Welcome to all Huffington Post readers. Here's our London 2012 Paralympic live picture feed for Friday compiled by group picture editor @elliotwagland...

Mark Colbourne won Great Britain's first medal of the XIV Paralympic Games at the London 2012 velodrome this afternoon, with silver in the C1-2-3 one-...

The opening ceremony was a spectacular welcome to the athletes that have been sponsored by their nations and sent over to represent their best. Of all the changes and education of the last four years it was the athletes parade that gave us the greatest example of change. 4200 athletes have arrived to compete from 164 nations, more than ever before.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games opened in a dramatic and moving ceremony that had starring roles for the Queen and Professor Stephen Hawking. A pa...

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The London 2012 Paralympics will be a fantastic celebration, not just of sport, but of disabled people themselves. This should be a transformational moment for disabled people in this country but the hard work will need to continue long after the event... Our vision is that disabled people are active for life. To achieve this, one of our goals will be supporting more disabled people in different ways to realise the benefits of being active. This support should be available at whatever level they choose as only a small minority can take part in or reach Paralympic level.

We are looking at the Paralympics as a harder task. A bigger battle. A fight to win respect, unification and Gold. The Olympics truly were just a warm up.

The Paralympic flame created on Britain's highest peak was used to light a ceremonial cauldron in Edinburgh on Sunday as part of a festival celebratin...

Would you break your own toe to win a Paralympic medal? Would you sit on a sharp object or strangulate your testicles? It's cheating, but a scientist ...

The social media genie is well and truly out of the bottle and the IOC may need to think about making Facebook or Twitter part of their Worldwide sponsor programme if they really hope to come to terms with this revolution

Oscar Pistorius made history this week when it was confirmed he would be the first athlete with a prosthetic device to take part in the Olympic Games, but what really does this mean for the future of sport and society more widely?