For the first time, category B was subdivided, with totally blind athletes running in the B1 event.

Totally blind athletes compete in T11 events, and are permitted to run with a sighted guide.

Iraq's basketball chief and a coach of blind athletes were kidnapped in Baghdad yesterday.

The sport was initially created for blind athletes through the use of tandem cycles, but inventive approaches have given the chance to a wider spectrum.

There were 310 athletes - 42 blind or visually impaired, 82 amputees and 185 wheelchair.

Rules have been developed to ensure blind athletes do not gain an advantage when led in a race.

We also see that blind athletes manage their expressions in social situations the same way sighted athletes do.

Runyan is the first legally blind athlete to make the American team in any sport.

She is restless for the day when someone will write about her as an athlete, not as a legally blind athlete.

A classification system also existed for blind athletes from B1 to B3.