Sports and venues for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
The nearly 4,400 athletes will compete in events 22 sports (23 subjectsas Para cycling is divided into road and track events), which is a big increase compared to the first Paralympic Games in 1960, when only eight sports were scheduled.
In total, 16 stadiums or venueswhich were also used during the Olympic Games, will host competitions during the Paralympic Games, including the most emblematic ones, such as the Eiffel Tower Stadium (football for the blind), the Grand Palace (wheelchair fencing and Para taekwondo) and the Palace of Versailles (For equestrian).
Of the 22 sports in the program, None is new in Paris 2024. Para badminton and Para taekwondo are the newest, having debuted at the last Paralympic Games in Tokyo 2020, in 2021.
Most Paralympic sports have an equivalent in the Olympic program, but two no: the bowl and the goalballBoccia is a sport similar to pétanque, played by wheelchair athletes with motor disabilities, while goalball consists of two teams of three visually impaired players trying to score in the opposing goal.
There is only an artistic sport with judges at the Summer Paralympics: the For equestrianin the discipline of at home.
It is also one of the two sports What are they? fully mixed at the Paralympic Games, along with the wheelchair rugbyin which women play on the same teams as men (there were four women in Tokyo, including one on the Great Britain team that won gold). Boccia, which used to be a mixed sport, will introduce gender-specific events in Paris.
Sports are, naturally, adapted for athletes with disabilitiesAn example of this is the inclusion of bells on the ball in both blind football and goalball to assist players.
But did you know that the hoop height in it wheelchair basketball is from 3.05 meters or 10 feet?
If it is exactly the same that in the olympic basketball. Despite being played by wheelchair athletes with different disabilities, the basketball courtlos boards and the aro They are still of FIBA standard size.
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