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Paralympic Games end with a Parisian electro-dance party after 2 world records on final day
PARIS (AP) — The Paralympic Games ended Sunday with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic music Jean-Michel Jarre got the party underway at the Stade de France, coaxing dance moves from athletes, volunteers and...
Hunter Woodhall wins Paralympic sprint title to join his wife as a gold medalist
PARIS (AP) — One month after Tara Davis-Woodhall's Olympic title in the long jump, her husband Hunter Woodhall, a double amputee, won his own Paralympic gold medal Friday at the Stade de France. Davis-Woodhall’s rush into the stands for a celebratory hug from her husband became a...
Paris wants to honor late Ugandan Olympian Cheptegei by naming sports venue after her
PARIS (AP) — The city of Paris wants to honor the late Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei by naming a sports venue after her. The proposal was announced by city mayor Anne Hidalgo on Friday and will be discussed by city officials in October. Cheptegei died on...
Uganda Olympic runner's horrific death is the latest in violence against female athletes in Kenya
Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei's horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya's harrowing history of domestic violence against female athletes. Her killing follows the deaths of at least two other high-profile...
Olympic 400 champion Rai Benjamin visits Giants before practice for Vikings
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A week after taking the No. 1 jersey out of retirement for sensational rookie receiver Malik Nabers, the New York Giants did it again on Wednesday. They handed out the No. 1 to Olympic track star and life-long Giants fan Rai Benjamin. The Mount Vernon,...
War at home is taking its toll on the only Palestinian athlete at the Paralympic Games
PARIS (AP) — Fadi Aldeeb got the competing out of the way early at the Paralympic Games. He’s been using the rest of the time to talk. The only Paralympian in the Palestinian delegation in Paris, Aldeeb feels he bears special responsibility to represent all Palestinians living in...
New to long jump, U.S. Paralympians Lambert and Wallace form unlikely partnership
PARIS (AP) — After an early workout session at Team USA’s high-performance center at the Paralympics, Noelle Lambert spots Jarryd Wallace by the side of the track. Loaded down with bags and a full-leg prosthetic, she stops to tell him that she’s switching blades. The new, softer one she...
Latest Russian doping case from 2012 London Olympics set to raise US runner Rowbury to get bronze
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — More than 12 years after the 2012 London Olympics, United States 1,500-meter runner Shannon Rowbury is set to get a bronze medal because of yet another doping case in a notoriously dirty race. Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova, a two-time world...
This transgender sprinter will compete for Italy at the Paralympics
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — Valentina Petrillo fell in love with athletics as a 7-year-old while watching Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea win gold in the 200 meters at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. “I said I wanted to be like him,” said Petrillo, a transgender woman who was raised as a...
Wearing the eyes of Picasso Townsend wins third straight high jump gold medal at Paralympics
PARIS (AP) — With his hair colored in a design reminiscent of the eyes in a Picasso painting, Team USA athletics captain Roderick Townsend was ready to go for a three-peat at the Paralympics. “I’m a showman,” Townsend said, explaining the hairstyle he had done at a salon in...
