At Paralympics, goalball is ‘the coolest sport you’ve never heard of’ Goalball — a sport created for those who are blind or have low vision — relies almost entirely on sound ...

Goalball is unique to the Paralympics, and it’s a sport in which blind people (who are used to navigating the world through touch and sound) have an advantage over sighted people.

Goalball is unique to Paralympic sports – a fast, skillful game without an Olympic counterpart in which visually impaired players seek to score by throwing balls into a goal defended by the ...

Merren and the American goalball team, which finished fourth in Tokyo, opened their 2024 Paralympic campaign with a 13-8 loss on Friday to defending gold-medalist Brazil in Pool A.

Goalball is a paralympic sport created for blind and vision-impaired athletes. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Andy Jenks, a former member of the U.S. goalball team and a silver Paralympic medalist.

Women first competed in goalball at the Paralympics in 1984. The United States men’s goalball team earned its first Paralympic medal, a silver, at the 1980 Games in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Goalball, a Paralympic sport, was designed for the blind in the 1940s, when many veterans of World War II had lost their sight. Often set adrift by this unwelcome and unplanned development in ...

But this isn’t ordinary soccer. This is blind football, one of two silent sports at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Blind football and goalball are for athletes with visual impairments.

This essay's author, Alex Hubbard, is a former reporter and columnist for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee.

Goalball is unique to Paralympic sports – a fast, skillful game without an Olympic counterpart in which visually impaired players seek to score by throwing balls into a goal defended by the ...