PARALYMPIC AND PARA SPORTS NEWS

@Paralympics TikTok breaks the 4 million follower barrier
The account has generated more than 1.8 billion video views in four years

Jason Smyth shares excitement for Paris 2024
The six-time Paralympic champion reflects on his career and shares what it takes to top the podium at the Games

Get to know the Paris 2024 Paralympic venues
Blind football at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, Para equestrian in the Chateau de Versailles gardens – the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will shine throughout the “City of Light” when the Games open on 28 August

Braunschweig and Routliffe, the Paralympic and Olympic siblings
Canada’s Tess Routliffe and Germany’s Malte Braunschweig will be competing in the Paralympics weeks after their siblings Erin Routliffe and Ole Braunschweig took part in the Olympics in the French capital

Paralympic legend Hess hopes Paris 2024 will be ‘celebration of sport’
As we reach one month to go until the Paris 2024 Paralympics, 20-time Para swimming champion Beatrice Hess shares her excitement and expectations for the first Games in her home country

The day Natalie du Toit made Olympic history
Thirteen-time Paralympic champion is the first leg amputee swimmer ever to compete in the Olympic Games in the women's 10km open water race at Beijing 2008
Karoly Takacs, the Para athlete who achieved Olympic glory
Hungarian made history with two gold medals in pistol shooting at the London 1948 and Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games

Ones to Watch in wheelchair tennis
The 10 names you should be looking out for at the Paris 2024 Paralympics

World leaders learn more about Para sport’s impact ahead of Paris 2024
IPC President Andrew Parsons and Paralympian Ileana Rodriguez were both speakers at the Sports for Sustainable Development Summit in Paris, France

‘I just bloody loved it’: Dylan Alcott looks back on a career that changed Para sport
Dylan Alcott, the four-time Paralympic champion in wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball, reflects on his role in elevating the Games to headline status