Tokyo Paralympics

From Jessica Long’s six medals to Nick Mayhugh’s record-breaking 100m, American Paralympians impressed in Tokyo.

See moments from the Paralympics Closing Ceremony and watch NBC’s Paralympic docu-series on Sunday at 7 ET/PT.

Controversy has broken out at the Paralympic Games

The arrival of the Afghan team in Tokyo came less than two weeks after the IPC was informed they could not travel, a move “that broke the hearts of all involved in the Paralympic movement and left both athletes devastated.”

NBC’s Olympics coverage has long been built on a foundation of human-interest stories and showcasing their road to the Games.

A lot has happened for this New Hampshire runner in the past five years. Here’s Noelle Lambert’s story from amputation in 2016 to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

Goalball competition at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics have begun — but what is it and how do you play? Here are the rules of the game.

Goalball is the most popular team sport for the blind and visually impaired.

Australian cyclist Paige Greco has earned the first gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics

After a twist of fate during the pandemic, a resilient double amputee will be competing for gold in the Tokyo Paralympics.

The Paralympics have begun in the same empty National Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics

The Afghanistan flag will be displayed in Tuesday’s opening ceremony of the Paralympics even though the country’s athletes were not able to get to Tokyo to compete

The Tokyo Paralympics kick off on Tuesday, Aug. 24. Here’s how to watch or stream events.

The Tokyo Paralympics will be held without spectators due to an alarming rise in coronavirus infections in the host city and many other parts of Japan, organizers said Monday, about a week before the opening of the games. The exception will be students participating in a government-backed education program, said the organizers, which also staged the recently concluded Olympics largely…

The U.S. Paralympic rowing team will soon be headed to Tokyo, and some of the athletes are training in Boston. The Community Rowing Center along the Charles River is the only national training center for rowers with disabilities. For Hallie Smith, of Brighton, Tokyo will be her first Olympic Games. “It’s still hitting me and I made the team...

The Community Rowing Center along the Charles River is the only national training center for rowers with disabilities.

A Brigham and Women’s Hospital doctor who’s competed in three Paralympic Games — and won seven medals — is headed to Tokyo to help current athletes after working with the Olympic Committee on preventing COVID-19’s spread.

American swimmer Becca Meyers has pulled out of the Paralympics because she says the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee won’t let her bring her mother to Tokyo as her personal care assistant.

Meet members of the U.S. Paralympic rugby team and hear about how wheelchair rugby, aka “murder ball,” earns its reputation as the most dangerous Paralympic sport.

Paratriathlete Melissa Stockwell lost her leg while serving in the Iraq War in 2004, and it was that injury which led her to search for a new challenge.