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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Lawrence Ostlere

Paris 2024 Paralympic torch relay will begin in Buckinghamshire

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The torch relay for next summer’s 2024 Paralympic Games will begin its four-day journey to Paris in a Buckinghamshire village.

Stoke Mandeville, near Aylesbury, is the birthplace of the Paralympic movement, which can trace its roots back to 1948 when a German neurologist working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, organised a multi-sport event for World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries.

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