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The U.S. men’s basketball team will also begin its quest for a third consecutive gold medal with its opening game against Spain at 10 a.m. ET.
The Paralympic Games began in Paris on Wednesday, Aug. 28, when the opening ceremony was held, and will continue through Sunday, Sept. 8. Around 4,400 athletes will compete in 23 disciplines ...
Here is a closer look at the full day-by-day schedule for the Games, including every session for every sport (medal events in bold). Paris 2024 Paralympics schedule and day-by-day events More than ...
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.
The International Paralympic Committee approved the final schedule, and dates for the Summer Paralympic Games were released on 2 February 2023. [ 3 ] All times and dates use Central European Summer Time ( UTC+2 )
The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September 2024. There were 549 medal events. Mauritius, Nepal and the Refugee Paralympic Team won their first Paralympic medals.
The Paralympics originally began as the Stoke Mandeville Games in London in 1948, but became what it is today in 1960, as 400 athletes gathered in Rome to compete against one another.
The 2024 Paris Paralympics are set to begin Wednesday and will mark the first time that a Summer Paralympic Games is being held in France.