After a shocking Olympics in Paris, there’s nonetheless extra motion to come back with the Paralympics simply across the nook, giving Workforce GB lots extra probabilities to win medals.
Workforce GB has an amazing file within the Paralympics, ending second within the medal desk at Tokyo 2020 – selecting up 41 golds, 38 silvers and 45 bronze medals.
Here’s what you’ll be able to count on and look out for in 2024.
Hannah Cockroft shall be hoping for one more gold in para athletics
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When do the Paralympics begin?
The opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Paralympics shall be held on Wednesday August 28, 2024.
The motion will get beneath approach the subsequent day, on Thursday, August 29, with medals to be awarded proper from the off.
Motion will happen over 10 days till the closing ceremony on Sunday, September 8.
Not like on the Olympics, there shall be athletics and swimming all through the entire video games.
The place to look at the Paralympics?
Sure, the reside motion may be watched on Channel 4, which has promised greater than 1,300 hours of protection scheduled.
Not like on the Olympics, the place the BBC had solely restricted broadcasting, Channel 4 shall be exhibiting each occasion with as much as 18 streams accessible on-line.
There may even be a highlights present.
Goalball on the Paralympics
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Which sports activities are performed on the Paralympics?
Twenty-two sports activities will characteristic on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games, in 23 disciplines and a complete of 549 occasions distributed throughout 269 periods (morning, afternoon and night).
Among the many occasions are some which can be included within the Olympics and others which can be distinctive to the Paralympics equivalent to goalball, boccia and sitting volleyball.
Every sport will break down into subcategories giving athletes the prospect to compete on equal phrases with those that have an identical impairment. The sports activities are as follows.
Workforce GB’s David Smith takes half in boccia
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Can you continue to get tickets?
Morning athletics periods are on sale for as little as €15 and there’s additionally a sensible choice of seats for different common sports activities equivalent to wheelchair basketball.
As ever, some occasions may be loved without cost once they move via town centre – equivalent to para biking highway races and the para athletics marathon.
