String is taped to the markings on the court to allow players to feel the lines and orientate themselves. Goalball made its Paralympic debut in Toronto, Canada, in 1976, with the women’s event being ...

The complete goalball schedule, including TV listings, is also available on the NBC Olympics schedule page. All live streams are also available to watch on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices via ...

Goalball events will take place between Thursday, August 29 and Thursday, September 5 in Paris. A men’s and a women’s competition will be held with eight teams in each. Goalball athletes are visually ...

Latin America’s first Paralympics will be remembered as the peoples’ Games where the people of Rio turned out in their droves to support athletes of all countries. Rio 2016 arguably did more for the ...

But something I think goes sort of under the radar during the Olympic season are the Paralympics and just adaptive sports ... sport that can be played here at the U is a game called goalball. It was ...

At the same time, within a year of starting the sport, Lisa earned a spot as an alternate on the women’s goalball team for the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta. In 1998, she was selected to the ...

This marks the first time the tournament has been held on British soil. Goalball is a Paralympic sport designed for blind and ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—The U.S. teams competing in the goalball competition at the Paralympics have strong ties to Western Michigan University. In all, four graduates and a former instructor are in in Rio ...

Portugal’s Alexandre Almeida has been elected as the athletes' representative on the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) Goalball Sports Committee and to the International Paralympic ...

BBC say they will have an evening highlights show dedicated to the Paralympics most evenings. ParalympicsGB will take around 220 Paralympians to Paris, with blind football, goalball and sitting ...