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Tokyo 2020: Japan’s blind football debut
Japan will make their blind football debut at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, where they will be vying for a medal against the world’s best teams. The East Asian nationa...
World Goalball Day to take place on 12 September
The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball has announced that the first World Goalball Day will take place on 12 September 2021, aiming to ride the wave of...
Tokyo 2020: Huking swaps ice for goalball
For many people who compete at the Paralympics, the pinnacle of their sport, they started at a young age but for the USA’s Marybai Huking this was not the case. Huking’s...
Tokyo 2020: Da Silva driven to win Brazil’s fifth Paral...
Brazil are the four-time Paralympic football 5-a-side gold medallists and are 22 games unbeaten in all editions of the competition since the sport’s debut at Athens 2004....
Tokyo 2020: Gagné to carry Canadian judo medal hopes
Priscilla Gagné will represent Canada in judo at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, as the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) and Judo Canada confirmed her selection to th...
Tokyo 2020: Goalball family affair for Smith at Paralym...
For most athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics they will not be able to have their family join them, but goalball player Brodie Smith will have her dad literally by her...
Espinillo dreams of winning gold with the ‘Bats’ at Tok...
Still elated from winning Argentina’s third IBSA Blind Football World Grand Prix title, Maximiliano Espinillo is banking on his goal scoring prowess to turn his country’s...
Tokyo 2020: Marques oozes confidence in goalball
The Tokyo Paralympics will be the most unique edition of the event’s long and storied history. For Brazilian star Romario Marques it will be a world away from Rio 2016. C...
Tokyo 2020: Phipps charged with putting judo back on Au...
Australia’s first Paralympic judo representative since 2008, Wayne Phipps, wants to produce his very best at Tokyo 2020 in honour of his adopted nation and the network of...
China hoping to convert regional blind football dominan...
The Chinese blind football team are a formidable force on the international stage and are touted to win their second Paralympic football 5-a-side medal at Tokyo 2020. Chi...
Blind football women’s World Championships pushed back...
The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Blind Football have announced that the first Women’s World Championships will now take place at the 2023 IBSA World Games...
Goalball: Burk – “I was scared right from the sta...
Playing sport at the highest level requires superhuman amounts of guts and courage. This is no truer for any game more than goalball where players literally have to throw...