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- Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Set to Commence with Opening Ceremony at Iconic Champs-Elysees Venue
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Set to Commence with Opening Ceremony at Iconic Champs-Elysees Venue
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The 2024 Paris Paralympics have begun with a grand opening ceremony at Place de la Concorde, marking the first time the event has been held in the French capital. The ceremony, which took place on August 28, featured a new generation of Paralympians alongside seasoned veterans competing in various sports.
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As our ambition is to be perceived and understood as the most transformational sport event on the planet, by having this atmosphere, it's important.
There will be a before Paris and after Paris for the Paralympic movement.
This is one of the key expectations we have around Paris 2024; we believe that we need people with disability to be put back on the global agenda.
We do believe people with disability have been left behind. There is very little debate about persons with disability.
This is in line with the universal accessibility standards required for new urban developments.
Public squares, streets, sidewalks and crosswalks were designed in such a way that wheelchair users can use them without any problems.
What makes you revolutionaries is that, when they told you 'no', you continued.
Putting Paralympic athletes in the heart of the city is already a political marker in the sense that the city is not sufficiently adapted to every handicapped person.
Because when the sport starts, we will no longer see men and women with a disability, we will see you: we will see champions.
If the Olympic and Paralympic Games are to send out messages of peace, then an aggressor who invades another country and causes death and destruction there must not be given the opportunity to compete alongside Ukrainian athletes.
You want to represent yourself, make your parents proud and, of course, your country.
I also see it as an ambassadorial activity, as a role model for other people. That's why it's even more important for me to be able to represent Germany and our sport at the Games.
The media rush is getting bigger and bigger, and the questions in interviews are becoming more and more universal.
It's no longer just about a person's disability, but increasingly about the person, the character, the motivation.
We are at a higher level than a few years ago.
We've got some monstrous iconic sites, and we're going to get an eyeful.
Paris 2024 Paralympics Games
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sources
- 1.DW News
- 2.France 24
- 3.Al Jazeera
- 4.CNN
- 5.The Times
- 6.CTV News
- 7.BBC
- 8.Agence France-Presse
- 9.Associated Press
- 10.Sunday Times
- 11.Times
perspectives
countries
- 1.Barbados
- 2.Brazil
- 3.Belarus
- 4.China
- 5.Germany
- 6.Egypt
- 7.France
- 8.United Kingdom
- 9.Greece
- 10.Iran, Islamic Republic of
- 11.Kenya
- 12.Myanmar
organizations
- 1.International Paralympic Committee
- 2.Bookingcom
- 3.German Disabled Sports Association
- 4.International Olympic Committee
- 5.Louvre Museum
- 6.New York Herald Tribune
- 7.Patrouille de France
- 8.Refugee Paralympic Team
persons
- 1.Andrew Parsons
- 2.Thomas Jolly
- 3.Tony Estanguet
- 4.Alexis Hanquinquant
- 5.Ella Maclean-Howell
- 6.Emmanuel Macron
- 7.Michaël Jérémiasz
- 8.Nantenin Keïta
- 9.Amelie Oudea-Castera
- 10.Arnaud Assoumani
- 11.Charles Antoine Kouakou
- 12.Charles de Gaulle