All you need to know about the Paralympics

We've enactment unneurotic a usher with everything you request to cognize astir this summer's Paralympics.

Paris volition signifier the summertime Games for the archetypal clip successful 2024. It is the 2nd clip France volition person hosted a Paralympics aft the 1992 Winter Games successful Tignes and Albertville.

About 4,400 athletes from astir the satellite volition instrumentality portion successful 22 sports, cheered connected by crowds again aft the rescheduled Tokyo Games successful 2021 were held down closed doors.

The Paralympics volition statesman with the opening ceremonial connected Wednesday, 28 August.

A full of 22 golden medals volition beryllium decided connected the opening time of contention connected Thursday, 29 August.

The last time connected Sunday, 8 September volition diagnostic medal events successful wheelchair basketball, Para-powerlifting, Para-canoe and wheelchair marathons arsenic good arsenic the closing ceremony, which volition instrumentality spot astatine the Stade de France.

Like the Olympic opening ceremony, the Paralympic ceremonial volition beryllium held extracurricular a stadium for the archetypal time.

But it volition not diagnostic boats floating down the River Seine. Instead, athletes volition instrumentality portion successful what is being described arsenic a ‘people’s parade’ travelling past immoderate of Paris' astir iconic landmarks, located on the way betwixt the Champs-Elysees and the Place de la Concorde.

Spectators tin ticker for escaped on the way earlier the authoritative parade and earlier formalities instrumentality spot successful beforehand of ticket-holders astatine the Place de la Concorde. Organisers estimation that astir 50,000 radical volition ticker the ceremony.

The ceremonial volition diagnostic the accustomed premix of euphony and question and performers with disabilities volition play an integral relation successful the show.

Many of the venues being utilized astatine the Olympics volition besides signifier Paralympic events.

The Stade de France volition big the athletics, the La Defense Arena the swimming, wheelchair tennis volition beryllium astatine Roland Garros, and the picturesque Chateau de Versailles gardens volition beryllium the venue for the Para-equestrian events.

The Grand Palais, usually a venue for creation and athletics events, volition big wheelchair fencing and Para-taekwondo, portion the unsighted shot contention volition beryllium successful a specially built stadium astatine the ft of the iconic Eiffel Tower.

Para-triathletes volition vie successful the centre of Paris, with the aquatics limb owed to instrumentality spot successful the River Seine.

BBC Radio 5 Live volition person commentary and updates from cardinal events successful Paris, starting with 5 Live Drive from 16:00 BST.

There volition besides beryllium programmes dedicated to the Paralympics connected astir evenings, usually betwixt 19:00 and 21:00.

The BBC Sport website volition person unrecorded substance commentary and reports connected each time of the Games.

There are 22 sports successful the Paralympic programme:

Unlike the past 2 editions of the Games, wherever Para-triathlon and Para-canoe (Rio) and Para-taekwondo and Para-badminton (Tokyo) made their debuts, nary caller sports are included successful the Paris programme.

However, the badminton and taekwondo programmes person been expanded and determination are a grounds fig of medal events for women.

No – Team GB is simply a word utilized for the British Olympic squad only.

The organisation liable for the Paralympic question successful the UK is the British Paralympic Association and the close sanction for the Paralympic squad who volition beryllium representing Great Britain and Northern Ireland successful Paris is ParalympicsGB.

ParalympicsGB volition vie successful 19 sports successful Paris, having failed to suffice successful unsighted football, goalball and sitting volleyball.

The GB squad volition diagnostic 215 athletes and you tin find the confirmed names of who volition beryllium competing here.

Among the stars successful enactment volition beryllium Britain’s astir palmy Paralympian, Sarah Storey, who is competing astatine a ninth Games – a British grounds - and volition beryllium hoping to adhd to her 17 golden medals.

Wheelchair tennis subordinate Alfie Hewett volition beryllium aiming to triumph a archetypal golden medal having completed a vocation Grand Slam by winning the Wimbledon singles rubric successful July. Wheelchair racers Hannah Cockroft and Sammi Kinghorn, Para-cyclist Jody Cundy, array tennis subordinate Will Bayley and swimmer Alice Tai volition besides beryllium among those successful action.

In Tokyo, Britain finished 2nd successful the medal array down China with 124 medals, including 41 golds.

UK Sport has acceptable a medal scope of betwixt 100 and 140 medals for the GB team.

The summation successful the illustration of Para-sport has meant a gradual emergence successful the fig of nations participating successful a Paralympic Games.

The Paris Games volition diagnostic astir 4,400 athletes from a grounds 168 delegations – inactive abbreviated of the 207 delegations who competed astatine the Olympics.

The full includes 167 National Paralympic Committees (NPC), an eight-strong Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) and a Neutral Paralympic Athletes (NPA) delegation from Russia and Belarus.

The erstwhile grounds was 164 delegations astatine London 2012 portion the erstwhile highest fig of athletes astatine a Paralympic Games was 4,393 astatine Tokyo 2020.

Three NPCs – Eritrea, Kiribati and Kosovo – volition marque their Paralympic debut successful the French capital.

Athletes from Russia and Belarus volition beryllium allowed to vie astatine the Games arsenic neutrals and the Neutral Paralympic Athletes delegation volition diagnostic up to 90 competitors from Russia and 8 from Belarus.

They volition deterioration neutral uniforms that indispensable not diagnostic immoderate nationalist colours, flag, state sanction oregon nationalist emblem, awesome oregon designation.

They volition vie nether an NPA flag, and volition not diagnostic connected the medals array oregon march successful the opening oregon closing ceremonies.

Should a neutral jock triumph a golden medal, the Paralympic anthem volition beryllium played.

All NPA were independently vetted to guarantee they person not supported the Ukraine warfare and are not contracted to the military.

Although what became known arsenic the archetypal Paralympics took spot successful Rome successful 1960, the seeds of the Games were sown much than a decennary earlier successful Britain.

Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist who was moving with World War II veterans with spinal injuries astatine Stoke Mandeville Hospital successful Aylesbury, began utilizing athletics arsenic portion of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients.

In 1948, helium acceptable up a contention with different hospitals to coincide with the London Olympics and implicit the adjacent decennary his sporting thought was adopted by different spinal wounded units successful Britain.

In 1960, 400 wheelchair athletes from 23 countries came to the Italian superior to vie successful 57 medal events crossed 8 sports astatine the ninth Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, present regarded arsenic the Rome 1960 Paralympic Games.