the Paralympics medal table
With two full days of competition to go, Australia had 16 gold medals and sat behind nations such as the Netherlands, Brazil and Ukraine on the official table.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Burrito boy to sweet revenge: 10 best moments of the Paris Paralympics
Australian athletes have brought home plenty of medals, and they’ve also brought us tears, awe and laughter.
- by Tom Decent and Sophie Aubrey
The ‘Bench Queen’ almost died twice this winter. Now she’s bouncing back
Hani Watson is calling two recent anaphylactic episodes “the attempted assassination of the queen”. But they have rattled her.
- by Sophie Aubrey
No cheers, no chants: The football game plunging Paris into silence
Blind French captain Frederic Villeroux scored. Unable to see the magic he’d just achieved, it was only when the crowd erupted that he knew: he’d found the net.
- by Sophie Aubrey
Taylor felt rejected by the music industry, now she’s facing a different fight in Paris
The 26-year-old has 4 per cent vision, and she said her dreams of working in music were shattered when she was made to feel unwelcome because of her disability. She found the complete opposite in judo.
- by Sophie Aubrey
How motherhood propelled Vanessa Low to win her third gold medal
The long jumper defended her Paralympic title by smashing her own world record on her first jump in Paris, two years after having her first baby.
- by Sophie Aubrey
‘I will never be forgotten’: Larrikin Aussie archer turns Paris giant-killer
With green and gold hair, an eagle’s feather in his hat and an exuberant personality, Taymon Kenton-Smith stole the show at archery’s historic Paralympics venue.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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Meg was dizzy and in a ball after her race. She didn’t know she’d won a medal
It was a glittering result for Team Australia in an un-glittering setting, with organisers abandoning the Olympics’ picturesque cycling course for one in a satellite town.
- by Sophie Aubrey
‘I can’t help it if I am this way’: The trans sprinter dragged into Paralympics gender war
No Paralympic athlete has faced as much international scrutiny at the Paris Games as the 51-year-old vision-impaired sprinter.
- by Sophie Aubrey
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