Reigning Paralympic cross-country sprint champion Andy Soule of the United States has announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 38.
US Paralympics have announced that head coach Eileen Carey has been promoted to director of the county's Nordic skiing programme.
Six-time Paralympic champion Mikhalina Lysova has won her court case against German newspaper Bild for defamation after it called her a "Russian doping abuse athlete".
World champions Ukraine and France claimed the respective 4x2.5 kilometres mixed relay and open relay Paralympic titles on the final day of cross-country skiing action at Pyeongchang 2018.
Andrew Soule claimed a dramatic Paralympic gold medal in the men’s cross-country skiing 1.1 kilometre sprint competition here today.
Brian McKeever became Canada's most decorated Winter Paralympian of all time today after securing his 14th medal with victory in the men’s 20 kilometres visually impaired cross-country event at Pyeongchang 2018.
Ukrainian cross-country skier Maksym Yarovyi won gold in the men’s 15 kilometres sitting race on day two of the Winter Paralympic Games here as Sin Eui Hyun secured hosts South Korea’s first medal of the Games.
United States competitors both the men’s and women’s sprint sitting races on the first day of action of the Winter Paralympic Games here.
France, Japan and Russia were the strongest-performing nations at the 2018 International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) World Alpine and Nordic Skiing Championships in Zakopane, winning the majority of the medals during the four days of competition.
The Suche ski resort near Zakopane is set to host the International Federation for Athletes with Intellectual Impairments (INAS) World Alpine and Nordic Skiing Championships from tomorrow.
Russian double Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko has urged the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to correct an "injustice" by allowing the men's cross-country skiers and biathletes to compete at Pyeongchang 2018 next month.
Neutral athletes from Russia repeated their success from yesterday as they once again took four gold medals in long-distance cross-country races at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuoktatti.
Neutral athletes from Russia claimed all four sprint standing and sitting cross-country titles at the World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup in Vuokatti, as competition resumed in the Finnish village.
Norway's Birgit Skarstein earned her first World Para Nordic Skiing World Cup victory of the season by triumphing at the Finals in Vuokatti today.
Ukraine athletes continued to dominate the biathlon competition in Vuokatti in Finland during the final races in the Para Nordic Skiing World Cup season before the Winter Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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