In the second day of competition on Guanabara Bay, the athletes were postponed ashore until 1400 local, before the Sonar and SKUD-18 classes were able to complete a race, while the 2.4mR contest was ...

They claim the Games, due to take place in the Brazilian city from September 7 to 18, will break all viewing records as they aim to build on the success of the 2012 event in London. The announcement ...

MOSCOW, September 5. /TASS, Yevgeny Ionov/. With less than two days remaining before the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games kick off, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) guarantees that hosts Rio ...

American athletes are set to compete in 20 sports during 11 days of competition, with the Games scheduled to run from September 7 to 18. They will be represented in athletics, archery, cycling, ...

Day three of the Paralympic regatta couldn’t have been more different than the day before. The Rio sea breeze filled in with a purpose, allowing all three classes to complete three full races. The ...

It's been an unprecedented run for Brazil, now in the final days of its third mega-event moment. The 2014 World Cup is fading from memory, the August 2016 Olympics crowned a success, and the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Paralympics will go ahead next month despite being forced to implement further "major budget cuts" to the games in Rio de Janeiro. Poor ticket sales have compounded existing ...

As the USMNT continue their road to Russia in World Cup Qualifying, another elite national soccer team is gearing up for a major tournament: the US Paralympic National Soccer Team. The squad is now in ...

Objectives To evaluate athletes’ frequency of attendance at the eye clinic during the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016 and to correlate it to WHO core indicators on progress in ophthalmology care ...

When Brazilian design agency Tatil won the brief to create the brand for the Rio 2016 Olympics in 2011 it beat of competition from 139 agencies, all vying to claim the high-profile prize. “The brand ...