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CBC Sports’ daily newsletter presents a quick primer on the Paris Paralympics, including some fun facts about the Canadian team. CBC | Sports News
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Canadian Paralympic teams traveling a redemptive arc into Paris Games
Each of the five teams representing Canada at the Paralympics head to Paris at different points in their evolution, with different meanings ascribed to potential podium performances. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Federal government to deliver budget money to 2024 Olympic, Paralympic athletes
The federal government fulfilled a budget promise to Canada’s athletes preparing for the Olympic and Paralympic Games with Monday’s announcement of $ 55-million infusion into the sport system. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor Wassermann named to Paralympic rowing team
Jacob Wassermann’s lifelong dream of representing his country at the highest level in sport, to wear the maple leaf on a global athletic stage, has finally become a reality. Rowing Canada made it official on Thursday as Wassermann is part of Team Canada going to the Paralympics. CBC | Sports News
Read More »‘The time was crap’: Paralympic champion Nate Riech falls short of world record, sets forth to Paris
Nate Riech lined up to try to break his men’s T38 1,500 metre world record at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont., on Tuesday, stopping the clock at three minutes 57.89 seconds, exactly 10 seconds shy of the world record he set in 2021. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canadian Paralympic gold medallist Nate Riech chases world record as tuneup for Paris
Canadian Paralympic gold medallist Nate Riech is looking to break his own T38 1,500-metre world record when he competes Tuesday at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Katarina Roxon selected for 5th Paralympic Games, breaking Canadian female record
Katarina Roxon, the pride of Kippens, N.L., is heading to Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games. The 31-year-old swimmer is still smashing expectations 16 years after her Paralympic debut. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada crushes Japan to open women’s wheelchair basketball Paralympic qualifier
The Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team is off to a strong start at its Paralympic qualifying tournament in Osaka, Japan. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Paris Games come with promise of a French renaissance for the Olympic, Paralympic movement
Following the difficulty of the pandemic-altered Tokyo Games, fans will once again pack venues and create electric atmospheres for athletes when the Games begin this summer in Paris. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Determined Canadian basketball men secure Paris Paralympic berth
Canada’s men’s wheelchair basketball team will return to France in August to continue its run of Paralympic appearances from 1968 following a 72-60 victory over Italy in a crossover game Monday at a last-chance qualifying tournament in Antibes. CBC | Sports News
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