Tag: Paralympics

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If this week's historic merger between Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA) and Adaptive Sports USA (ASUSA) caught you by surprise, you’re ...

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

“Amputees don’t focus on what they don’t have,” says Patrick Quinn. “They work with what they do have, and they ...

Our latest conversation with Hunter Woodhall comes on the eve of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships.

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

A quarter-century is an impressive run for any fundraiser, but Adaptive Spirit merits an extra tip of the cap: It ...

Disability rights blogger, podcaster, whirlwind, and social media phenom Lacey Henderson seems to be everywhere these days. At 30, she’s ...

The Agitos Foundation has launched a call for nominations for the I’mPOSSIBLE Award, which will be presented at the Tokyo ...

Before hitting the track to compete in an officially sanctioned race, some elite Paralympic sprinters must do something most runners ...

Throughout 2020, Amplitude will be providing ongoing coverage of U.S. amputees competing for slots on the U.S. Paralympic Team. Check ...

By Élan Young Images courtesy of Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis. Watch anyof the videos on Hunter Woodhall and Tara ...

Watch anyof the videos on Hunter Woodhall and Tara Davis’ YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/channel/UCIK0rlPzvgI0tCwuHrtO82w) and you’ll feel the energy between this ...

Although life in the fast lane can be a lot of fun, it can also be hazardous.

Although life in the fast lane can be a lot of fun, it can also be hazardous.

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