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Two and a fifty % weeks after the Paris Olympic Games ended, the City of Light is readied to prepare the globe’s largest event for skilled athletes with completely different electrical motor, sensory and mental specials wants and issues.
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games formally begin Wednesday with an extra artistic opening occasion together with round 4,400 skilled athletes from 182 delegations. There aren’t any watercrafts this time round, but Paralympic skilled athletes will definitely attain expertise their very personal al fresco ceremony of nations as they march alongside the Champs- Élysées from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de laConcorde There, earlier than some 65,000 viewers, they’ll take up a program guided by Thomas Jolly– the exact same man that created the opening and shutting occasions for theOlympics Here’s way more on the celebrations.
The Canadian flag will definitely be introduced by longtime Paralympians Pat Anderson and Katarina Roxon, that had been granted the honour right this moment by theCanadian Paralympic Committee
Anderson, a 45-year-old mobility gadget basketball gamer, is displaying up in his sixthGames He assisted Canada win gold in 2000, 2004 and 2012, when he racked up 34 point out defeat Australia within the final. That was the final time Canada acquired to the platform, but Anderson continues to be a principal. He racked up 23 components in a must-win certifying online game final springtime to supply his group an space in Paris.
Roxon, 31, is contending in her fifth Paralympic Games– one of the crucial ever earlier than by a Canadian females’s swimmer. She received a non-public gold medal in 2016 in Rio and included a relay bronze 3 years again in Tokyo.
Competition begins Thursday and competes 11 days, withSept 8. There will definitely be an total of 549 events in 22 varied Para sporting actions– consisting of swimming, monitor and space, biking, mobility gadget basketball, mobility gadget rugby, mobility gadget tennis, mobility gadget fence, resting volley ball, triathlon, canoe, rowing, rider, judo, goalball and boccia.
Canada despatched out 126 skilled athletes to contend in every of these sporting actions and much more. Here are some satisfying truths concerning the group:
Anderson and Roxon aren’t the only one with a a number of expertise. Like Anderson, Brent Lakatos (monitor and space), Cindy Ouellet (mobility gadget basketball) and Mike Whitehead (mobility gadget rugby) are displaying up of their sixthParalympic Games Amy Burk (goalball), Bo Hedges (mobility gadget basketball), Trevor Hirschfield (mobility gadget rugby) and Travis Murao (mobility gadget rugby) will definitely match Roxon with their fifth look. And a pointer of the hat to boccia gamer Lance Cryderman, that’s returning for his 2nd Games– 24 years after making his launching in 2000 inSydney
Bo Jackson may worth a number of of those skilled athletes. In enhancement to her 4 earlier Summer Paralympic appears in mobility gadget basketball, Ouellet likewise contended within the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games as a nordic skier. Mel Pemble, that’s anticipated to compete for the platform in her Summer Games launching in biking, likewise confirmed up within the 2018 Winter Paralympics as a towering skier previous to altering sporting actions. Two varied different Canadians in Paris are multi-sport skilled athletes. Para tennis debutant Yuka Chokyu made 3 appears in mobility gadget tennis, whereas Nathan Clement switched to Para biking after contending as a swimmer on the 2016 Games.
39 Canadians are making their Paralympic launching. That consists of 47-year-old desk tennis gamer Peter Isherwood, the earliest beginner on the group.
10 have truly received a Paralympic gold medal. They are swimmers Aurelie Rivard, Katarina Roxon and Danielle Dorris; monitor and space skilled athletes Nate Riech, Greg Stewart and Brent Lakatos; and mobility gadget basketball players Pat Anderson, Bo Hedges, Chad Jassman andTyler Miller Rivard is the chief with 5 job golds– consisting of a set in 2021 in Tokyo, the place Canada do with 5 gold and 21 full medals.
12 are multi-medallists. Lakatos blazes a path with 11 medals (1 gold, 8 silver, 2 bronze) all through 5 Paralympic Games in mobility gadget monitor events various from the 100m to the 5,000 m. He took 4 silvers in Tokyo, the place he was referred to as Canada’s flag-bearer for the closing occasion. Rivard is following with 10 medals all through 3 Games, adhered to by Anderson’s 4. Here’s way more onRivard
The earliest and youngest Canadian skilled athletes will definitely share a birthday celebration all through the Games. On Sept 2, four-time Paralympic mobility gadget fencer Ruth Sylvie Morel transforms 68 whereas beginner swimmer Reid Maxwell transforms 17.
SEE |Let’s speak Para lympICKS with CBC Sports’ Michelle Salt and Brian Hnatiw:
Let’s speak Para lympICKS with CBC Sports Michelle Salt and Brian Hnatiw.
How to view the Paralympics:
CBC’s real-time safety begins Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. ET with the opening occasion. You can view it on the CBC tv community or stream it on CBC Gem, our Paris 2024 web website and our Paris 2024 utility.
Starting Thursday, every of these program and streaming programs will definitely deliver you opponents by way of 3 day-to-day real-time packages: Petro-Canada Paris Prime, held by Scott Russell, at 2 p.m. ET; Toyota Paralympic Games Primetime, held by Russell and Stef Reid, at 8 p.m. in your neighborhood time space; and Canadian Tire Paralympics Tonight, held by Devin Heroux and Roseline Filion, at 11:30 p.m. neighborhood.
Digital safety will definitely likewise include day-to-day episodes of Rise and Stream, highlighting the must-see events and Canadians to stick to, and Hot Takes, together with conferences with skilled athletes and consultants. Both packages are available on the Paris 2024 web site and on CBC Sports’ YouTube channel, Facebook, Instagram and X. Here’s way more on CBC’s Paralympics safety.
