Winter Paralympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[heywoodu 16,468]

24 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

It's for all NPC, somehow they tried to conceal the boycott.

Oh that's such a shame, the two Brazilians were so much looking forward to it

 

Meh.

[hoversaBR 883]

10 minutes ago, avlar said:

Yes. IPC officially confirmed that athletes from Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine boycotted the ceremony.

 

In total 26 of 55 countries missed the ceremony. Some of them did not plab to attend it from the very beginning die to logistics but joined the reaction to russian`s reinstatement later. That helped IPC to have a shorter list of official boycotts.

 

 

 

This was a significant escalation; perhaps we will see more protests during the games themselves.

[hoversaBR 883]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh that's such a shame, the two Brazilians were so much looking forward to it

 

Meh.

It's very sad, because for Paralympic athletes, this moment represents the little visibility they get.

[heywoodu 16,468]

22 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

It's very sad, because for Paralympic athletes, this moment represents the little visibility they get.

Exactly. Although at least financially it doesn't matter for the Brazilians, since they get the same amount of money as non-para athletes even if there's only 10 athletes or so in a competition

 

But in terms of fun and experience, yeah, this sucks.

[Orangehair43 317]

The flame lighting was dull. For some reason C4 here in  loved that bit. They didn’t like Russia and Belarus being back. (Through they did seem to forget there were a lot of Neutral’s in Paris when talking about issues like how the Olympic Village will be handling it.

 

Andrew Parsons and Donald Trump  are going to be fascinating relationship in 2028. 

[Fer GUA 608]

This is so cool! El Salvador at Winter Paralympics!!!

 

Good luck!!

 

Edited March 7 by Fer GUA

[Gianlu33 6,055]

After much controversy, it's time for the competitions
12 titles up for grabs today: downhill skiing and biathlon sprint.

[Josh 13,628]

First gold medal of these Paralympics,  Veronika Aigner in women's downhill vision impaired! 

 

 Mazzel with a podium for the hosts in 2nd, and  Rexova wins bronze! @hckošice

[Gianlu33 6,055]

Alpine Skiing
Women's Downhill VI
Final Results

 

 Veronika AIGNER (AS3)
Guide: Lilly SAMMER

1:22.55

 

 Chiara MAZZEL (AS2)
Guide: Nicola COTTI COTTINI

1:23.03 (+0.48)

 

 Alexandra REXOVA (AS2)
Guide: Sophia POLAK

1:27.45 (+4.90)

[Josh 13,628]

No podium for  Jepsen