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The Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) (French: Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024) is the organising committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics which were held in Paris, France. Tony Estanguet serves as president of the committee.
The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de Paris 2024), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place on the evening of 28 August 2024 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.It was the first time that a Paralympic Games opening ceremony had been held outside of a stadium. [3]
Long before the Paralympic Games, American gymnast George Eyser, who had a wooden leg, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and won three gold medals, two silver and a bronze, including a gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard.
France participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, and has taken part in every edition of the Summer and Winter Paralympics since then.France was the host country of the 1992 Winter Paralympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux Olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe olympiade de l'ère moderne) and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July.
The men's singles SU5 tournament at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in France are currently taking place between 29 August and 2 September 2024 at Arena Porte de La Chapelle. [ 1 ] Classification
Trischa Zorn (born June 1, 1964, in Orange, California) [1] is an American Paralympic swimmer.Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12, and SM12 disability categories). [1]