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The Australian Rollers have advanced to the Gold Medal Game at the 2014 IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in South Korea. Showing unbelievable  spirit, the Rollers came back from 20…

The Australian Paralympic Winter Team has arrived home from Sochi today with two bronze medals and a wealth of experience under their belts. The Team of nine athletes and two…

Two Australians have played central roles in the Sochi Winter Paralympic Closing Ceremony at the Fisht Stadium over night. The youngest athlete of the 550 from 45 countries who competed…

For the first time ever, an Australian will win the prestigious International Paralympic Committee (IPC) award for excellence by an athlete both professionally and personally at a Summer or Winter…

One item you don’t usually find among a woman’s luggage on an overseas trip is a tool kit…. wrench, flat-head screwdriver, pliers. Meet Victoria Pendergast, Australian skiing pioneer. The 23-year-old…

“Little Benny Tudhope is a star of the future.” Those were the words of Australian snowboarder Trent Milton about his young teammate Ben Tudhope, who dazzled everyone on the slopes…

The Australian Paralympic Team will wear black armbands in tonight’s (7 March) Opening Ceremony for the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, to remember their fallen mate, Matthew Robinson. Robinson, a…

The Australian flag was raised in the Mountain Village at the Sochi Paralympic Games late on Tuesday amid Russian fanfare and tradition. Australia’s nine athletes, two sighted guides, Chef de…

Australia’s Toby Kane has won gold in the men’s standing super-combined at the IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup finals in Tarvisio, Italy, just days out from the start of the…