PARIS 2024 NEWS
"Rage to win" high among French players after becoming European champions
One month after their victory at the European Championships, the French team is training hard to win a gold medal in two years on home soil
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Paris 2024 reveals session-by-session competition schedule
The Paris 2024 schedule will have athletes winning medals from Day 1 and two busy weekends packed with a variety of sports
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Paralympians in the spotlight as Paris 2024 celebrates Olympic Day
The area near Stade de France was transformed into an open-air playground as Olympic Day participants got to try out 30 Olympic sports as well as wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and boccia
IPC publishes Paris 2024 qualification regulations for 10 sports
The first edition of the qualification regulations covers 10 of the 22 Para sports on the Paris 2024 Paralympics Games programme
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Behind the scenes of the Paris 2024 handover dance one year since its making
One week, 128 dancers, nine wheelchairs, sign language and a bionic arm: Learn the story behind the dance that stunned the world
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Tax break in France for Para sport ahead of Paris 2024
VAT on range of sport equipment for persons with disabilities reduced to 5.5%
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Paralympic champion Bourdonnaye appointed as Paris 2024 Table Tennis Sport Manager
Bourdonnaye is one of the most successful table tennis players ever with three Paralympic golds and three World titles
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France Télévisions is official broadcaster for Paris 2024
• All sports will be captured and broadcast live, for the first time in the history of the Paralympic Games, with free access to 300 hours of live coverage
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Medal Events Programme and Athletes Quotas announced
The Games will include a record 235 medal events for women, eight more than at Tokyo 2020
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Monnaie de Paris create coins to commemorate Paris 2024
Colourful Olympic and Paralympic emblem medallions