Amputee

A Calgary man has just returned from Turkiye after spending nearly five months there helping his two siblings who were severely injured in the earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria in February. More than 50,000 people were killed…

KATHMANDU, Nepal - The first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Mount Everest returned from the mountain on Tuesday pledging to dedicate the rest of his life to helping people with disabilities. …

KATHMANDU: Gorkha veteran Hari Budha Magar, who was almost killed serving with the British army in Afghanistan, has become the first double above-the-knee amputee to climb Everest, a member of his team said Sunday."He reached the top of…

Polish amputee Marcin Oleksy still cannot believe his scissor kick won the 2022 FIFA Puskas Award for the best goal on Monday, beating finalists Dimitri Payet and Richarlison to the prize.Oleksy's spectacular overhead kick in amputee…

CNN  —  On a busy weekend in Freetown, Sierra Leone, dozens of people gather to watch an afternoon football match not unlike countless others you’d find anywhere else in the…

At least, that's what Jacky Hunt-Broersma, an amputee endurance runner based in Arizona, might have thought before she took up the sport nearly six years ago. "I wasn't a runner before I was an amputee," she tells CNN Sport, "I thought…

When amputee athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her mantra is, "I can do hard things," she's not kidding -- the amputee athlete has run 104 marathons in as many days, all using a carbon-fiber prosthesis. …

Jacky Hunt-Broersma runs like a woman possessed. And in a way, she is: The amputee athlete is trying to run at least 102 marathons in 102 days. Last month, a little more than two-thirds toward her goal of setting a new world record for…

Industrialist Anand Mahindra was blown away by a video of a quadruple amputee driving a modified vehicle with the utmost east. The engine for the vehicle was taken from a scooter, he explains before taking turns with the vehicle. Having…

CAIRO : Egypt's amputee soccer team are hoping to boost their World Cup chances when they head to Tanzania this month for their first appearance in a regional African tournament. Egypt is one of few Arab countries with a national team…