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Cheating at the Paralympic Games has caused scandals that have significantly changed the way in which the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) manages the events. Testing for performance-enhancing drugs has become increasingly strict and more widespread throughout the Games, with powerlifting seeing the most positive results.
“It’s total discrimination,” Young, 24, told PA news agency. “We are part of the Deaflympics, which has been going since 1924, a lot longer than the Paralympics.
Schranz's case was particularly high-profile because of the disqualification controversy centring on him at the 1968 games and Schranz's subsequent dominance of alpine skiing in the Skiing World Cups of 1969 and 1970. Brundage's twenty-year reign as President of the IOC ended six months later and subsequent presidents have been limited to terms ...
Cheating at the Paralympic Games; Concerns and controversies at the 2012 Summer Paralympics; Concerns and controversies at the 2020 Summer Paralympics; COVID-19 cases at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics; COVID-19 cases at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2022 Winter Paralympics
Brittain added the differential between Paralympic and Olympic champions “reinforces much of the other systemic and structural discrimination disabled people encounter on a daily basis that ...
The International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee want to have a say on Russia's doping ban. With Russia facing a four-year ban on its name and anthem at major events ...
On 7 June 1999, Maguire made a complaint to the human rights and equal opportunity commission (HREOC), alleging that the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) had discriminated against him as a person disabled, in contravention of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 [1] in three aspects: the failure to provide braille copies of the information required to order Olympic ...
Australian runner Jaryd Clifford says he is “devastated” after being disqualified from a Paralympic event over the weekend. Clifford, 25, finished third in the men’s 5000-meter T13 final Aug ...