Smashing it. It isn’t news that Team Ireland has been absolutely crushing it over in Tokyo at this year’s Paralympics, and their winning streak is only getting better. Ireland’s Katie-George and Eve McCrystal have won silver medals in the 3000m Individual Pursuit this morning. The girls still have two more events coming up but this […]
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“Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t do something, you really can do whatever you want.” It’s been a rocky road for Paralympian Richael Timothy but as she heads for Tokyo, her sight is set on making Roscommon proud and moving onwards and upwards. After her football career was cut short in 2017 when she […]
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The Paralympic Games have just begun, and are set to run until Sunday 5 September. The multi-sport event sees athletes with physical disabilities compete at the games in Tokyo, with a number of them proudly flying the flag for Team Ireland. The paralympians will be representing their country in an array of sports from archery […]
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Finally. It’s long overdue, but the Tokyo Olympics is finally giving Paralympic athletes the same recognition as their Olympic counterparts. Following the 2018 Winter Olympics, it was announced by the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee that the two athlete groups would earn the same pay for any medals they win. This means, for the first […]
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She was denied her personal care assistant. Becca Meyers, a deaf and blind Paralympic swimmer, has withdrawn from Tokyo 2020 after officials refused her request to bring along her mother as her care assistant. Officials stated she had to use the same care assistant as thirty-three other athletes during her time in Japan. Twenty-six-year-old Meyers […]
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