The Paris 2024 Organising Committee has reached the symbolic milestone of allocating or selling one million tickets for the Paralympic Games to be held in the French capital from 28 August to 8 September.

The Canoe Slalom Center in Oklahoma City, USA, will be the venue for the LA28 competitions, with six gold medals up for grabs. The announcement was part of the first wave of LA28 venue confirmations, which includes a number of venues that have moved in or out of the city of Los Angeles since the original bid in 2017.

World Para Ice Hockey has announced the return of the Women’s World Challenge for its third consecutive year, set to take place in Skien, Norway from 25-28 October. 

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has banned Para athletics athlete Amir Khosravani for three years for an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) in breach of the IPC Anti-Doping Code. 

World Sailing has launched its first Para Inclusive Strategy to guide the growth of the sport through to 2029 and facilitate its return to the Paralympic Games. The strategy emphasises the expansion of Para Sailing by working with Member National Authorities (MNAs), major events and the sport's global governing structure to create a more inclusive environment and increase international participation.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Para swimmer Aleksey Lyzhikhin for two years for committing anti-doping rule violations (ADRVs) in violation of the IPC Anti-Doping Code (the Code).

The organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Paralympic Games would like to include para-climbing in the programme of the games. A corresponding proposal has been submitted to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Sport climbing is currently only in the Olympic program. Medals were awarded for the first time in Tokyo 2020.

The UCI Gran Fondo Svendborg 2024 was a memorable cycling event with 1,700 participants on 8-9 June, giving riders the chance to qualify for the UCI Gran Fondo World Championships 2024, which will take place in Aalborg, Denmark, from 28 August to 1 September.

With three months to go until the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) is excited to launch its new Paris 2024 Paralympic Education Resource, which takes young learners on a journey through the City of Light with the New Zealand Paralympic Team.

Nurkhon Kurbanova broke the women's javelin T54 world record three times as Uzbekistan won three golds in the field. Britain's Hannah Cockroft won the women's 800m T34 for her second gold in Kobe and her 16th world title in total.

'Blade Jumper' Markus Rehm won his seventh consecutive long jump world title on day six of the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships, as wheelchair racer Noemi Alphonse claimed a first ever gold for Mauritius.

One of the most heart-warming stories from the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games involved high jump champion Sam Grewe. The American received a letter from a Japanese man whose son had also undergone a rotationplasty amputation having been diagnosed with the cancer osteosarcoma.

British wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft won her seventh 100m T34 world title - her 15th in total - on day five of the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships as China's Wen Xiaoyan set a new world record to win her second gold in Japan.

Algeria's 400m Paralympic champion Skander Athmani won the men's 100m T13 title on day four of the 2024 Para Athletics World Championships in Kobe with China's Shi Yiting and Deepthi Jeevanji of India setting world records.

In an interview with AFP, the International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons forecasted the upcoming 2024 Games will help make a difference regarding the perception of disabled persons and push their issues and rights back atop the list of the global agenda.