Best wishes to our Paralympic team. As our contingent sets out to win glory for Bharat at the Paris Paralympics 2024, I extend my heartiest best wishes to them."
Today’s Doodle celebrates the 2024 Paralympic Games with a revival of our Most Searched Playground, a search-and-find game featuring 20 of the most searched sports, French icons, and more. A few extra surprises are also hidden around this Playground, so stay curious as you explore!"
To play, simply look around the Playground to spot the hidden items that are listed in the tiles. If you want a little help finding an item, click the tile for a hint. The most searched items include sports played in and out of the Games, French favorites, and even some Greek mythology that recalls the (very) early days of the Games."
The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will show what persons with disabilities can achieve at the highest level when the barriers to succeed are removed,
Dear athletes, welcome to the country of love and revolution. Rest assured, tonight, no Storming of the Bastille, no guillotine, because tonight the most beautiful revolution starts – the Paralympic revolution,
That is why 225 years on from when Place de la Concorde was central to the French Revolution, I hope that Paris 2024 starts a Paralympic revolution — the inclusive revolution,
These Paralympians are not here to participate,
I am truly honoured to be standing here today, as a Paralympian and a member of the astronaut reserve with a physical disability,
I know it’s Channel 4 but is it really impossible to show the Paralympics opening ceremony without interruptions from adverts?
With every new step of my journey, I am proud to be challenging preconceptions around the professional roles in which we should expect to see people with physical disabilities
The aim of this ceremony is to change the way we look at people with disabilities, and to oppose all preconceived opinions on these issues, but not in a vain and sterile opposition,
Every person with a disability deserves the opportunity to thrive and live life free from barriers, free from discrimination and free from marginalisation,
At a time of growing global conflict, increasing hate, and rising exclusion, let sport be the social glue that brings us together,
I often find that words are worthless and that images, or the situations they illustrate, are much more valuable.”
Living together better starts with mutual consideration ... then we can repair, reconcile, adapt and move forward together better.”
This ceremony at the heart of the city is a strong symbol illustrating our ambition to capitalise on our country hosting its first-ever Paralympic Games to position the issue of inclusion for people with disabilities at the heart of our society,
This is one of the key expectations we have around Paris 2024; we believe that we need people with disability to be put back on the global agenda,
Putting Paralympic athletes in the heart of the city is already a political marker in the sense that the city is not sufficiently adapted to every handicapped person,
At Paris 2024, it’s time we set the record straight.”
We know we will continue to sell tickets over the next days, probably until the end of the Games,