All you need to know about the Paris Paralympics

We've put together a guideline pinch everything you request to cognize astir this summer's Paralympics.

Paris will shape nan summertime Games for nan first clip successful 2024. It is nan 2nd clip France will person hosted a Paralympics aft nan 1992 Winter Games successful Tignes and Albertville.

About 4,400 athletes from astir nan world will return portion successful 22 sports, shouted connected by crowds again aft nan rescheduled Tokyo Games successful 2021 were held down closed doors.

The Paralympics will statesman pinch nan opening ceremonial connected Wednesday, 28 August.

A full of 22 golden medals will beryllium decided connected nan opening time of title connected Thursday, 29 August.

The last time connected Sunday, 8 September will characteristic badge events successful wheelchair basketball, Para-powerlifting, Para-canoe and wheelchair marathons arsenic good arsenic nan closing ceremony, which will return spot astatine nan Stade de France.

Like nan Olympic opening ceremony, nan Paralympic ceremonial will beryllium held extracurricular a stadium for nan first time.

But it will not characteristic boats floating down nan River Seine. Instead, athletes will return portion successful what is being described arsenic a ‘people’s parade’ travelling past immoderate of Paris' astir iconic landmarks, located on nan way betwixt nan Champs-Elysees and nan Place de la Concorde.

Spectators tin watch for free on nan way earlier nan charismatic parade and earlier formalities return spot successful beforehand of ticket-holders astatine nan Place de la Concorde. Organisers estimate that astir 50,000 group will watch nan ceremony.

The ceremonial will characteristic nan accustomed operation of euphony and activity and performers pinch disabilities will play an integral domiciled successful nan show.

Many of nan venues being utilized astatine nan Olympics will besides shape Paralympic events.

The Stade de France will big nan athletics, nan La Defense Arena nan swimming, wheelchair tennis will beryllium astatine Roland Garros, and nan picturesque Chateau de Versailles gardens will beryllium nan venue for nan Para-equestrian events.

The Grand Palais, usually a venue for creation and athletics events, will big wheelchair fencing and Para-taekwondo, while nan unsighted shot title will beryllium successful a specially built stadium astatine nan ft of nan iconic Eiffel Tower.

Para-triathletes will compete successful nan centre of Paris, pinch nan aquatics limb owed to return spot successful nan River Seine.

BBC Radio 5 Live will person commentary and updates from cardinal events successful Paris, starting pinch 5 Live Drive from 16:00 BST.

There will besides beryllium programmes dedicated to nan Paralympics connected astir evenings, usually betwixt 19:00 and 21:00.

The BBC Sport website will person unrecorded matter commentary and reports connected each time of nan Games.

There are 22 sports successful nan Paralympic programme:

Unlike nan past 2 editions of nan Games, wherever Para-triathlon and Para-canoe (Rio) and Para-taekwondo and Para-badminton (Tokyo) made their debuts, nary caller sports are included successful nan Paris programme.

However, nan badminton and taekwondo programmes person been expanded and location are a grounds number of badge events for women.

No – Team GB is simply a word utilized for nan British Olympic squad only.

The organisation responsible for nan Paralympic activity successful nan UK is nan British Paralympic Association and nan correct sanction for nan Paralympic squad who will beryllium representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland successful Paris is ParalympicsGB.

ParalympicsGB will compete successful 19 sports successful Paris, having grounded to suffice successful unsighted football, goalball and sitting volleyball.

The GB squad will characteristic 215 athletes and you tin find nan confirmed names of who will beryllium competing here.

Among nan stars successful action will beryllium Britain’s astir successful Paralympian, Sarah Storey, who is competing astatine a ninth Games – a British grounds - and will beryllium hoping to adhd to her 17 golden medals.

Wheelchair tennis subordinate Alfie Hewett will beryllium aiming to triumph a first golden badge having completed a profession Grand Slam by winning nan Wimbledon singles title successful July. Wheelchair racers Hannah Cockroft and Sammi Kinghorn, Para-cyclist Jody Cundy, array tennis subordinate Will Bayley and swimmer Alice Tai will besides beryllium among those successful action.

In Tokyo, Britain vanished 2nd successful nan badge array down China pinch 124 medals, including 41 golds.

UK Sport has group a badge scope of betwixt 100 and 140 medals for nan GB team.

The summation successful nan floor plan of Para-sport has meant a gradual emergence successful nan number of nations participating successful a Paralympic Games.

The Paris Games will characteristic astir 4,400 athletes from a grounds 168 delegations – still short of nan 207 delegations who competed astatine nan Olympics.

The full includes 167 National Paralympic Committees (NPC), an eight-strong Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) and a Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) delegation from Russia and Belarus.

The erstwhile grounds was 164 delegations astatine London 2012 while nan erstwhile highest number of athletes astatine a Paralympic Games was 4,393 astatine Tokyo 2020.

Three NPCs – Eritrea, Kiribati and Kosovo – will make their Paralympic debut successful nan French capital.

Athletes from Russia and Belarus will beryllium allowed to compete astatine nan Games arsenic neutrals and nan Neutral Paralympic Athletes delegation will characteristic up to 90 competitors from Russia and 8 from Belarus.

They will deterioration neutral uniforms that must not characteristic immoderate nationalist colours, flag, state sanction aliases nationalist emblem, awesome aliases designation.

They will compete nether an NPA flag, and will not characteristic connected nan medals array aliases march successful nan opening aliases closing ceremonies.

Should a neutral jock triumph a golden medal, nan Paralympic anthem will beryllium played.

All NPA were independently vetted to guarantee they person not supported nan Ukraine warfare and are not contracted to nan military.

Although what became known arsenic nan first Paralympics took spot successful Rome successful 1960, nan seeds of nan Games were sown much than a decade earlier successful Britain.

Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist who was moving pinch World War II veterans pinch spinal injuries astatine Stoke Mandeville Hospital successful Aylesbury, began utilizing athletics arsenic portion of nan rehabilitation programmes of his patients.

In 1948, he group up a title pinch different hospitals to coincide pinch nan London Olympics and complete nan adjacent decade his sporting thought was adopted by different spinal wounded units successful Britain.

In 1960, 400 wheelchair athletes from 23 countries came to nan Italian superior to compete successful 57 badge events crossed 8 sports astatine nan ninth Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, now regarded arsenic nan Rome 1960 Paralympic Games.