Welcome to the last component of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics -- the Paralympics.
There will be a total of 736 athletes competing across six sports at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. There are 39 events for men, 35 for women and four mixed events.
The events are broken up into two categories: snow sports and ice sports. Snow sports include alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, biathlon and snowboarding, while ice sports include para ice hockey and wheelchair curling. Para ice hockey and wheelchair curling, which are the two sports represented in the ice category, will be mixed events, while all snow sports will be separate men’s and women’s events.There will be 67 Americans participating at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, including 52 men and 15 women.athletes will not be allowed to compete in the 2022 Winter Paralympics. , which was to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as “neutrals.
Earlier in the week, the International Paralympics Committee granted these athletes a place in the competition. The only catch was the athletes could not represent their home country, but rather must label themselves as neutral. The IPC decided that Russian and Belarusian athletes would compete under the Paralympic flag and would not be included in the medal table.
However, considering Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, plans that once granted participation to these athletes, have changed.is preparing for an immediate appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, hoping to seek some sort of overturn of the exclusion of Russian athletes before the Opening Ceremony on March 4.
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