Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Paralympic torch hasactually been brought from Stoke Mandeville to Paris – through the Channel Tunnel Elizabeth Hudson, Emma Smith and Alan Jewell BBC Sport in Paris Paris hasactually assured a Games to keepinmind as it gets allset to host the 2024 Paralympics. After the postponed Tokyo Games in 2021 had to be held without fans since of the Covid pandemic, and Rio 2016 was dogged by monetary concerns, the pressure is on Paris to provide an occasion to competitor or even muchbetter the London 2012 Games. Wednesday’s opening event at 19: 00 BST will be focused on the Place de la Concorde, with the veryfirst of the 549 gold medals to be granted the following day. Action will conclude with the closing event at the Stade de France on Sunday, 8 September. Nearly 2 million tickets haveactually been offered, with about 500,000 still readilyavailable. After the success of the Paris Olympics, organisers state this is just half-time. The Paris Games will function a record number of delegations and woman professionalathletes. There will likewise be tv protection in more areas than ever previously. Channel 4 will program the Games in the UK with more than 1,300 hours of live sport airing throughout Channel 4, More4, Channel 4 Streaming and Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube. BBC Radio 5 Live will have commentary and updates from secret occasions in Paris as well as committed programs on most nights. And the BBC Sport site will have live text commentary every day. “I frequently state that these will be the most incredible Paralympic Games ever, and I think it in my heart,” stated International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons. France has neverever formerly hosted a summerseason Paralympics, although it did phase the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville. Who are the GB professionalathletes to watch out for? Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Sarah Storey veryfirst represented Britain at a Paralympic Games in 1992 Great Britain are represented by 215 professionalathletes in Paris throughout 19 sports – a minor decrease on the 227 who completed in Tokyo – with 116 guys and 99 ladies. The earliest British representative is 54-year-old canoeist Jeanette Chippington, who veryfirst represented ParalympicsGB at the 1988 Games in Seoul. The youngest is swimmer Iona Winnifrith, aged 13, while 14-year-old table tennis gamer Bly Twomey is likewise part of the team. Leading the British medal hopes is Sarah Storey, contending at her ninth Games and intending to take her gold medal tally to19 The 46-year-old will function in the biking roadway race and time trial, as she focuses on roadway occasions rather than track competitors. British hopes in the velodrome consistof Kadeena Cox and Jody Cundy amongst a strong group, while in sports Hannah C
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