Paris 2024: free events and initiations for Paralympic Day in Paris

With the success of the Olympic Days, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee is organizing its second Paralympic Day, on October 8, 2023, at Place de la République. With less than a year to go before the Paralympic Games, which kick off on August 28, 2024, it's high time to showcase and celebrate Paralympic athletes and their sports to the general public, during a festive, free day accessible to all!

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It's an opportunity to meet around a hundred Paralympic athletes from the French team and try out their many disciplines, whether you're able-bodied or disabled. The day also aims to encourage disabled people to take up sport. On the program: concerts and shows, but above all sporting demonstrations and performances, coaching and tests in a dozen Paralympic sports.

An inclusive skatepark at the Palais de Tokyo for Paralympic Day
To mark Paralympic Day, the Palais de Tokyo is hosting a traveling skatepark to celebrate the Paris 2024 Games, inviting all riders, apprentices and regulars alike, able-bodied and disabled alike, to come and try out the space, before it moves to Place de la République. [Read more]

In two years' time, a number of venues in Paris and the surrounding region will be hosting Paralympic disciplines: the Champ-de-Mars with cecifoot, the Invalides with para-archery, the Grand Palais with wheelchair fencing and para-taekwondo, the Château de Versailles with para-equestrianism, and the Vaires-sur-Marne nautical base for para-canoeing, on the same sites as the Olympic Games.

And Paralympic Day is organized the day before the opening of the Paralympic Gamesticket office, so it's the ideal opportunity to discover the para-sports you'd like to attend during the Games!

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As Paris prepares to host the Olympic Games in 2024 from July 26 to August 11, we bring you a quick roundup of the essential news and info you need to know before the big event. From ticketing to the Olympic Village, from venues to history, find out what's on tap as we get closer. [Read more]