Hello and welcome to our Live Blog on day one of competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.  Thirty-eight gold medals are up for grabs today ...

Latin America’s first Paralympics will be remembered as the peoples’ Games where the people of Rio turned out in their droves to support athletes of all countries. Rio 2016 arguably did more for the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – To rousing cheers and a standing ovation, two para-athletes who faced the additional challenge of being displaced from their homeland made history on Wednesday leading the ...

The Paralympic flag is waved by Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes, right, following the hand over by Sir Philip Craven, centre, watched by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson during the closing ...

A Carson-Newman sophomore swimmer is among 4,300 athletes set to partake in Wednesday's opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympics. Robert Griswold, who was born with cerebral palsy, will represent the ...

LAKEVILLE, Minn. -- A swimming champion from Eagan leaves Minnesota Friday to compete in the 2016 Paralympic Games. Mallory Weggemann is flying to Houston, Texas for team camp, then will head a week ...

Rio 2016 medallist Lewis White has announced his retirement from para-swimming after a short but highly successful international career. White, who hails from Norwich, took up swimming at the age of ...