She decided to participate in para sports six years later and took to swimming and javelin throw, winning medals at national and international events.

In the meantime, the IPC will now look to fill the 267 slots formerly occupied by Russian para athletes can be filled by other competitors.

He not only is headed to Rio, he is going as the top compound open para shooter in the world.

Sophia Para typically produces 100 to 120 dozen of the filled half-moon dumplings each week.

Here, in the badlands of rural Para, the challenges to those commitments are all too clear.

Ricardo V. Paras, the Philippine justice department official who represented the Bangladesh government in court, did not return telephone calls to seek comment.