The object of the game is to score the most points in the opposing team’s basket. The team with the most points by the time the clock expires wins. As the name suggests, wheelchair basketball is an ...

Invented in 1976, and first contested at the Barcelona Paralympic Games in 1992, wheelchair tennis is an especially popular sport. Wheelchair tennis is played at all four Grand Slam tournaments, and ...

Wheelchair rugby is a mixed-team sport played by male and female athletes with some degree of paralysis in all four limbs. An alternative to wheelchair basketball, it allows players with this kind of ...

After being presented as a demonstration sport at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games, it made its debut as a medal sport at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics. Wheelchair rugby is a mixed-team sport for male ...

The latest Google Doodle showed two birds—one brown and the other blue—playing tennis in wheelchairs at the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris, France. And these birds were quite animated ...

Wheelchair tennis was founded in 1976 by US freestyle skier Brad Parks. The sport saw rapid growth and was officially introduced to the Paralympic Games in 1992 at Barcelona. According to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Magic Wheelchair is a nonprofit organization that literally lives up to their name. Their mission is to bring communities together to transform children's wheelchairs into ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. France’s Brianna Vide competes against China’s Chui Yee Yu during the women’s foil wheelchair fencing ...

The U.S. wheelchair rugby team won silver at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games Monday. The team lost to Japan 48-41. Japan was the only team the U.S. had lost to leading up to the gold medal match.

Wheelchair tennis permits two bounces before a return, with the second bounce allowed outside the court. Alfie Hewett, targeting his first Paralympic gold, and Gordon Reid, with a prior gold ...