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Paris 2024 review: Icons, new stars and fans elevate sport to new levels
A passionate and knowledgeable crowd provides the perfect stage to extraordinary performances from the likes of Ugo Didier, Jessica Long, Simone Barlaam and Guo Jincheng during ten days of the Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena

Athletes embrace "best Paralympics ever"
Athletes shared their experience of competing in front of a massive crowd at France's first summer Paralympic Games

IPC Reporter: I thrived in a place I once feared I wouldn’t survive
Harry De Cosemo, a UK sports reporter who has a disability, shares his experience of covering the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games for the International Paralympic Committee's website

Best Para rowing moments of Paris 2024
Jed Altschwager and Nikki Ayers became the first-ever Paralympic champions in the new mixed double sculls PR3 event

Best Para cycling moments of Paris 2024
Jetze Plat won two Para cycling road gold medals to add to a Paralympic triathlon title

Best Para badminton moments of Paris 2024
Mariam Eniola Bolaji became the first African player to win a badminton medal at either the Olympic or Paralympic Games

Paris 2024 Paralympics: Shooting Para sport day six preview
The ones to watch in the sixth day of competition at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre with mixed P4 and mixed R9 finals

Best photos of Paris 2024
Relive some of the best moments from the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in 15 stunning photographs

Ihar Boki’s unstoppable campaign in Paris
With a total of 21 gold medals, Ihar Boki became the most successful male Para swimmer at the Paralympic Games while in Paris

Paris 2024: Medeiros snatches gold in dramatic final, record show from Oluwafemiayo
Brazilian Tayana Medeiros snatches women's up to 86kg gold from China Zheng Feifei in last seconds with a Games record; Nigeria's Folashade Oluwafemiayo clinches women's over 86kg gold with world record show, while Iranians Aliakbar Gharibshahi and Ahmad Aminzadeh win men's up to 107 and over 107kg finals on the final day at La Chapelle Arena

Festival of fun brings France's first Paralympics to a close
Paris celebrates an unforgettable 10 days of competition with stunning Closing Ceremony at Stade de France

The IPC President's Closing Ceremony speech
International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons hails the record-breaking achievements of Para athletes, volunteers, fans and organisers of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

The world records that tumbled in Paris
More than 40 world records tumbled in Para athletics alone at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal moments on Day 11
Para powerlifter Oluwafemiayo breaks world record not once, but twice, to win women's over 86kg gold

Netherlands retain wheelchair basketball crown
Women’s team see off challenge from USA to reign supreme at Paris 2024 Paralympics

“Everything we dreamed of happened”
“My message to fans is a huge, enormous ‘merci beaucoup’ because after the athletes, they were the big stars of the Games,” - International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons

Paris 2024: Debrunner wins marathon to take fifth gold of the Games
Swiss wheelchair racer becomes most successful Para athletics athlete of this year's Paralympics, Hug adds more gold to Switzerland in the men's marathon T54 as Morocco's Fatima El Idrissi sets new world record and Tunisia's Wajdi Boukhili beats three-time champion Chentouf, respectively in the women's and men's T12

'Nothing about us without us' say IPC Comms team
30 per cent of the IPC Comms team at Paris 2024 recognise themselves as persons with disability

Paralympians propose in the ‘City of Love’
Happy tears flowed as Paralympians chose Paris to become engaged

Hug and Debrunner cement Swiss Para marathon dominance
Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner took gold for Switzerland to bring the Paris 2024 Para athletics to a close