My next four blog posts related to sports will be devoted to confidence. The reason it will take so long to address confidence is because it is the single most important mental factor in sports.

Editor’s note: Each sport on the Rio 2016 Paralympic programme will have a dedicated week of featured content published on paralympic.org. Every week a new sport will be featured and the series will ...

Table tennis serves can exceed 200km/h and cross a 2.74m table in .11 seconds, which is about three times faster than the blink of an eye. Originally created as an after-dinner alternative to lawn ...