Tokyo 2020 President Yoshirō Mori has welcomed the election of Andrew Parsons as the new head of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue has revealed the governing body has still not received a promised invitation to send its Demonstration Team to the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Championships in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.

Sochi 2014 Olympic gold medallist Eva Samková was the fastest women’s qualifier as the 2017-18 International Ski Federation Snowboard Cross World Cup season begun in Cerro Catedral in Argentina today.

Top seed Rafael Nadal came from behind against Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro to set up a US Open men’s singles final with South Africa’s Kevin Anderson.

The United States beat previously undefeated South Korea today to take the outright lead in the super round of the World Baseball Softball Confederation Under-18 World Cup in Thunder Bay.

World number one Gustavo Fernández of Argentina has booked his place in the semi-finals of the US Open wheelchair men’s singles event after beating France’s Nicolas Peifer today.

World champion Peter Sagan of Slovakia claimed the 100^th victory of his career after coming out on top at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec.

Pyeongchang 2018 has today unveiled the Paralympic Torch and Torchbearer uniform in addition to announcing the eight-day route and Torchbearer nomination plan.

Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) member at large Mikhail Terentiev says the national governing body is keen to establish good cooperation with the newly-elected International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board.

Newly-elected International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons has said he thought it was "not probable" that he would claim an opening-round victory here today at the organisation's General Assembly. 

Andrew Parsons has been elected as the new President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) here today at the governing body's General Assembly.

Iranian powerlifter Siamand Rahman and Cuban sprinter Omara Durand have won the respective best male and best female awards at the 2017 Paralympic Sport Awards held here this evening.

An investigation has been opened by the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) Electoral Commission into what appears to be an attempt at undermining the campaign of Andrew Parsons to replace Sir Philip Craven as President, insidethegames can reveal. 

A general motion has been approved today for a long-term plan to be presented on increasing the number of Summer and Winter Paralympic Games medal events for persons with intellectual disability.