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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Paralympics countdown: ‘We want to positively influence lives of 1.2bn people’

ParalympicsGB Paris 2024 ambassador, Funmi Oduwaiye, in London marking 100 days to go to the Paralympics.
ParalympicsGB Paris 2024 ambassador, Funmi Oduwaiye, in London marking 100 days to go to the Paralympics. Photograph: Felix Ursell/PA

With 100 days to go until the Paralympic Games begin in Paris, Andrew Parsons has a job to do. The 47-year-old Brazilian is the president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). But these Games matter, as a moment for disability sport and the movement that lies behind it, and the pressure is on.

“This is the first edition of the summer Games where we will be able to explore our full potential,” he says. “We had London, which is still regarded as the benchmark, and then we had Rio, which was a tough games for us to put together. Then it was Tokyo and the pandemic.

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