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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."
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,
Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said in his speech 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,
said Thomas Jolly, artistic director of the Paris 2024 ceremonies 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,
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,
said Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 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,
Jolly said earlier this week At Paris 2024, it’s time we set the record straight.”
Craig Spence, chief brand and communications officer at the International Paralympic Committee, said We know we will continue to sell tickets over the next days, probably until the end of the Games,
Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said Today, the number of tickets sold will certainly surpass the Rio numbers,
IPC spokesperson Craig Spence said Over two million tickets have already been sold for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, including one million in just one month,
Paris 2024 said in a statement