Sportshour

Poor ticket sales, finance issues, Russian athletes banned. The Paralympic movement is facing a testing time ahead of the Rio Games. We hear from Tatanya McFadden, the American parathlete who has reportedly pledged $1000 out of her own pocket to buy tickets for Brazilian children. And, we hear from disappointed Russian Paralympian Irina Vertinskaya, and Lord Holmes who was the director of Paralympic Integration at the London Games in 2012.Struggling to Cope: Life After Football Regi Blinker, the former Dutch international who played in the English Premier League for Sheffield Wednesday and in Scotland for Celtic, retired 13 years ago. Since then he founded and continues to run the successful Life After Football magazine. The publication is dedicated to the professional game in which the worlds of fashion, art and football collide. The Problematic State of Aussie Sport: A record rugby union defeat to the All Blacks, swept by Sri Lanka in the cricket and an Olympic medal haul lower than London 2012, an Olympiad