The back story is important context but there is not a single athlete at Paris 2024 who would allow you to define them by their disability
It is just over 900 days since the Winter Games in Beijing, staged a week after the Russian invasion of Ukraine with hollow talk of how sport is the most sustainable way to foster peace.
British canoeist Jeanette Chippington made her Paralympic debut 36 years ago in Seoul, while her team-mate, swimmer Iona Winnifrith, was not even born at the time of London 2012. Wednesday night’s opening ceremony was held on the Place de la Concorde, where Marie Antoinette met her fate at the guillotine. If you tell Hannah Cockroft she is courageous, she would take your head clean off. Call fencer Piers Gilliver brave and you may just find yourself impaled on the sharp end of his epée.by UK Sport – thanks to nearly £70m of pivotal National Lottery funding – will be achieved by overcoming anything other than the opposition.
According to the International Paralympic Committee, people with disabilities make up about 15 per cent of the global population, numbering 1.2bn, the largest marginalised group in the world. It is also – according to the World Report on Disability – a number that is sadly increasing.
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