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***PARIS 2024 PARALYMPIC GAMES***

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The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will take place between 28 August and 8 September, will see more than 4,000 athletes from around the world competing in 549 medal events. The first Paralympic summer Games in the French capital will showcase 22 sports, including both individual and team sports.
 
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Parish 2024: Paralympic powerhouses USA aim to extend legacy​

Across the 16 previous editions of the Paralympic Games, one nation has stood out in terms of its performance – the United States of America. US athletes have won a total of 2,283 medals at the Games, including 808 golds. And Julie Dussliere, Chief of Paralympics for the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), is optimistic her team will add more hardware at Paris 2024. The fact that Paris 2024 is rolling around just three years after Tokyo has only sharpened the focus of USA Para sports, says Dussliere.
 
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Paris 2024: Ticket sales for the Paralympics Games exceed 1.75 million
With one week to go until the Opening Ceremony, over 1.75 million tickets have already been sold for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. More than 700,000 tickets have been purchased since the start of the Olympic Games, and tickets for many sessions are close to selling out.

IPC teams up with TikTok for Paris 2024 Paralympics Games
For the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the IPC and TikTok built a strategic framework focused on engaging fans with more unique content than ever before, growing the IPC global audience, and providing a new and uniquely innovative way to support Para sport.
 
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Paris 2024 Paralympics : Béatrice Hess, Damien Seguin, Marie Bochet, Charles Rozoy... Who will be carrying the Flame on August 25?​


With the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the first ever summer games to be held in France, just a few days away, the Paralympic Torch Relay is getting ready to set off on its journey. It is indeed this Sunday 25 August, the day after its lighting in Stoke Mandeville, that the Relay will be launched. For the occasion, the Paralympic Flame, once it has arrived in France following a Channel crossing in the eponymous Tunnel between 10.30am and 1pm, will be digitally multiplied into 12 Flames (Calais, Valenciennes, Amnéville, Strasbourg, Thonon-les-Bains, Antibes, Montpellier, Lourdes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Lorient, Saint-Malo and Rouen).

Among the first bearers of the sacred fire, which will then ignite the Paralympic Cauldron on the evening of 28 August at the Tuileries, will be cyclist Audrey Cordon-Ragot, basketball player Romane Bernies, snowboarder Paul-Henri De Le Rue and skipper Benjamin Dutreux. A host of Para sports icons will also be taking part, including Ludivine Munos (Para swimming) in the Channel Tunnel, Béatrice Hess (Para swimming) in Strasbourg and Marie Bochet (Para alpine skiing) in Thonon-les-Bains, Raphaël Dutay (Para swimming) in Antibes, Damien Seguin (Para sailing) in Lorient, Marie-Sarah Barré-Ruellan (Para equestrian) in Saint-Malo and Charles Rozoy (Para swimming) in Rouen.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics : Béatrice Hess, Damien Seguin, Marie Bochet, Charles Rozoy... Who will be carrying the Flame on August 25?​


With the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the first ever summer games to be held in France, just a few days away, the Paralympic Torch Relay is getting ready to set off on its journey. It is indeed this Sunday 25 August, the day after its lighting in Stoke Mandeville, that the Relay will be launched. For the occasion, the Paralympic Flame, once it has arrived in France following a Channel crossing in the eponymous Tunnel between 10.30am and 1pm, will be digitally multiplied into 12 Flames (Calais, Valenciennes, Amnéville, Strasbourg, Thonon-les-Bains, Antibes, Montpellier, Lourdes, La Roche-sur-Yon, Lorient, Saint-Malo and Rouen).

Among the first bearers of the sacred fire, which will then ignite the Paralympic Cauldron on the evening of 28 August at the Tuileries, will be cyclist Audrey Cordon-Ragot, basketball player Romane Bernies, snowboarder Paul-Henri De Le Rue and skipper Benjamin Dutreux. A host of Para sports icons will also be taking part, including Ludivine Munos (Para swimming) in the Channel Tunnel, Béatrice Hess (Para swimming) in Strasbourg and Marie Bochet (Para alpine skiing) in Thonon-les-Bains, Raphaël Dutay (Para swimming) in Antibes, Damien Seguin (Para sailing) in Lorient, Marie-Sarah Barré-Ruellan (Para equestrian) in Saint-Malo and Charles Rozoy (Para swimming) in Rouen.

