IOC President Jacques Rogge will miss the closing ceremony of the London Paralympic Games because he is due to undergo hip surgery, the IOC said on Tuesday.
Chinese swimmers surged to collect five gold medals at the London Paralympics on Monday, raising China's gold tally to 46 after Day 5 competitions.
South African "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius has unleashed an emotional claim that a rival in the T44 200 metres final at the London Paralympics beat him thanks to longer prosthetic legs.
When Britain's Stoke Mandeville hospital staged its first sporting contest for disabled patients in 1948 it hoped to show soldiers injured World War II that a broken back did not have to mean a death sentence.
China tied France 0-0 here on Sunday in the London Paralympic football 5-a-side Group B, sharing the top position with defending champions Brazil who crushed Turkey 4-0.
There are some moments during the London Paralympics Games that are touching and inspiring.
Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira upset defending champion Oscar Pistorius to win the men's 200 meters title at the London Paralympic Games.
Yang Liwan took the gold in the women's shot put - F54/55/56 here on Saturday, lifting China's gold medal tally up to 20 after three days of Paralympic action.
South Africa's Oscar Pistorius began his London Paralympic campaign in scintillating fashion as he smashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat on Saturday.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung Saturday congratulated Hong Kong swimmer Au Kai-lun for winning bronze in the men's 100m backstroke at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Paralympics athletes fight in various competitions and brought the audience wonderful games on the first of the London Paralympics Games on Aug 30.
Shooting down the first gold of the London Paralympics in wheelchair on Thursday, Chinese veteran markswoman Zhang Cuiping broke the 10-year-old world record with nine shots out of the final 10 above 10.3 points.