World Para Snow Sports reports that 81 athletes and staff from 21 nations are in Swiss resort Veysonnaz for the first event of the World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup season.
Double Paralympic champion Anna-Lena Forster is turning her attention back to the ski slopes after finishing a stressful period of university study.
Two documentaries about Paralympic snow sports athletes from Spain have been released, enjoying prominent billing at international festivals.
The inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer has been moved from next year to 2022.
Alpine skiers Markus Salcher and Veronika Aigner won the prizes for the best athletes with an impairment at Austria's Athlete of the Year awards.
There are now less than 100 days until the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships, with the International Paralympic Committee highlighting some of the biggest potential battles.
Dual Para-athlete and two-time Winter Paralympian Tori Pendergast has announced her retirement from Alpine skiing at the age of 29.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) and World Para Snow Sports have announced plans to extend their relationship to help encourage children to participate in snow sports.
Canada's Paralympic snowboarder Curt Minard has announced his retirement from the sport.
The World Para Snow Sports online Nations Meetings concluded after four days of presentations with 360 participants hailing from 45 countries.
Canadian Para-snowboarder Matt Hamilton has quit the sport after he was given a four-year doping ban following a positive test for a prohibited substance.
World Para Snow Sports is to host its first Online Nations Meeting over the next two weeks, bringing together all 60 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) which compete in its four disciplines.
United States' Paralympic snowboarder Brittani Coury has volunteered to help wards with patients suffering from coronavirus as part of her career as a nurse.
A fishing trip with Paralympic gold medal-winning Alpine skier Andrew Kurka is among the items up for bidding in the ongoing Adaptive Spirit Annual Event online auction.
Norway’s Jesper Pedersen has finished the 2019-2020 World Para Alpine Skiing World Cup season with a clean sweep of crystal globes, including the men’s sitting overall.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
International Paralympic Committee - Paralympic Games Brand Manager - Bonn, Germany
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) offers the position of a full-time Paralympic Games Brand Manager (f/m/x) in an international and multicultural team at the IPC Headquarters in Bonn, Germany, starting in early 2021. The IPC is the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. We supervise the organisation of the Paralympic Games and Paralympic Winter Games and serve as International Federation for 10 Para sports. The Paralympic Games Brand Manager is accountable to the Head of Brand and Engagement and will be responsible for ensuring the Paralympic brand is represented in a consistent and impactful way at the Paralympic Games.
As the International Ice Hockey Federation prepares to decide whether Belarus remains a co-host of its World Championship later this year, Philip Barker recalls other occasions where human rights has been a key topic in the build-up to a country staging a major sports event.
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