PARIS 2024 NEWS
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Paris 2024: Lucas Mazur relishing ‘once-in-a-lifetime' home Paralympics
Tokyo 2020 Para badminton champion hoping to defend title in front of French fans
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games tickets to go on sale on 9 October
Half of the 2.8 million tickets available will be priced EUR 25 or less
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Q&A with IPC President: Paris 2024 will be revolutionary
“The exchange between athletes, Parisians and spectators from around the world is going to be something electrifying”
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Paris 2024 will be most spectacular Paralympics in history, says IPC President
Andrew Parsons pays tribute to work of Organising Committee on the one-year-to-go milestone
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Excitement builds for Paris 2024 after Para triathlon test event
“It just makes you want to be there again in a year's time because it's going to be even more exciting.”
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Paris 2024 reveals the design of the Paralympic and Olympic Torch
Almost a year to go before the Paris 2024 Games, Paris 2024 presented the Torch which will carry the Paralympic and Olympic Flames
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Paralympics a 'catalyst for progress': French Minister for Persons with Disabilities
Speaking at the 2023 IPC Media and Marketing Summit, Geneviève Darrieussecq said Paris 2024 volunteers, media and athletes will be ambassadors for change
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IPC President meets French President Macron in Paris
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris to discuss the preparations and the transformational impact of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will take place between 28 August and 8 September 2024
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RMC becomes official radio partner of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
The broadcaster commits to creating digital content that educates the general French public on Para sport
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Paris 2024 torch relays called 'the Forerunners’ Relays' to celebrate historic Games
The Paralympic Torch Relay will take place in August 2024 featuring about 1,000 runners