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Paris authorities have vowed to host a tournament to be remembered for a long time as they prepare to host the 2024 Paralympic Games.
After the Tokyo Games in 2021 were held without spectators due to the Corona epidemic, and the Rio Games in 2016 were faced with financial problems, the city of Paris was under pressure to hold a competition that would be equal to which was held in London in 2012 or even the Paris competition passed it.
The opening ceremony which will be held this Wednesday at 7:00 pm Nigerian time will be at the Place de la Concorde, where 549 gold medals will be awarded to the athletes who performed the next day.
Then the competition will be completed where the closing ceremony will be held at the Stade de France on Sunday 8th September 2024.
About two million tickets have been sold for the tournament so far, and there are currently 500,000 tickets that have not been purchased. After the success of the Olympic Games that ended in Paris, the city authorities said that this is just the beginning.
The Paris Games will feature female athletes and teams that have never been seen in a Paralympic Games.
And it will be shown on television channels in many regions with unprecedented numbers.
France has never hosted the Summer Paralympics, although it did host the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville.
Who are the British players who can win?
Bayanan hoto, Sarah Storey first represented Britain at a Paralympic Games in 1992215 athletes will represent Great Britain in the Paralympic Games in Paris in 19 games – which is a slight reduction on the 227 who competed in the Tokyo Games – where there were 116 men and 99 women.
The oldest member of the British team is Jeanette Chippington, a rower who is 54 years old. She first represented Great Britain at the Seoul Games in 1988.
The youngest is Iona Winnifrith, a swimmer, who is 13 years old, and there is table tennis player Bly Twomey, who is 14 years old.
The one who is at the forefront of those who are expected to win the gold medal for Great Britain, is Sarah Storey, who this will be the ninth competition that she will attend, where she expects her gold medals to reach 19.
The 46-year-old will participate in the cycling competition.
Kadeena Cox and Jody Cundy are also expected to perform, while Hannah Cockroft is expected to continue her dominance in the 100m and 800m and add to her gold medal haul. in the Paralympic Games to seven.
Sammi Kinghorn is also among those who are expected to win gold for Great Britain, as Will Bailey will try to win the table tennis championship, as he did in Rio 2016.
Swimmer Alice Tai returns to action after missing the Tokyo Games due to illness and having her right leg amputated last year, while archer Jodie Grinham will be up against each other. two of the 28 week when she will compete in Paris on Friday.
Wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett, a 30-time Grand Slam champion, will try to win his Paralympic gold medal for the first time.
In the women’s Paralympic race, Lauren Steadman and Claire Cashmore, who are from the same school, will compete again for the gold medal after competing in the 2020 Tokyo Games, which Steadman won.
The hostess will continue to entertain
Image caption Athletes Nantenin Keita and Alexis Hanquinquant will hold the Redemption flag during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic GamesAfter the Olympic Games, where France was the fifth in the list of those who won the most medals, the country will want to continue this effort in this competition for the disabled also in the field of performance and the beauty of the competition.
Among those who the country expects to win gold medals is Alexis Hanquinquant, among those who will hold the country’s flag during the opening ceremony of the tournament.
How about the rest of the world?
Image caption Petrucio Ferreira won the 2023 and 2024 World Championships gold medal in the 100mAmong the world athletes who will compete in the Paralympic Games in Paris, there is Petrucio Ferreira of Brazil who will want to keep his 100 meter crown. The record he set is to complete the race in 10.29 seconds.
There is Markus Rehm, of Germany who will be looking to win the Paralympics title for the fourth time.
There is also Valentina Petrillo, who will be the first openly transgender person to participate in the Paralympic Games, as she has been selected to represent Italy in the visually impaired women’s competition.
Petrillo, who transitioned in 2019 and will compete in the 200m and 400m races, told the BBC that her entry into the race was an important sign of her involvement in social media.
But in 2021, more than 30 female athletes signed a petition sent to the president of the Italian Athletics Federation and the Ministry of Equality in Sports, challenging Petrillo’s right to enter the women’s race.
Just like the Olympics that have been completed in this competition also for the disabled, Russia and its friend Belarus were prevented from participating in the competition because of the war in Ukraine.
However, there are some players from both countries who were allowed to participate in the competition as our foreigners – they are players who have been proven not to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.
There are also eight players representing the Paralympic team from the world’s runners.
Zakia Khudadadi will compete in taekwondo wrestling on the first day of the tournament – Thursday. The player who was born in Afghanistan, represented her country in the Tokyo tournament after she was successfully evacuated from the country safely before the tournament.
For the first time, three countries that have never participated in the Paralympic Games – Eritrea, Kiribati and Kosovo will be represented this time.
