This is how runners who are blind or severely visually impaired race in the Paralympics: alongside a running guide who is connected to them with a rope tether around their fingers. Not all ...

Take, for instance, first-time Paralympic runner Chaz Davis, who spoke with INSIDER earlier this summer. "Farther away I can't make anything out at all," he said. "But when it comes to running ...

The Paralympics generally do not receive as much public attention as the Olympic Games, with broadcasters in Hong Kong usually only running highlights of the events, rather than showing them live.