Tag: Paralympics

Snowboarder and Paralympian Amy Purdy nearly had her Hollywood breakthrough in Kingsman. Losing the role ultimately cleared the path to ...

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

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

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

Here are the most compelling storylines to emerge from the 2024 Paris Paralympics involving America's amputee athletes, along with some ...

How's your favorite American amputee athlete faring at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris? Here's our running tally of Team USA's ...

The United States will send 225 athletes to the 2024 Paralympics, including more than 70 competitors with limb loss. It’s ...

Some of the most dramatic Paralympic competitions will involve amputee athletes like Hunter Woodhall, Ezra Frech, and Jessica Long. We’ve ...

Competing on a wooden prosthesis more than 50 years before the Paralympics were born, this American amputee went up against ...

Femita Ayanbeku gave birth to her first baby in January. Next month in Paris, the amputee track star will attempt ...

Melissa Stockwell always thought the Tokyo Paralympics would be her last competitive triathlon. But instead of relaxing in retirement, she'll ...

The US Paralympic Track and Field Trials begin tomorrow in Miramar, Florida. Dozens of amputee athletes will be vying for ...

Few of us can afford to fly to Paris and cheer on America’s Parlaympians in person. But there are plenty ...

Team USA will send roughly 250 athletes to the 2024 Paralympics, including about 100 amputees. Here’s a sport-by-sport guide to ...

Team USA’s amputee athletes manage the same limb-care issues you do, fight the same healthcare battles, deal with the same ...

As he prepares to compete for a third Paralympic gold in wheelchair basketball, Trevon Jenifer is already looking beyond the ...

The US Paralympic Swimming Trials begin June 27, and Para Track and Field Trials follow a few weeks later. Here ...

Whenever a medal contender misses the Paralympics for some reason, it’s a tough pill to swallow. The wait for redemption ...

Ever since Oscar Pistorius began racing nondisabled sprinters, sports scientists have been debating whether running blades give amputee athletes an ...

Ezra Frech, Hunter Woodhall, and Noelle Lambert were among the amputee athletes who stood out at this weekend's US Paralympic ...

The daily grind of training made 2023 a frustrating year for Paralympic track star Beatriz Hatz. But the amputee athlete ...

Team USA’s delegation in Paris later this summer will include a handful of amputees who’ve savored Paralympic competition before, but ...

When Angelina Martinson met a Paralympian face to face, she discovered how much her life as an ordinary amputee overlapped ...

Move United, the nation’s largest network of adaptive-sports organizations, will offer 35 sanctioned events in 24 states during 2024, the ...

Team USA will bring a strong group of first-time Paralympians to the 2024 Paris Games. The athletes below all appear ...

Lakeshore’s new Sports Science and High Performance Lab has started compiling detailed information about adaptive sports at every skill level, ...

The Parapan American Games have routinely served as a springboard to future Paralympic glory. Meet the amputee athletes who positioned ...

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 ...

World championships for track and field, swimming, cycling, and archery are complete, setting the stage for next year's Paralympic Games. ...

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, ...

After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the nation’s premier stand-up amputee basketball tournament—the Cactus Classic—returns this spring.

Symbolically, Brenna Huckaby has already scaled a ton of peaks in 2022. So why is this the year she decided ...

Purdy graced the cover of Amplitude’s inaugural edition and has routinely appeared in our coverage. Here are our favorite articles ...

Former Paralympian and amputee athlete Lacey Henderson explains how the growth of the Paralympics is having a negative impact on ...

The US Winter Paralympic Team combines veteran stars and new talent. Here’s a quick guide to American amputee athletes who’ll ...

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

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

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

Last week we sifted some tea leaves in an effort to gauge the size of NBC's television audience for the ...

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

When we spoke with Gary Zenkel, the president of NBC Olympics, back in May, he told us he didn't have ...

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

Team USA's smartphones were out in force during Tuesday night's Opening Ceremonies. For a peek at how things looked from ...

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 ...