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The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games.
17–28 September - Athens Summer Paralympics - 3808 athletes from 135 countries; [4] 517 events in 19 sports. 5-a-side football added to the program. [4] A cumulated global TV audience of 1.8 billion watch the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games. [9] Over 3000 journalists covered the Games. [5] 2004
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The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de Paris 2024), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
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The 2024 Paris Paralympics Opening Ceremony will air on Wednesday, August 28, 2024 starting at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. Highlights from the opening ceremony will also be featured in primetime ...
The last day of competition and the closing ceremony was held on 8 September. [ 1 ] The games included 549 events in 22 different sports, with no changes to the sports programme from the 2020 Summer Paralympics , however there were expansions for sports such as Badminton and Taekwondo .
The opening ceremony for the 2024 Paralympics took place on Aug. 28 at 8 p.m., local time. Viewers in the EDT and PDT areas tuned in at 2 p.m., and 11 a.m., respectively.