Opening of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris: where to watch, route
After the celebration of the day 2024 Olympic Games in ParisToday the French capital is once again dressing up to host Paralympic Games 2024. The seventeenth edition begins with this Wednesday, August 28With Opening ceremony you can follow this Live on La 1 and RTVE Play from 20:00.. New event that will feature 150 Spanish athletes and offers a new opportunity to highlight inclusion and diversity. Twelve days to enjoy another great event in world sport until next September 8th.
This year in total 22 sports which will be deployed in 17 locations throughout the City of Light and will have as nerve centers Palace of Versailles or Disabled people. And they repeat the emblem and talisman used for them, the latter being Friga with a prosthetic leg.
The Spanish team consists of 150 athletes, eleven of whom are support athletes. Their team is mostly men and only 54 women. The Spanish team will aim to surpass the 36 medals won three years ago at the Tokyo Games.
What will be the parade route?
The opening ceremony will begin today at Place de la Concordewith a parade through Champs Elysees which will be one of the greatest moments of the Games. At 8:00 p.m. local time. 4,400 Paralympic athletes from 184 delegations. to celebrate the start of 11 days of competition, which will begin on August 29. The closing ceremony will take place on September 8 at the Stade de France. The philosophy will be similar to the Olympic competitions that took place a few days ago.
The Champs-Elysees is preparing for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games.
Spain’s flag bearers at the Paralympic Games
We also already know flag bearers of the Spanish Paralympic team at the opening ceremony. Marta Arce Paino She will be one of the lucky ones who will carry the Spanish flag in Paris. The woman from Valladolid was born with albinism, which is associated with severe and progressive visual impairment. He has two silver medals: in Athens-2004 in the category up to 57 kg and in Beijing-2008 in the category up to 63 kg. In 2012 in London he won his last medal, bronze in the same category as four years ago.
It will accompany you Alvaro Valera Muñoz-Vargaswho competes in the Paralympic Games due to muscle atrophy in his legs. During his career as an adapted table tennis player, Alvaro has won a total of six Olympic medals, including gold in Sydney 2000, three silvers, two of them in London 2012 and two bronzes, the last one in Tokyo 2020.
Paralympics | Spain heads to Paris with high hopes