{"id":234323,"date":"2024-08-27T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/?p=234323"},"modified":"2024-08-27T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T16:00:10","slug":"paris-paralympics-begin-on-wednesday-28-with-opening-ceremony-brazil-debuts-on-thursday-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/?p=234323","title":{"rendered":"Paris Paralympics begin on Wednesday (28) with opening ceremony; Brazil debuts on Thursday (29)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brasil de Fato<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The Paris Paralympic Games begin on Wednesday (28), with the opening ceremony starting at 8\u00a0p.m. (local time). Paralympic champions Beth Gomes from athletics and Gabriel Ara\u00fajo from swimming will be the Brazilian flag bearers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The competitions start on Thursday (29), with intense Brazilian participation. On this day, the country will be represented in para-badminton, Paralympic archery, goalball, and sitting volleyball. Check out the full program on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/paris-2024\/paralympic-games\/schedule\/28-august\">Paralympic Games website.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">A total of 279 Brazilian sportspeople, including athletes and guide athletes, are taking part in the competition, making it the largest Brazilian delegation ever to participate in a Games edition outside of Brazil. Paris will also see the largest\u00a0women\u2019s participation\u00a0in the history of the Paralympic Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">In all, 22 of Brazil&#8217;s 26 states, including the Federal District, will be represented in the delegation in 20 sports at the Games. Most athletes are from S\u00e3o Paulo: 71 of the 254 called up, representing 28% of the total team.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">At the beginning of August, the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB, in Portuguese) launched a campaign with medal-winning athletes who will be participating in the games, with the manifesto \u201cMore Than Winners: Brazilians.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The campaign video features medalists Gabriel Ara\u00fajo, a swimmer from Minas Gerais; weightlifter Mariana D\u2019Andrea, from S\u00e3o Paulo; sprinter Vin\u00edcius Rodrigues, from Paran\u00e1; and thrower Ra\u00edssa Machado, from Bahia. The film is available online, offline, and on CPB\u2019s social networks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe Paralympic Games have arrived, and we aim to rally Brazilian fans not only for the athletes competing in Paris in our colors but also to raise public awareness of inclusion through sport,\u201d explained Mizael Conrado, a two-time Paralympic champion in blind soccer, in the campaign material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The Games will take place from August 28 to September 8, featuring around 4,400 athletes. In the last edition in Tokyo, Brazil won 72 medals: 22 gold, 20 silver, and 30 bronze, finishing seventh in the medal table.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 279 athletes, the country has the largest Brazilian delegation for an edition of the games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1781,332,136],"class_list":["post-234323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bahia","tag-minas-gerais","tag-sao-paulo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avozdocerrado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}