Tokyo 2020 Paralympic organisers on Saturday (August 21) announced several national Paralympic Committees had withdrawn from the Games, while one more positive COVID-19 case was detected amongst Paralympic athletes already residing in Japan.

Several more countries withdraw from Paralympics, new COVID-19 case among athletes

The Tokyo Paralympics will be held under "very difficult" circumstances, organisers said on Friday, with hospitals in the host city overstretched as Japan battles its worse wave of COVID-19 infections, driven by the Delta variant.

Paralympics: Organisers say situation 'very difficult' as hospitals stretched by COVID-19 cases

Paddlers Bhavina Patel and Sonal Patel will begin India`s charge in the upcoming Tokyo Paralympics on August 25. A total of 54 para-athletes from across nine sports disciplines will be featuring in the showpiece event.

Paddlers Bhavina, Sonal Patel to begin India's charge in Paralympics on Aug 25

The first batch of Indian para-athletes arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday for the Tokyo Paralympics which gets underway from August 24. 54 para-athletes from across 9 sports disciplines will be featuring in the showpiece event.

First batch of Indian athletes arrive in Tokyo for Paralympics

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday urged people to refrain from travelling as COVID-19 cases spiked to new records in Tokyo and nationwide, heaping pressure on the medical system.

Japan PM Suga urges travel curbs as COVID-19 cases surge before Paralympics

The 16th summer paralympic games are scheduled to be held in Tokyo from the 24th of August to the 5th of September. Ishrat Akhter, an international wheelchair basketball player from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, represented the country the Asia-Oceania wheelchair basketball championship in Thailand - a Tokyo 2020 Paralympics qualifier. Our correspondent Johan Castell met her a while ago. this is her inspiring story.

Kashmir Connect: Wheels of courage

The head of Japan's Paralympic Committee said on Sunday (May 16) that calls to cancel the Summer Games were "very unfortunate", as Tokyo organizers held a ceremony to mark 100-days-to-go before the opening of the Paralympic Games.

Japan Paralympics chief says calls to cancel Games are 'very unfortunate'

International Olympics Committee's president Thomas Bach held a press conference following an Executive Board meeting amid uncertainty surrounding whether the Tokyo Olympic Games will go ahead later this year.

'Vaccination not a silver bullet': IOC chief Thomas Bach urges athletes to not jump queue

Japan has said that reports of Tokyo Olympics being cancelled is untrue. But experts say the games can only be conducted safely if Japan vaccinates its entire population. Japan is home to 127 people, and the country is yet to start its vaccination program. Palki Sharma Upadhyay has the details

Gravitas: Will Tokyo Olympics be cancelled?

Despite the growing COVID-19 & rising number of infections, Japan will be hosting the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics & the Paralympics in 2021. WION brings you a report.

Japan: Olympics, Paralympics on track despite surge in infections

Indian Paralympic athletes Niranjan Mukundan and Devendra Jhajharia optimised Twitter’s latest test feature, voice Tweets, to share how they are turning the tables on COVID-19 limitations that have brought sports to a halt and disrupted their regular training sessions.

Paralympians share their lockdown-induced practice routines using the new voice Tweets feature

Whirling, spinning, reaching and flexing - Japanese wheelchair dancer Kenta Kambara's emotive performances are wordless testimony to artistic passion and possibility.

Paralympic wheelchair dancer aims to perform at Tokyo Olympic games

Paralympics boss Andrew Parsons expressed disgust on Tuesday that Russian authorities had let down the country's clean athletes, after the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia for four years from major events, including the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Paralympics chief 'disgusted' with Russia for letting down nation's clean athletes

Tokyo 2020 unveils robots to help wheelchair users and workers

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has branded Israel a "criminal state", hitting back at a decision to strip Malaysia of the right to host a major swimming event for refusing to let Israelis participate.

Malaysia PM defiant after losing swim event over Israel stance

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Sunday stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 world para swimming championships after the country banned Israeli athletes from participating.

Paralympics: Malaysia stripped of swim worlds after Israeli ban

Two South Korean freestyle skiers who competed at last month's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have been banned for life for allegedly assaulting female teammates

Two South Korean skiers banned for life for sexual abuse

South and North Korea will not march together amid flag row as they cannot agree on a united flag that erases islands disputed with Japan

Winter Paralympics: Two Koreas won't march together at opening ceremony

The 2018 Winter Paralympics is scheduled to take place in Pyeongchang County, South Korea from 9 to 18 March 2018

Google celebrates 2018 Winter Paralympics kick off

Seoul and Washington had agreed to postpone the regular joint military exercise until after the Winter Olympics and Paralympics being hosted in South Korea, which ends on March 18

South Korea to announce joint military drill plan with US before April

Eligible Para athletes from Russia will be allowed to compete in alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, snowboard and wheelchair curling

Russia suspended from Paralympics, some athletes exempt

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday increased Oscar Pistorius' murder sentence to 13 years and five months after the state argued that his original sentence of six years was "shockingly lenient".

South African appeals court more than doubles Oscar Pistorius murder sentence

The silver-medalist at the 2016 Paralympic Games opens up about the challenges and stereotypes that the differently-abled encounter.

Deepa Malik: Defying the odds and reshaping perceptions

Ibrahim Hamadtou, who hails from Egypt, is an inspiration for all

#BeTheChange: He plays table tennis with his mouth and foot

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