Tag: Paralympics

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The July 2021 issue of Amplitude, the nation's top amputee lifestyle magazine, features articles on the Paralympics, prosthetist Francois Van ...

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

World-renowned prosthetist Francois Van Der Watt has been helping amputee athletes achieve maximum speed since the Flex-Foot Cheetah was a ...

American media and corporate partners are making a concerted effort to raise the Paralympics’ visibility in the United States to ...

American media and corporate partners are making a concerted effort to raise the Paralympics’ visibility in the United States to ...

World-renowned prosthetist Francois Van Der Watt has been helping amputee athletes achieve maximum speed since the Flex-Foot Cheetah was a ...

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

The July 2021 issue of Amplitude, the nation's top amputee lifestyle magazine, features articles on the Paralympics, prosthetist Francois Van ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Meet five world-class amputee athletes who will be contending for medals in Tokyo this summer at the 2020 Paralympic Games.

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

Originally published February 10, 2021. One of the most discussed Super Bowl commercials from this past weekend was Toyota's ad ...

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 ...

Meet five amputee athletes who hope not only to make their Paralympic debuts in Tokyo later this year, but to ...

For a while, it looked like the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics might not happen at all. A couple of months ...

Cheryl Collins, director of diversity, equity and inclusion When Adaptive Sports USA and Disabled Sports USA merged earlier this year ...

By Larry Borowsky Many US Paralympians thought they’d never see the day when their achievements got the same recognition as ...

As you might have read in Amplitude's current issue, 2019 marked an all-time high for movies featuring lead characters who ...

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

In tough times like these, we can seek comfort in the words of our favorite cardigan-wearing children’s TV program host, ...

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

Below-knee amputee Nichole Millage has won a gold medal and two silvers in her three previous trips to the Paralympics. ...

Despite the virtual format for the 2020 Endeavor Games, the jitters Anthony Quinn felt before he ran his race were ...