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The Olympic Winter Games may have come to a close, but there is still plenty of action to come from Beijing.
That is because the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, are yet to be played out and will be starting soon.
So, take note of the important details as you prepare for more entertaining winter sports.
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The multi-sport event starts on Friday 4 March with the Opening Ceremony at the Beijing National Stadium and runs until Sunday 13 March.
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There will be six different sports contested during the Paralympics: alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, sled hockey, snowboarding and wheelchair curling.
The alpine skiing will be comprised of five different events: downhill, super-G, super combined, giant slalom, slalom which will have standing, sitting and vision-impaired competition categories.
There will be a total of 30 medal events to compete in with an equal split between men and women.
Ones to watch include: Marie Bochet (FRA), Jeroen Kampschreur (NED), Giacomo Bertagnolli (ITA), Henrieta Farkasova (SVK), and Ebba Aarsjoe (SWE).
Like alpine skiing, the biathlon is split into standing, sitting, and vision-impaired categories.
Biathlon was introduced at Innsbruck 1988 for athletes with a physical impairment, and at Albertville 1992 for athletes with a vision impairment.
This discipline combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
Ones to watch in biathlon at the Paralympics include: Benjamin Daviet (FRA), Clara Klug (GER), Kendall Gretsch (USA), and Liudmyla Liashenko (UKR).
This discipline is open to competitors with physical and visual impairments and first appeared as a Paralympic sport at Örnsköldsvik 1976.
The athletes to watch include: Carina Edlinger (USA), Oksana Masters (USA), Brian McKeever (CAN), Zebastian Modin (SWE), and Natalie Wilkie (CAN).
This fast-paced and physically demanding sport has become one of the most popular disciplines at the Paralympic Winter Games since being introduced at Lillehammer 1994.
Sled hockey is played by male and female athletes with a physical impairment in the lower part of the body.
USA will be hoping to secure their fourth successive Paralympic title in 2022 as eight teams take to the ice.
Some of the most accomplished athletes include: Declan Farmer (USA), Tyler McGregor (CAN), Jung Seung-Hwan (KOR), and Andrea Macri (ITA).
This discipline is made up of snowboard-cross, banked slalom, and giant slalom, with a total of eight medal events - two of which are for women.
The sport made its debut at Sochi 2014 with two medal events in women’s and men’s snowboard-cross.
In snowboarding, athletes combine speed and agility while racing down courses as fast as possible.
The ones to watch include: Mike Schultz (USA), Chris Vos (NED), Keith Gabel (USA), Ben Tudhope (AUS), Lisa Bunschoten (NED), and Sandrine Hamel (CAN).
This sport is open to male and female athletes who have a physical impairment in the lower half of their body, including spinal-cord injuries, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, and double-leg amputation.
At Beijing 2022, wheelchair curling will feature 12 mixed-gender teams with each team required to include at least one female player.
It was introduced at Torino 2006.
Ones to watch include: Kristina Ulander (SWE), Polina Rozkova (LAT), Haitao Wang (CHN), Mark Ideson (CAN), and Ole Fredrik Syversen (NOR).
The Beijing 2022 Paralympics will include around 700 Paralympians across 78 medal events.
This will be split into 39 medal events for men, 35 for women and 4 mixed events.
These are the medal events for the Beijing 2002 Winter Paralympic Games (Beijing times):
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The 2022 Winter Paralympics will be shown across the NBC network in the United States, while Channel 4 has exclusive broadcast rights within the UK. State broadcaster TVNZ will show the event across New Zealand.