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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.
Videos of her incredible performances at the Paris Paralympics have gone viral, making her one of the defining images of these Games. Sheetal Devi pictured training before the Paralympic Games ...
The light-hearted pre-race singing and dancing worked out for Pergolini, who earned the first American gold medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a time of 1:04.93 — just short of her world record ...
Team India’s archer Sheetal Devi introduced herself to the world at the 2024 Paris Paralympics by way of a perfect bull’s-eye. Devi, 17, is one of four archers without arms competing at the ...
In its opening game of the 2024 Paris Paralympics, the U.S. wheelchair rugby team defeated Canada 51-48. The victory also saw Sarah Adam become the first woman to play for the U.S. at the Games.
The ceremony opened with a video featuring Théo Curin , a French Paralympic swimmer and a member of the Athletes' Commission of the Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Curin was the host of a show called "Théo Le Taxi" on France Télévisions, the official
The designs of the 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.
Following Wednesday's Paralympic opening ceremony, Thursday will mark the first day of action for the 2024 Paralympic Games, which will last through Sept. 8.. The day will feature intense ...