PARIS 2024 NEWS

Wheelchair fencing and Para equestrian start on Day 6
Two sports – wheelchair fencing and Para equestrian – join the action on day six, one day before Italian wheelchair fencing icon Bebe Vio takes to the spotlight

7-time Paralympian Bywater excited by wheelchair basketball growth
British wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater is competing in his seventh Paralympic Games, and is excited to see the game growing

Japan’s wheelchair rugby team gets fairytale ending
Japan won gold in the wheelchair rugby tournament after beating the USA 48-41 at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Top medal highlights from Day 5
Brazil's Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Araujo completed his mission of winning three Para swimming golds at one Games

From a Ukrainian orphanage to the Paralympic stage
Meet Oksana Kozyna and Oleksandr Chyrkov - two Para badminton players who have shared a remarkable journey to the Paris 2024 Games and owe it all to the teacher cheering them on in the stands

Rising Phoenix rapper meets ' his inspiration' Matt Stutzman
Emmy Award-winner George Doman spoke with Paris 2024 archery champion Matt Stutzman, who inspired Doman's lyrics for the title track of Paralympic Netflix documentary 'Rising Phoenix'

France goes wild for Hanquinquant’s gold
Hosts celebrate double Para triathlon glory with Alexis Hanquinquant and Jules Ribstein bagging Paralympic titles

Para triathlete Lauren Parker ‘is unbreakable’
Australian Lauren Parker netted gold in the Para triathlon and is aiming for a hat trick

Can Italy's wheelchair fencing star Bebe Vio make it a hat trick?
After winning wheelchair fencing gold in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, Italy's Bebe Vio comes into Paris hoping for three in a row

Big moments on Day 5
First African nation medal in badminton - Olympic or Paralympic Games - goes to Nigeria's Mariam Eniola Bolaji