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First delegations arrive at Paris Paralympics athletes' village
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8/22/2024
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The Olympic Village just north of Paris in Saint-Denis is coming back to life.
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Delegations from across the globe began arriving Wednesday to compete in the
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Paralympic Games with athletes moving into a newly refurbished Paralympic
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Village adapted to meet their specific needs.
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We also have something to do.
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We have a talent to show to the world that yes, persons with disability,
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disability is inability because if you are disabled it doesn't mean you can do
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anything for yourself, you can't do anything for your country, you can't do
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anything for the world.
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I think it will be more, more better for Paralympic
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because a lot of athletes have big story behind and I think it is very
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interesting for people.
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The Paralympic athletes will compete in 22 sports at
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many iconic venues in Paris which in some cases have also been modified to
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meet the specific needs of each event.
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That includes the beach volleyball venue at the Eiffel Tower which has been
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adapted to host the blind football competition.
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We chose not to remove the sand because it weighs 400 tons and to remove it
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would be very complicated in terms of timing so we chose to cover it over instead.
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The Paralympics will run from August 28th to September 8th and more
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than 1.7 million tickets have already been sold.
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Ten sports are nearly sold out but about 800,000 tickets are still available.
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