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Argentina's Lencina fails doping test at Paralympic Games

The Associated Press
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Argentine judoka Jorge Lencina has been provisionally suspended from the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics after failing a doping test. Paralympics spokes...
Brazilians being Brazilians lift Paralympic spirit

By NICOLE BARROS
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Powerlifting star Majid Farzin walked to the platform to roaring applause. Then, complete silence as he attempted his lift. Three white lights clic...
Race driver Alex Zanardi, a double amputee, wins gold at Rio

By GARRETT ROSS
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Nearly 15 years to the day he lost his legs in an auto racing crash in Germany, Italian athlete Alex Zanardi captured a gold medal Wednesday at the...
Armless Archer: There's almost nothing he can't do

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Matt Stutzman was born with no arms - just stumps at the shoulders - but he says there's almost nothing he can't do. He holds a world record for th...
AP PHOTOS: Records fall, attendance rises at Paralympics

The Associated Press
Sep 14, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Paralympic Games are in the home stretch, having overcome budget problems to stage a highly successful competition that has seen higher-than-ex...
Iraqi-American powerlifter finishes journey at Paralympics

By ANNA PITINGOLO
Sep 13, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - It's been quite a couple of weeks for Ahmed Shafik, the lone U.S. powerlifter at the Rio Paralympics. His wife delivered the couple's second son ea...
WADA says Russian hackers published athletes' medical data

By GRAHAM DUNBAR
Sep 13, 2016 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hac...
Paralympics: Games hit 'Big Time' as athletes look for edge

By STEPHEN WADE
Sep 13, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Paralympic Games have hit the big time. There's serious money for a few through performance and sponsorships, and wily ways to get an edge. The...
Five things to know: Lots of records at the Rio Paralympics

By BRETT GRAVATT
Sep 13, 2016 7:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - The Rio Paralympics have hit the midpoint, with its Brazilian hosts overcoming budget issues to stage what has been a successful games so far, with...
Russians stripped of 2 Beijing Olympic medals for doping

The Associated Press
Sep 13, 2016 7:00 am - LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Russia has been stripped of two track and field medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after retests showed their athletes doped with an anab...

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