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Steve Serio, Nicky Nieves named U.S. Paralympic flag-bearers​

Former gold medalists Steve Serio and Nicky Nieves have been chosen as the United States' flag-bearers for the Paralympic opening ceremony, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced Friday. Serio has helped the U.S.'s wheelchair basketball team to gold medals at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympic Games. A five-time world champion, he is co-captain of its 2024 team along with Trevon Jenifer. Nieves helped Team USA win its first gold in sitting volleyball in 2016. The opening ceremony for the Paris Paralympics will be held across Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées on Wednesday. The flag-bearers were chosen via a vote by fellow American Paralympic athletes. The American contingent is made up of 225 athletes and guides.

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Paralympics open in Paris with outdoor ceremony​

Just weeks after hosting the Olympics, Paris inaugurated the 2024 Paralympics on Wednesday with an opening ceremony nearly four hours long in the heart of the city. Against the backdrop of a setting sun, thousands of athletes paraded down the famed Champs-Elysées avenue to Place de la Concorde in central Paris where French President Emmanuel Macron officially declared the Paralympic Games open. About 50,000 people watched the ceremony in stands built around the iconic square, which is the biggest in Paris and is visible from afar because of its ancient Egyptian obelisk. Accessibility for athletes in wheelchairs was facilitated with strips of asphalt laid along the avenue and placed over the square.

More than 4,000 athletes with physical, visual and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports from Thursday until Sept. 8. The opening ceremony was held outside the confines of a stadium, just like when the Olympics opened in the city on July 26. Fighter planes flew overhead, leaving red, white and blue vapors in the colors of the French national flag, before the delegations entered the square in alphabetical order. The Paralympic flag was raised high into the night sky and its emblem adorned the top of the Arc de Triomphe about 3 kilometers (2 miles) away. The closing ceremony will be held at Stade de France, the national stadium.

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Paris on track for 1st-ever Paralympic sellout, officials say​

Paris 2024 has sold just over 2 million tickets for the Paralympic Games, organizers said hours before the opening ceremony Wednesday, adding they were confident it would be a sold-out extravaganza. Organizers said Tuesday that some 500,000 tickets were still up for grabs, which, if they are sold, would put Paris just short of the record 2.7 million sold for the 2012 London Games, where 97% of tickets were purchased. At the 2008 Beijing Games, 1.82 million tickets were sold and organizers distributed 1.62 million to schools, according to International Paralympic Committee figures. Some 2.1 million tickets were sold for the 2016 Rio Paralympics, a number Paris expects to surpass, according to IPC spokesperson Craig Spence. Paris officials are confident the Paralympics will be sold out, which would be a first.

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Zakia Khudadadi wins first medal for Refugee Paralympic Team​

Zakia Khudadadi made history Thursday at the Paris Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal. Khudadadi won bronze in the women's 47kg category in taekwondo after defeating Turkey's Ekinci Nurcihan. When the final buzzer sounded at the Grand Palais in central Paris, Khudadadi erupted in joy, throwing her helmet and mouthpiece into the air.

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Which Paralympians have won the most medals?​

The Paralympics are a showcase of the most talented disabled athletes from around the world. As the 2024 Summer Paralympics get underway in Paris, here's a look at the winningest Paralympians of all time and the events they've dominated.

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Place de la Concorde during the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

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Paris 2024 Paralympics: photos of the best moments from the Opening Ceremony​

The Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games kicked off with a sequence featuring former French Para swimmer Théo Curin. In his taxi decorated with Paralympic symbols, he opened the ceremony by arriving at the Place de la Concorde and shouting "Welcome to Paris!" Blue, white and red fireworks then lit up the Parisian sky.

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The current Paralymic medal count for the Paris Games
As more than 4,400 athletes gather in Paris for the 2024 Paralympic Games, the first medals are starting to be awarded. The Games kicked off on Aug. 28, and will run through Sept. 8


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No.1: China: (12 Gold - 9 Silver - 4 Bronze) -.25
No.2: Great Britain: (6 Gold - 6 Silver - 3 Bronze) -15
No.3: Brazil: (5 Gold - 1 Silver - 7 Bronze) - 13
 
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The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will take place between 28 August and 8 September, will see more than 4,000 athletes from around the world competing in 549 medal events. The first Paralympic summer Games in the French capital will showcase 22 sports, including both individual and team sports.
 
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