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Neutral Paralympic Athletes At The 2024 Summer Paralympics
''Neutral Paralympic Athletes'' was the name used to represent approved Russia, Russian and Belarus, Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Neutral athletes competed under a white flag featuring black lettering spelling out NPA. The flag's use was limited to TV and sports presentation graphics and during medal ceremonies. Medal wins were not recorded on the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games official medal table; further, if a neutral athlete wins a gold medal, the Paralympic anthem was played. Medalists , width=75% align=left valign=top , , style="text-align:left; width:25%; vertical-align:top;", Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics Neutral Paralympic Athletes track and field athletes achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
