It is celebrated the seventeenth edition of the Summer Paralympic Games, this time in Paris 2024. They will take place from on Wednesday, August 28 through Sunday, September 8. Athletes with disabilities from all over the world gather in the French capital to compete and try to give medals to their respective countries.
These The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will bring together 4,400 of the world’s most outstanding athletes with disabilities. It is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, growing with each edition held.
Furthermore, while sport transmits and teaches, it is more than a sporting event as such. This is a unique opportunity to focus the attention of the sports and disability world. The Paralympic Games In addition to being a great sporting spectacle, they are a great source of inspiration, with the aim of promoting social change and, thus, achieving inclusive professional and sporting opportunities for people with disabilities.
They will live 12 days of competition in 18 places. Here seventeenth edition of the Paralympic Games with a total of 185 national committees participatingwith a total of 549 contention events. So, it is estimated that more than three million spectators will personally attend a new sports festival in Paris, then the recent Olympic Games. Plus of 3,000 media professionals and journalists is accredited to cover them Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Although the main characters are the athletes. A total of 150 will represent the Spanish delegation and will compete in 16 of the 22 sports of the Paralympic program: athletics, wheelchair basketball, boccia, cycling, wheelchair fencing, weightlifting, judo, swimming, canoeing, rowing, taekwondo, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, shooting, archery and triathlon.
Medal options in different disciplines vary. One of the great assets is in swimming, with great references from the team as a whole like Teresa Perales, Toni Ponce or Núria Marquesamong many others. The pool will be the main bet of the Spanish delegation, but not the only one.
Athletics (with Adiaratou Iglesias, Kim López or Héctor Cabrera, among others), table tennis (with Álvaro Valera, Jordi Morales or José Manuel Ruiz) or cycling (Ricardo Ten, Alfonso Cabello or Sergio Garrote, among others) ) They are one of the leading sports of the delegation. An attempt will be made to improve the performance developed in the past Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, where Spanish athletes added a total of 36 medals.
The judoka Martha Arce and the table tennis player Alvaro Valera will be the standard bearers of the Spanish delegation to Paris 2024. It will be the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games that there is economic parity in the event of a medal compared to their Olympic counterparts.
When will the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games be held?
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will be held between on Wednesday, August 28 and Sunday, September 8.
Where to watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on TV?
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games can be seen on RTVE, through its variety dials and platforms (TVE’s La 1, La 2, Teledeporte or RTVE Play, respectively). You can follow all the information about the event by the Mundo Deportivo website.
Source: La Verdad
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