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The 2024 Summer Paralympics, the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, was a major international multi-sport event for the disabled governed by the International Paralympic Committee, taking place in Paris, France from 28 August to 8 September. [1]
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.
11 August 2024 Gymnastics, women's floor Jordan Chiles −1 −1 The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee appealed the scores in the women's floor event to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which overturned it. As a result, Romanian Ana Bărbosu moved up to the bronze medal position, while American Jordan Chiles was demoted to fifth. [39] [40]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
United States women's team qualified to compete by virtue of the gold medal results at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Team roster The following is the United States roster in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [14] [15]
Meet the U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team ... honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022, and won the 2024 ESPY Award for Best Comeback Athlete. TL;DR: Simone is a literal living legend ...
PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 04: Silver Medalist Tatyana McFadden of Team United States waves during a medal ceremony the Women's 100m-T54 Final on day seven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games ...
The designs of medals for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were unveiled on 8 February 2024; [10] as with the Olympic medals, the front of the Paralympic medals features an embedded original piece of scrap iron from the Eiffel Tower in the shape of a hexagon, engraved with the Paris 2024 emblem.