Stay: Paralympics set for launch in Paris Opening Ceremony

We have now slightly below three quarters of an hour till issues kick off in Paris.

Are you getting excited? What’s your favorite Paralympic sport, or athlete?

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Whether or not that is your first time to comply with a Paralympics, or your third, or your twelfth, it is all the time good to have a little bit of an thought of some Aussies to maintain a watch out for in the course of the Video games.

Australia is sending 160 Paralympians to compete in Paris this 12 months, together with 61 athletes who will make their Paralympics debut.

ABC’s Henry Hanson has executed a number of the give you the results you want, together with his information to a number of the massive names on the Aussie staff in athletics and swimming.

Australia’s flag-bearers are para-swimmer Brenden Corridor, who’s competing in his fifth Paralympics, and wheelchair racing star Madison de Rozario, who gained two gold and one bronze in Tokyo and is up for the marathon (as defending champion), the 1500m and the 5000m occasions.

Similar to the Olympics, para-swimming normally gives a sizeable chunk of Australia’s medal success on the Paralympics.

Rowan Crothers is a shot at changing into the quickest para-swimmer  of all time, trying to break 50 seconds for the 100m freestyle within the S10 class (extra on lessons or classifications shortly).

Debutant Alexa Leary solely took up para-swimming in 2021 after a restoration from a biking accident that required 100 days in hospital. She already holds one world title and is a giant probability so as to add Paralympic medals in Paris.

There are lots of Australian names to observe for in observe and subject, together with lengthy jumper Vanessa Low and sprinter James Turner. 

One of many youngest stars to observe is 16-year-old lengthy jumper and 400m runner, Telaya Blacksmith — the Warlpiri lady is certainly one of 4 First Nations Paralympians within the staff for Paris. 

To seek out out extra in regards to the Aussies to observe, learn Henry’s function beneath:

The check occasion (the Olympics) is over — now it is time for the Video games to start!

We return to Paris for the Paralympic Video games, which get beneath manner very shortly in “La Ville Lumière” (the Metropolis of Mild).

Over 11 days of competitors we are going to get to witness world-class competitors and see Australian athletes in motion in a spread of sports activities.

Some acquainted names will return, and a few new names will little question burst onto the scene.

However first we’ve to go to the streets of Paris for the Opening Ceremony, which can see the cauldron lit and the formal begin of the seventeenth Paralympic Video games.

I am Andrew McGarry, and I am delighted to deliver you all of the motion.