Team USA has recently launched its brand for the upcoming 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, a platform designed to showcase the diversity of athletes and the wide range of Olympic and Paralympic sports.
and the noise lowers and stops — it has to, or the athletes can’t compete. That is because goalball — a sport created for ...
The first World Championships for goalball were held in Vocklamarck, Austria, in 1978. The International Blind Sport Federation (IBSA) governs goalball and holds World Championships every four years, ...
Different to most Paralympic sports, competitive goalball is played only by those who have a visual impairment. To ensure that all players are equal, the game requires competitors to wear blackout ...
Portugal’s Alexandre Almeida has been elected as the athletes' representative on the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball Sports Committee and to the International Paralympic ...
Goalball, a Paralympic sport, was designed for the blind in the 1940s, when many veterans of World War II had lost their sight. Often set adrift by this unwelcome and unplanned development in ...
There are now calls to create more goalball teams around Wales and give more young people with sight loss such as Gareth an opportunity to take part in team sports. “Goalball has saved my life ...
For two Haudenosaunee teens, blindness may make life harder, but it doesn’t stop them from achieving their goals both academically and through sport, in this case Goalball. Yehati Antone, age 14, is a ...
Israel’s goalball players wore yellow ribbons during their semifinal match, as a sign of solidarity with the Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Israel’s women’s goalball team won silver at the ...