The organizes or Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games met yesterday for the 3rd time this year discussing adding new communities to the 2010 Olympic Torch relay and the ticket sales of the Vancouver's next year Olympic Games in this current economic condition.

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.

Beijing is now host to the more than 4000 athletes who are taking part in this year's Paralympic Games. But these games are now a 'must' for Olympic host cities, so are Chinese attitudes to disability really changing?

Panasonic, the leading brand for which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is best known, today announced that the company has agreed on a partnership with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games(BOCOG) to become an Official Partner of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games in the Video and Audio Equipment Category.

U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee, is pleased to announce the nomination of eight athletes to the U.S. Archery Team that will compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, China.

Canberra paralympic hopeful Rob Oakley says he is confident of making the fifth and final spot in the Australian equestrian team.

Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, opened a new £1 million sport science laboratory and a national conference at the University of Bath today.