Key events
Some morning images from around Paris …
Preamble
Morning all and welcome to the Paralympics 2024 – day one!
As you might expect, awaiting us is a ludicrous amount of wondrous sport and we’re under way quickly.
Kadeena Cox, winner of golds in both cycling and athletics at the Rio Games, looks to retain her 500m time trial title – though her build-up has been hampered by injury and illness, while Daphne Schrager goes for gold in the C1-3 individual pursuit.
Then, in the pool we’ve got Tully Kearney seeking to retain her S5 100m freestyle crown with Suzanna Hext also contending; Olivia Newman-Baronius, Poppy Maskill and William Ellard all go in the S14 butterfly; and Brazil’s Teresa Perales, who has 27 Paralympic medals, will look to make the S2 100m backstroke final at the age of 48.
Then, this evening, we’ve got the men’s T11 long jump, and Petrucio Ferreira, also of Brazil and the world’s fastest Paralympic runner, aiming to once again win T47 100m gold. On y va!
