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...Farmer completed his fourth consecutive Winter Paralympics gold medal in Milan. Team USA beat Canada 6-2...records for goals (15) and points (26). His career Paralympic goals total reached 36, and his career points...is played on modified two-bladed sleds, with athletes pushing and shooting using two short sticks fitted...

...want." He had been to three Paralympic Games. He had a team relay...classification, which covers athletes who retain the most remaining...three VI categories at the Paralympics but whose impairment still...skis directly ahead of the athlete, communicating through a radio...fractions of seconds, the athlete-guide partnership runs closer...

...The next major Paralympic event on U.S. soil...Atlanta in 1996. The athletes who'll compete...more events, more athletes, and television...families who found Paralympic sport through the...weight for American athletes. Home soil, home...default, without any athlete having to earn...from scratch. One Athlete, Both Programs....other American athlete at these Games....

...cauldrons are out. Most athletes have already posted...for the 2028 Summer Paralympics, in coverage of whatever...coverage of whatever athletes do next, in conversations...Laurie Stephens made her Paralympic debut in Torino, Italy....largest mass boycott in Paralympic ceremony history. The...march in Verona. Their athletes competed for nine straight...

The 2026 Winter Paralympics began March 6 with 28 nations...added three golds to a career Paralympic medal total that now sits...Italy had its best Winter Paralympics in history. Kazakhstan won...Kazakhstan won its first-ever Paralympic gold. Athletes who had never...first-ever Paralympic gold. Athletes who had never stood on a...

...morning of the 2026 Winter Paralympics ran at Tesero, where Jake...last gold of the 2026 Winter Paralympics still up for grabs. Four...cross-country skiing at the Paralympic level is not one race run...different mental endurance. The athletes who peak once in a competition...done. Two para cross-country athletes,...

...Wednesday, the 22nd Paralympic medal of her career....and an eight-time Paralympian who has never won...morning, and U.S. athletes won three of them....competed at the Paralympic level for more than...has never won a Paralympic medal. Golubkov,...competing as a neutral athlete, won the men's sitting...10km. Two Chinese athletes followed him to the...

...sitting sprint and earned her 21st Paralympic medal. Aaron Pike was there at the...Pike is 39 years old, an eight-time Paralympian, and a world champion in para cross-country...than a decade. He has never won a Paralympic medal. The sitting 10km is where...The interval start format means athletes go out at staggered times and race...

For his entire Paralympic career, four Games and a relay gold plus three...before afternoon. In visually impaired events, athletes ski with a sighted guide who communicates through...compressed, single-session bracket. Adicoff made his Paralympic debut at Sochi 2014 at 18. He stepped away from...

...a bronze in the sitting field, completing his Paralympic medal set. Jeroen Kampschreur came back from...gold medal in the sprint sitting event: her 20th Paralympic medal and 10th gold, at her eighth Games. Kendall...Gretsch finished 16 seconds back for silver. Both athletes compete in sitting cross-country as well as biathlon....

...went on without them. The athletes were already in Milan, preparing...days into the 2026 Winter Paralympics, Ukraine is leading the medal...doesn't happen often at a Paralympic Games. Oleksandr Kazik took...earned bronze. All three athletes competed for Ukraine. The...needing a parade. Ukraine sent athletes to Milan to compete, not to...

...race. It's a small ritual, the kind athletes hold onto when everything else is...Monday, March 9, at the 2026 Winter Paralympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Patrick Halgren...standing super-G. It was his first-ever Paralympic medal. Robin Cuche of Switzerland...death, Patrick kept skiing. His First Paralympic Medal. Halgren has competed at this...