Sports
The about-face comes less than 24 hours after the IPC announced it would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete when the Games open Friday.
March 2, 2022
Top of the Ticket
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Oct. 2, 2009
Olympics
The International Paralympic Committee announced Monday that Russia remains banned from the upcoming Winter Paralympics, but that its athletes will be given a chance to compete under a neutral flag.
Jan. 29, 2018
Overcoming the scars of decades of war by competing in the Tokyo Paralympics, Afghanistan’s athletes know their lives will never be the same.
Sept. 4, 2021
The head of the International Paralympic Committee warned Monday that the entire Russian team is facing exclusion from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
May 22, 2017
World & Nation
The Paralympics have begun in the same empty National Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics.
Aug. 24, 2021
LA 2024 will send a 16-person delegation to the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro as part of its ongoing campaign to bring the Olympics back to Southern California.
Sept. 7, 2016
Ukrainian athletes decide against boycotting Sochi Paralympics for now
March 7, 2014
Russia is banned from the Paralympic Games as punishment for a state-backed doping program, after losing an appeal at sport’s highest court.
Aug. 23, 2016
No matter how Oscar Pistorius ends up serving his five-year sentence for killing Reeva Steenkamp, Paralympic officials say he will remain ineligible to compete for the duration, which rules him out of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Oct. 21, 2014