The Paralympic Games in 1984 were held in New York and in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom. The events held in Stoke Mandeville, known as the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement, did not have an ...

The Paralympic mascot Mandeville was named after the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire which is the birthplace of the Stoke Mandeville Games, the predecessor of today’s Paralympic Games.

Former Stoke City loan defender Taylor Harwood-Bellis wants to keep making his sport-loving family proud, revealing his dad used to be Stockport’s mascot ‘Vernon Bear’ and that he gets ...