Road to Tokyo

Amputee athlete Katie Holloway fought doggedly to raise Paralympic athletes' medal bonuses to the same level as Olympic athletes. Here's...

Amputee athlete Femita Ayanbeku surprised everyone, including herself, by making the 2016 Paralympic team. For the 2020 Paralympics, no one...

Who's the youngest amputee athlete on the US Paralympic team? Who's got the most medals? How many are first-time Paralympians?...

Kari Miller-Ortiz can describe both the athleticism and the artistry of sitting volleyball. As a commentator on NBC's Paralympic broadcast...

We combed US athletes' Instagram feeds to get a sense of their highs and lows in the wake of the...

Deborah Jackson relied on the adaptive sports community as her son Desmond progressed toward the Paralympics. That community, she says,...

Amputee athlete Trenten Merrill thinks athletes and fans would benefit from a joint national meet that brings Olympians and Paralympians...

The Tokyo Paralympics are part of a larger, more important story: the normalization of limb difference and the changing cultural...

Paralympic athletes are used to making adaptions, and the pandemic was no different. Some even used the down time to...

These six amputee athletes have a lot at stake during this week’s US Paralympic Trials. They're not well known yet—but...

Iraq War veteran and three-time Paralympian Melissa Stockwell sees a lot of overlap between the duty to promote American values...

Amputee athlete Desmond Jackson is blazing trails and advancing the cause of cultural inclusion for amputees, people with disabilities, and...

In an exclusive interview, NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel discusses the trends driving the network's beefed-up coverage of the Tokyo...

As a weightlifter, Jake Schrom can't attract the same sponsorship dollars that swimmers and sprinters can. He pays a big...

Not many Paralympic sprinters have also starred in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. That’s the remarkable journey of Katy Sullivan, a...

Wheelchair basketball player Brian Bell is focused on winning another gold medal in Tokyo. But outside the arena, he feels...

Some of Nichole Millage's sitting volleyball teammates were still in grade school when she won her first Paralympic medal. Here's...

Paralympic athlete Ezra Frech believes passionately that adaptive sports can empower all people with disabilities and help everyone—even non-athletes—feel like...

Melissa Stockwell was part of the first wave of US Paralympians to demonstrate the marketing potential of adaptive athletes. Here's...

The NCAA's nonsensical eligibility guidelines left Paralympic medal contender Hunter Woodhall with only one logical choice: turn pro.

Although he had the misfortune to lose his right leg in a childhood accident, Brian Bell had the good luck...

Amputee volleyball player Nichole Millage already has a Paralympic gold and two silvers. So why is she putting herself through...

Melissa Stockwell was supposed to be six months into retirement from athletics by now, focused on family and business and...

When COVID put the Paralympics on hold, amputee athlete Hunter Woodhall didn’t need long to figure out how to rechannel...

The US Olympic and Paralympic Museum was originally supposed to open back in May, about a month before the Olympic...

Congrats to the team of paratriathletes who kicked off National Triathlon Week by cycling across Colorado’s deserts, peaks and plains...

SFC Allan Armstrong resumed running just six months after he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2013. He...

When we spoke to Lacey Henderson back on March 19, the Paralympics were still supposedly going to be held on...

Hunter Woodhall is one of the biggest stars and most recognizable faces on the US Paralympics team. We’ll be talking...