Tag: adaptive sports

“We support our Paralympic athletes by showing up,” Alexandra Capellini writes in this week’s guest post. “We normalize different body ...

Elayna Alexandra avoided sports growing up, especially those that involved a ball. But now, as an amputee, she has found ...

Former football player Derek Loccident had to learn the value of patience after becoming an amputee. The lesson paid off ...

Paralympic veteran Scout Bassett wasn’t interested in writing a tragedy-to-triumph amputee memoir. Her new book, Lucky Girl, offers practical advice ...

The new Sports Science and High Performance Lab will gather advanced data to help adaptive athletes optimize performance at every ...

It took years for amputee stunt performers to get a fair shake in the movie-making industry. Now the opportunities are ...

Can’t wait a whole year to scratch your Paralympics itch? No worries: The rest of this summer’s calendar is packed ...

The 9th annual Angel City Games go down this week. It's one of the largest events on the nation's adaptive-sports ...

The nation's top amputee athletes will go head-to-head at this week’s Paralympic Track & Field National Championships in Chula Vista, ...

Here are some accessible winter sports that can help all amputees—even non-medal contenders—stay active until the spring thaw. 

Above-knee amputee Lasse Madsen couldn't find a running blade that was priced for recreational athletes like him—so he designed one ...

Amputees of all ages, from casual riders to elite athletes, are discovering handcycling’s potential to bring more freedom and mobility ...

You’ll find sessions on workplace inclusion, universal design, advocacy, ableism, building your amputee network, and a whole lot more.

Caitlin Conner spent years working on a speed skate for lower-limb amputees. Now she's moving on to an even bigger ...

A number of impressive newcomers have earned their berths on Team USA. Here are the first-time Winter Paralympians we're most ...

A childhood cancer survivor and above-knee amputee, Thomas Walsh is an all-around ski talent who can vie for the podium ...

The Winter Paralympics are approaching, and the World Para Snow Sports Championships provided a sneak preview of Team USA's top ...

We called Richard Ramsay to learn about the amputee mannequins in Nike’s retail stores. As it turned out, Ramsay had ...

by Andrew Gray @drew.bionic Over the years, my family tree has had a few branches that pruned themselves. When I ...

In 2021, amputee athlete Lacey Henderson got hit by an emotional storm typhoon. Buffeted by pride, anger, guilt, self-doubt, and ...

Among prosthetists, Paul Leimkuehler is well remembered as a trail-blazing practitioner who helped establish the standards of the profession. But ...

Cosi Belloso, a specialist in amputee physical therapy, created her "Strong Body" videos to help amputees stick to a healthy, ...

Amputee hockey star Kevin Herbert is staging a comeback to spark renewed interest in stand-up hockey for amputees.

by Jennifer Johnson We dive not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." - Anonymous An instructor at Mount Madonna Institute once told me, ...

When all the gyms shut down way back in COVID’s initial quarantine phase, Move United (then known as Disabled Sports ...

If the Paralympic athletes sponsored by Össur and Ottobock were regarded as independent nations, both teams would have ranked among ...

Hardly anyone remembers the name of the first person who ever played college football in NCAA Division I on a ...

We've been fans of Aristotle Domingo's AmpuTO podcast since he launched it last year. So we were thrilled to land ...

Now that the Paralympics have gotten the sort of coverage they always deserved, does anybody still doubt whether these events ...

Team USA's final medal Paralympic medal count ended up at 104, with 37 golds. Both figures rank as the second-highest ...

Through 1992, the Winter and Summer Olympic/Paralympics were always held in the same calendar year. It was only in 1994 ...

Amputees and other people with disabilities will play football this fall as the nine-team USA Wheelchair Football League makes its ...

While Jessica Long was winning gold in the 200m individual medley (SM8) the other day—her fourth consecutive Paralympic gold in ...

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? ...

Not every amputee is lucky enough to have a devoted workout buddy or personal trainer. So how do you stay ...

Think you’re too out of shape to get active as an amputee? You might think again after viewing our photos ...

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

The Paralympics have evolved from a modest archery exhibition involving 16 British soldiers into the world's third-largest sporting event.

The Paralympics have evolved from a modest archery exhibition involving 16 British soldiers into the world's third-largest sporting event.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

From mountains to sea, intrepid amputees are getting active everywhere. Taking up an outdoor activity during summer can be a ...

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