PARIS 2024 NEWS
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Tough training gives Niang his football focus
France’s blind football captain in peak condition for medal hopes at home Paralympic Games
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Ones to Watch for Para badminton
The ten names you should be looking out for when the next Paralympics kick off in France this summer
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Raimundo ‘Nonato’ Mendes turns passion into Paralympic titles
Brazil’s guitar-playing, worldie-scoring blind football star Nonato is aiming for a fourth gold medal at the Paris 2024 Games. He reflects on turning his passion into Paralympic titles
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Paris 2024: Snisla’s meteoric rise in blind football
The breakout star of the Moroccan blind football team talks training, Tokyo 2020 and his plans for Paris as we count down to the next Paralympic Games.
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Paris 2024: Introduction to blind football
All you need to know about the sport, which has featured at the Paralympics since 2004
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Peru’s Pilar Jauregui Cancino targets first Paralympic medal
Pilar Jauregui aims for her first Paralympic medal at Paris 2024
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Introduction to Para badminton
All you need to know about the exciting sport that will be staged at the Paralympics for the second time
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Paris 2024: Ones to Watch for Para athletics
The ten names you should be looking out for in Para athletics when the next Paralympics kick off in France this summer
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Leani Ratri Oktila aims for golden ‘double double’
After winning two gold medals at Tokyo 2020, the Indonesian Para badminton star hopes to complete the set at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games - and also see the Eiffel Tower
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Paris 2024: Martina Caironi’s words of wisdom
Italy’s Para athletics icon talks medals, memories and milestones ahead of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games