More than 4,000 athletes with physical, vision and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports during the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. Within those 22 sports, there will be 549 medal events.

Tessa Nagy has been making history from Santa Monica to the world stage, proving that anyone can achieve success with the right attitude. At last month’s U.S. Paralympics Swimming National ...

At the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, it was discovered that none of Spain's gold medal winning basketball team has an intellectual disability so INAS-FID athletes were banned from all Paralympic ...

Inas has confirmed it's working with the IPC to make Nordic skiing the first sport on the Winter Paralympic Games programme to be offered to athletes with an intellectual disability ©Inas ...

When British swimmer Chloe Davies, 13, found out she had qualified for the London 2012 Paralympics, she screamed with delight and sprinted up and down the stairs of her family’s home in Somerset, ...

Christie Raleigh Crossley had a dream of swimming at the highest levels. A car accident and then a tumor delayed that dream, but now she's a Paralympic medalist. The 37-year-old from Toms River, New ...

Diagnosed with an intellectual disability, Telangana’s Deepthi Jeevanji turned childhood stigma into triumph. From running ...

In Astana, Kazakhstan, a crowd erupted as Australia’s men’s team sealed gold in the 5x5 final at the 2025 Virtus World Basketball Championships. But for athletes with intellectual disabilities, this ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jaime Schultz, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) More than 4,000 athletes with physical, ...