The latest news and comment on the Paralympic games
August 2024
After conquering 50-foot wave, Australian blind surfer seeks Paralympic inclusion
Matt Formston set a new world record when surfing the famous Nazaré break and is now pushing for para-surfing to be included at Brisbane 2032
Valentina Petrillo to become first openly transgender athlete at Paralympics
Valentina Petrillo, who transitioned in 2019 and won medals in World Para Athletics Championship last year, will run in the Paralympics Games
Gaza voices
The Gaza paracyclist: I was a footballer before losing my leg
Hazem Suleiman and his team were practising for the Paris Paralympics until the war. Now he cycles streets where everything is in ruins
July 2024
French rail network hit by arson attacks before Olympics opening ceremony
Parisians like me love to grumble about the Olympics – but could we be about to enjoy them?
Alexander Hurst
‘It’s a very strange feeling’: can the man who won Olympic gold bring glory to the Paris Games?
‘It might actually be cool’: wary Parisians seduced by prospect of Olympics
Madison de Rozario and Brenden Hall named as Australia’s Paralympics flag bearers
‘Gross and problematic’: how Channel 4 ripped up its approach to the Paralympics
Team GB placed on bullish course for record Olympic medal haul in Paris
Beating the odds: three Olympic sportswomen on overcoming poverty, mockery – and small swimming pools
June 2024
‘Max is my eyes’: Paralympian says post-Brexit rules stop him flying with his guide dog
Fascinating Olympians
Abandoned, abused and belittled: how Oksana Masters survived a torturous childhood – and became a world-beating athlete
British Paralympians urged to build forgotten history of disability sport
‘I treated the birth like a mini-Olympics’: the Team GB mothers going for gold at the Paris Games
May 2024
Europe’s big summer: how the Guardian is gearing up for a seismic season across the continent
Jon Henley
From potentially pivotal EU elections to a series of sporting extravaganzas, Europe will be the focus of the world’s attention over the next few months. A good job our coverage is stronger than ever, then
The Guardian picture essay
The G4D Open for the world’s best disabled golfers – a photo essay
As many of the world’s most talented golfers with disabilities returned to Woburn Golf Club to compete in the G4D Open, our photographer Tom Jenkins was there to take in the action and share some of the competitors’ stories
Paralympics countdown: ‘We want to positively influence lives of 1.2bn people’
Zip-up sneakers and magnetic fasteners: Australia’s Paralympic Games kit revealed
Paris authority slated for hiking cost of Métro and bus trips during Olympics
The Guardian picture essayThe G4D Open for the world’s best disabled golfers – a photo essayAs many of the world’s most talented golfers with disabilities returned to Woburn Golf Club to compete in the G4D Open, our photographer Tom Jenkins was there to take in the action and share some of the competitors’ stories
