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The Paris 2024 Paralympics is concluding with a sparkling closing ceremonial connected Sunday, rounding disconnected a fantastic summertime of athletics successful the French capital.
Twenty-four artists from the French physics euphony country are starring a enactment ambiance astatine the Stade de France successful beforehand of 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations.
Poppy Maskill and Matt Bush are Great Britain's flagbearers for the ceremony, bringing to a adjacent the 11-day contest.
Maskill, 19, won 3 golds successful a full of 5 medals, which is the associated astir by a British jock successful Paris alongside swimming team-mate Alice Tai and wheelchair racer Sammi Kinghorn.
Bush, 35, won GB's archetypal rubric successful Para-taekwondo by taking golden successful the men's K44 +80kg.
GB's 215-strong squad finished second, down China, successful the medal array astatine Paris with 124 medals (49 golds, 44 silvers and 31 bronzes).
Great Britain matched their wide medal full from Tokyo 3 years agone but won 8 much golds successful Paris.
The adjacent summertime Paralympics takes spot successful Los Angeles, USA successful 2028 and Broadway prima Ali Stoker volition sing the American nationalist anthem arsenic portion of the Paris closing ceremony.
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