{"id":1679711,"date":"2022-10-08T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679711"},"modified":"2022-10-08T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T17:52:57","slug":"paralympics-paris-2024-could-be-the-best-games-ever-says-committee-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paralympics-paris-2024-could-be-the-best-games-ever-says-committee-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics-Paris 2024 could be the best Games ever, says committee chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparalympics-paris-2024-could-be-the-best-games-ever-says-committee-chief%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Julien Pretot<\/p>\n<p>PARIS (Reuters) \u2013     While accessibility to all is unrealistic for 2024, the Paris Paralympic Games have the potential to be the best ever and serve as a catalyst for global change, the head of the International Paralympic Committee said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrew Parsons, visiting Paris for the first Paralympic day two years ahead of the Games on a sunbathed place de la Bastille, where thousands attended and experienced wheelchair fencing among other paralympic sports, told Reuters he is hoping Paris 2024 will help society to be more inclusive.     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that it\u2019s important to mention is that we don\u2019t expect issues of hundreds of years to be fixed with the Paralympic Games. The Paralympic Games are a catalyst,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t expect public transportation to be 100% accessible, this is unrealistic to think otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only 3% of the Paris metro stations are accessible to persons with disabilities, although the City has promised that the biggest hubs would be by the time the Paralympics start on Aug. 28, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we do want is to push accessibility and put some light into the needs of it. So that there\u2019s still be improvements when it comes to accessibility for the city and for the country. Not for the Games, but one, two, three, four years after the Games. That\u2019s the opportunity,\u201d said Parsons, who is hoping the Games will spur a shift in mentalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Games then it\u2019s up to society to keep pushing for inclusion. This is the catalyst. This is a moment that we put those questions to the French society, not only French government, but the French society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The London Paralympics is 2012 were a huge success and Parsons has no doubt Paris will do even better as \u201cthe  Paralympic movement has grown since London\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLondon was obviously an event that brought the Paralympic movement to the next level but Rio was also a very good Games when it comes to the impact on the people around the world and most probably Tokyo if it was not for the pandemic would probably have been the best Games ever,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was absolutely incredible Games without spectators we know. So I think we are on a good path, where we are getting better and better and the Games are impacting more people around the world. And Paris will be another step in that direction. It has the potential to the greatest (Paralympic) Games ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Christian Radnedge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/paralympics-paris-2024-could-be\/attachment\/beijing-2022-winter-paralympic-games\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9707L-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9707L-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) \u2013 While accessibility to all is unrealistic for 2024, the Paris Paralympic Games have the potential to be the best ever and serve as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/paralympics-paris-2024-could-be\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paralympics-paris-2024-could-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}