Disability Sport

What is the Deaflympics?
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what the Deaflympics are, when it take place and how it is different to the Paralympics.
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Deaflympics athletes 'let down' by lack of funding
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England
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Ex-Paralympic champion Bate swaps saddles for sandpaper
On retiring from paracycling, Steve Bate plans to use his carpentry skills to create medal displays.
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18 October
Unwin & Holl win GB's third gold on day two in Rio
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GB claim double Euro wheelchair basketball silver
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Cundy wins 22nd world track title in Rio
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The Portugal basketballer turned England rugby player
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More Than The Score. Double Paralympic champion Ezra Frech calls for LA2028 rethink. Audio, 22 minutes
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The Paralympic champion brewing beer for gold goal
Paralympic javelin champion Dan Pembroke on his World Championship hopes and brewing beer for fellow British athletes.
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25 September
'They assumed I’d retire, that annoyed me' - Firth on motherhood and swimming return
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16 September
How 'BMX in a wheelchair' became an online sensation
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'I didn't feel valuable' - life in the slipstream for Nic Hamilton
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Paralympic rower thought she would never be loved
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How ex-Tiger Gough 'learned to live again' on water
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Equestrian body lifts Sir Lee Pearson's suspension
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Paris: Grassroots to Glory

'Completed it, mate' - Truesdale. Audio, 3 minutes
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Medallist Twomey is 'fantastic role model' Audio, 3 minutes
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'Unbelievable' silver for 13-year-old Winnifrith. Audio, 4 minutes
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Games of Thrones star Coombs wins silver. Audio, 3 minutes
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Paralympic athlete profiles

Husnah Kukundakwe: I hope others will feel courage to join in. Video, 00:02:53
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21 August 2024
Elena Semechin: 'I didn't know if I could be repaired' Video, 00:02:47
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12 August 2024
Bly Twomey: 'Table tennis makes all my worries go away' Video, 00:02:39
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13 August 2024
Phelipe Rodrigues: 'It will be hard to do my last splash' Video, 00:02:47
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13 August 2024
Bo Kramer: 'There isn't just one road that leads to success' Video, 00:02:34
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13 August 2024

Super Movers for Every Body

'I don't let anyone tell me I can't do something' - Kadeena Cox
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BBC Teach
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22 August 2024
David Smith on why more people should be playing boccia
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27 August 2024
Meet Iona Winnifrith - ParalympicsGB's youngest swimmer
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21 August 2024
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Watch and listen

Motherhood gives Firth new perspective on swimming. Video, 00:01:32
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16 September
How does wheelchair motocross work? Video, 00:01:30
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10 September
The Special Olympian chasing records at London Marathon. Video, 00:03:02
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26 April
'Don't tell disabled people they can't do sport' - Sugar. Video, 00:02:47
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1 July 2024
'I was ashamed of my disability before London 2012' Video, 00:00:44
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27 June 2024
Carriage driving gives 'new sense of freedom' after car crash. Video, 00:01:58
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18 April 2024
Special Olympics: Five Days in Folgaria. Video, 00:25:55
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19 February 2024

How to get into disability sport
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31 August 2016
Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
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BBC Sounds
Paralympic classifications explained. 5 Live In Short. Audio, 00:01:36
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BBC Radio 5 Live
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7 September 2016

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