Fifteen medals for Belgium? An ambitious but not impossible goal

Fifteen medals for Belgium? An ambitious but not impossible goal
Fifteen
      medals
      for
      Belgium?
      An
      ambitious
      but
      not
      impossible
      goal

The Belgian Paralympic Committee has set the bar quite high, saying it hopes to do as well as the fifteen medals brought back from Tokyo in 2021.


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By Vincent Josephy

Published on 08/28/2024 at 6:56 p.m.
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IIt is always difficult and delicate to get lost in projections regarding the chances of Belgian medals during these Paralympic Games which begin sportingly this Thursday morning with the swimmer Sam Visser (400m freestyle heats from 9:30 a.m.) and which will end with the marathon in which Martin Clobert will participate, on Sunday September 8.

However, the Belgian Paralympic Committee has set the bar quite high, saying it hopes to do as well as the fifteen medals brought back from Tokyo. “Or even better, especially if some athletes who already won medals three years ago in Japan improve the colour of their metal,” said Olek Kazimirowski, the Belgian chef de mission in the French capital.



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