Brittani Coury returned to the slopes Friday at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games for the banked slalom competition.
Coury won a silver medal in the event at the 2018 Pyeonhchang Games, but sh.
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A total of 45 elite Para snowboarders, including Pyeongchang 2018
medallists Brenna Huckaby and Cécile Hernandez, have called on the
International Paralympic Committee to allow women's LL1 athletes to
compete in the women's LL2 classification at the Beijing 2022 Winter
Paralympics.
By IPC
The year started with high hopes and anticipation for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. While the COVID-19 pandemic that took hold since March turned the entire world’s expectations upside down, the Paralympic Movement saw glimmers of light during a dark year:
FINDING A NEW CALLING
The pandemic showed a different side of many Para athletes, who felt compelled to flex their medical backgrounds in the health crisis.
US Paralympic snowboard medallist Brittani Coury and two-time British Paralympic table tennis player Kim Daybell went to the frontlines to battle the coronavirus. Coury, a registered nurse in Utah, turned her attention to helping at a university hospital. Daybell was due to start training full-time for Tokyo the week of 23 March but instead found himself full-time at the hospital on the frontline of the National Health Service s (NHS). Spanish Para triathlete Susana Rodriguez Gacio, Dutch rower Annika van der Meer, Venezuelan swimmer Genesis Leal, Italian rower Greta