{"id":23335,"date":"2024-09-09T07:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=23335"},"modified":"2024-09-09T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:37:06","slug":"paralympic-games-come-to-an-end-with-a-spectacular-light-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/09\/paralympic-games-come-to-an-end-with-a-spectacular-light-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympic Games come to an end with a spectacular light show"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – The Paralympic Games have come to an end with a spectacular light show and dance party capping a\u00a0final day of competition\u00a0that saw two world records fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Addressing the closing ceremony at a packed Stade de France, chief Paris 2024 organizer and former gold medal-winning canoeist Tony Estanguet said the six weeks of the Paralympics and the Olympics would remain \u201cetched in people\u2019s memories\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis summer, France had a date with history, and the country showed up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More than 4,400 athletes from 168 Paralympic delegations partied to the best of French electronic dance music during the closing ceremony despite the rain, reported Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Morocco\u2019s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the women\u2019s marathon for runners with visual impairments.<\/p>\n

El Idrissi finished the 42km (26.2 miles) course in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 36 seconds, beating the previous record by nearly six minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t running for a time, only for a medal,\u201d the 29-year-old Moroccan said.<\/p>\n

Also on the final day of competition, Nigeria\u2019s Folashade Oluwafemiayo broke her own world record in women\u2019s para powerlifting.<\/p>\n

China topped the Paralympics medal table with 94 golds, while Great Britain was second with 49 and the United States third with 36.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s athletes overcame the formidable obstacles posed by their country\u2019s war against invading Russian forces to finish in seventh place with 22 golds while France was eighth with 19.<\/p>\n

China has finished top of the medal table at every Paralympics since Athens in 2004.<\/p>\n

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The next Paralympics will take place in Los Angeles in 2028.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Despite initial fears about ticket sales, the\u00a0Paralympics\u00a0took place in mainly full stadiums, benefitting from the feel-good factor of the highly successful Olympics, which ended on August 11.<\/p>\n

Parsons said the Paris Paralympics had shown that \u201cchange starts with sport\u201d.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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