Northern Ontario athletes compete to success at Paralympics
Two athletes with ties to northeastern Ontario have wrapped up competing at the Paralympics in Beijing.
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Two athletes with ties to northeastern Ontario have wrapped up competing at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Alpine skier Mollie Jepsen got things started for Canada at the Beijing Paralympics — now she'll lead the Canadian contingent to close out the 2022 Games.
Brian McKeever was already a Winter Paralympic legend for Canada, but he sealed it on Saturday morning with a third gold of these Beijing Games, his 16th career gold and 20th Paralympics medal overall.
Steely Steve Thomas says embracing the ‘brutality’ and ‘dark places’ of Nordic skiing were the secrets behind securing his spot at a sixth Paralympic Games.
Swedish sled hockey player Amanda Ahrnbom arrived at the 2006 Torino Paralympics aiming to represent her country. Instead, she was ruled ineligible by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) during team processing after the organization learned she was a woman.
Mikaël Kingsbury of Deux-Montagnes, Que., gained a measure of revenge against Walter Wallberg, upending the 2022 Olympic moguls champion to win Saturday's dual event in World Cup action in Valmalenco, Italy.
BEIJING : China have won a raft of medals at the Beijing Winter Paralympics but a bronze in ice hockey, which they achieved by beating South Korea on Saturday, could end up being the most memorable simply due to their lack of pedigree in the sport.
It was a happy coincidence that Brian McKeever wore bib No. 16 on Saturday.