Where to look at the Paris Paralympics and all the pieces else it’s essential know | EUROtoday

We noticed a extra conventional Opening Ceremony than the Olympic Games, with the Eiffel Tower lit as a backdrop topped by a wonderful sundown.

The seventeenth Summer Paralympic Games started with a parade of 168 delegations alongside the Champs-Elysées, ending in La Place de la Concorde.

It was easy, highly effective and classical, witnessed by 65,000 seated within the largest and most historic sq. within the capital of France.

The Closing Ceremony is on Sunday, September 8 at 8pm BST.

Channel 4 has unique dwell tv protection within the UK with greater than 1,300 hours of protection scheduled. You can even watch by way of its on-line streaming service or on Channel 4’s YouTube channel. The BBC may have a night highlights present devoted to the Paralympics most evenings.

There are 22 sports activities on the Paralympics with a complete of 549 gold medals up for grabs. Last day out in Tokyo, ParalympicsGB completed second within the medal desk behind China. The full record of sports activities is as follows:

• Blind soccer
• Bowl
• Goalball
• Para-archery
• Para-athletics
• Para-badminton
• Para-canoe
• Para-cycling
• Para-equestrian
• Para-judo
• Para-powerlifting
• Para-rowing
• Para-swimming
• Para-table tennis
• Para-Taekwondo
• Para-triathlon
• Shooting Para-sport
• Sitting volleyball
• Wheelchair basketball
• Wheelchair fencing
• Wheelchair rugby
• Wheelchair tennis

ParalympicsGB has taken round 220 Paralympians to Paris, with blind soccer, goalball and sitting volleyball the one sports activities out of the 22 to don’t have any British involvement. Athletes to look at embrace Hollie Arnold within the para athletics; Matt Bush in taekwondo; Rachel Choong in badminton; Hannah Cockroft within the para athletics; Funmi Oduwaiye within the para athletics; David Smith in boccia; Claire Taggart in boccia; Iona Winnifrith in swimming and Thomas Young within the para athletics.

You can even learn our information to the 25 British athletes to look at in Paris.