The Paris 2024 Summer season Paralympic Video games are underway, and the US males’s wheelchair basketball crew had it first match towards Spain on Thursday.
The video games comply with the 2024 Paris Olympics which ran from July 26, 2024, to Aug. 11. The Paralympics will happen at most of the identical venues that noticed Olympic motion, whereas others are being transformed for the Paralympics.
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Here is what to learn about wheelchair basketball on the Paralympics:
The boys’s wheelchair basketball crew had its first sport of the 2024 Paralympics towards Spain. Group USA left the court docket victorious after the sport on Thursday that ended 66-56.
When is the lads’s wheelchair basketball crew enjoying in 2024 Paralympics?
After the victory, Group USA has a sport towards the Netherlands at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday.
What’s wheelchair basketball Paralympics?
Wheelchair basketball consists of two groups which have 5 gamers and 7 substitutes with the aim being to insert the ball within the basket of the opposing crew, in response to the Worldwide Wheelchair Basketball Federation web site.
“The match consists of 4 intervals of ten minutes,” in response to the web site. “If the rating is tied on the finish of enjoying time for the fourth interval, the match shall be continued with an additional interval of 5 minutes or with as many such intervals of 5 minutes as are vital to interrupt the tie.”
The ladies’s wheelchair basketball crew is enjoying their first sport towards Germany on Friday at 10 a.m.
When are the 2024 Paris Paralympics?
The 2024 Paris Paralympics started on Wednesday with the opening ceremony and can run by means of Sunday, September 8.
What to know in regards to the 2024 Paris Paralympics
The video games will function round 4,400 athletes from around the globe. They are going to compete in 549 medal occasions throughout 22 completely different sports activities. Most of the occasions shall be held on the identical venues that hosted the athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. For instance, wheelchair basketball will happen on the Bercy Area, the positioning of the lads’s and girls’s basketball competitors throughout the Paris Olympics.
The medals are additionally much like those awarded on the 2024 Paris Olympics, full with a chunk of unique iron from the Eiffel Tower. They’ve additionally been designed to be distinguished by contact and embody engravings and braille.
These will mark the primary Summer season Paralympic Video games held in France, and the occasion has already led to constructive modifications in accessibility; town of Paris has made tweaks to make overground transportation extra accessible.
What sports activities are within the 2024 Paris Paralympics?
- Para Archery
- Para Athletics
- Para Badminton
- Blind Soccer (soccer)
- Boccia
- Para Canoe
- Para Biking
- Para Equestrian
- Goalball
- Para Judo
- Para Powerlifting
- Para Rowing
- Capturing Para Sport
- Sitting Volleyball
- Para Swimming
- Para Desk Tennis
- Para Taekwondo
- Para Triathlon
- Wheelchair Basketball
- Wheelchair Fencing
- Wheelchair Rugby
- Wheelchair Tennis
Easy methods to watch the 2024 Paris Paralympic Video games
The 2024 Paris Paralympics shall be broadcast throughout the NBC household of networks, with many occasions going down on USA Community and CNBC.
The Paralympics can be streamed on Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, the official Paralympic YouTube channel and the Worldwide Paralympic Committee web site.
Gabrile Jackson contributed to this text.