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WATCH: Tipperary songwriter's Raise Me Up in spectacular closing ceremony at Paralympics

Tipperary songwriter and composer Brendan Graham's classic You Raise Me Up was featured at the closing ceremony for the Winter Paralympics in Beijing. Brendan, from Nenagh, also had the song featured in last year's global EXPO in Dubai. "It’s one of ...

28 Mar 2022 at 20:33

Sport

Great Britain to send team of 25 athletes to Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing

Great Britain will send a team of 25 athletes to the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. ParalympicsGB has confirmed its biggest team since Lillehammer in 1994 after announcing 20 skiing and snowboard competitors alongside the five wheelchair ...

22 Feb 2022 at 11:25

Sport

Neil Simpson celebrates landmark gold for Great Britain at Winter Paralympics

Neil Simpson won Great Britain’s first gold medal at the Beijing Paralympics in the men’s Super-G vision-impaired class and then hailed sharing the “special” moment with guide and brother Andrew. Scotland’s Simpson brothers finished nearly ...

06 Mar 2022 at 09:55

Paralympics

On this day in 2014: Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte Evans win historic gold medal

Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans won Great Britain’s first gold medal at the Winter Paralympics in this day in 2014. Two days after suffering the disappointment of finishing last in the downhill, Gallagher and guide Evans made ...

10 Mar 2023 at 06:00

Sport

Full Ukraine team will travel to Beijing for Winter Paralympics, IPC confirms

The full Ukrainian team will be travelling to China to compete in the Winter Paralympic Games despite the invasion of the country by Russia. The International Paralympic Committee tweeted on Tuesday that Ukraine’s team, made up of 20 ...

01 Mar 2022 at 13:55

Paralympics

On This Day in 2014 – Kelly Gallagher and Charlotte Evans win Super-G gold

Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans won Great Britain’s first-ever gold medal at the Winter Paralympics on this day in 2014 with victory in the women’s visually impaired Super-G in Sochi. The duo had experienced disappointment ...

10 Mar 2024 at 06:00

Sport

Marcel Hug says Winter Paralympics decision is right but feels for athletes

Paralympic star Marcel Hug backed the decision to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Winter Games in Beijing but feels for the sporting stars caught up in the situation. The International Paralympic Committee made a ...

03 Mar 2022 at 13:55

Sport

Ukraine top medal table as Millie Knight and Brett Wild win GB’s first gold

Ukraine finished the opening day of the Beijing Winter Paralympics on top of the medal table after claiming three golds as Millie Knight and Brett Wild won Great Britain’s first medal of the Games. Grygorii Vovchynskyi was ...

05 Mar 2022 at 12:55

Sport

IPC chief Andrew Parsons makes plea for peace as Paralympics open in Beijing

International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons used his speech at the opening of the Beijing Winter Paralympics to make an impassioned plea for peace in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, ...

04 Mar 2022 at 15:55

Sport

‘Best of humanity’ on show at Winter Paralympics – Dame Katherine Grainger

Dame Katherine Grainger believes the Beijing Winter Paralympics have displayed the “best side of humanity and sport” in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Athletes from Russia and Belarus were banned from ...

13 Mar 2022 at 15:55

Sport

Neil Simpson wins Great Britain’s first gold medal at 2022 Winter Paralympics

Neil Simpson has claimed Great Britain’s first gold medal of the 2022 Winter Paralympics in the men’s Super-G vision impaired class alongside his guide and brother Andrew Simpson. The pair clocked one minute 08....

06 Mar 2022 at 08:25

Sport

Menna Fitzpatrick and Neil Simpson add to Winter Paralympics medal haul

Skiers Menna Fitzpatrick and Neil Simpson both claimed their second medals of the Winter Paralympics in Beijing on Monday. Simpson, who won gold in the vision impaired Super-G on Sunday, followed that by ...

07 Mar 2022 at 10:55

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