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Paris Paralympics 2024 Medal Tally: India 10th with a gold, a silver and 2 bronzes, China lead tally with 11 | Sport-others News

Paris 2024 Paralympic Medal Table: India opened their account in the Paris Paralympics on Friday with shooters Avani Lekhara and Mona Agarwal winning gold and bronze respectively in the 10m rifle event. Meanwhile, Preeti Pal finished 3rd in Women’s 100m – T35 Final, with a Personal Best of 14.21s which helped her bag a bronze. Shooter Manish Narwal also bagged a silver medal in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 Final on the same day taking India’s medal tally to 4. India has sent the largest number of participants in the Paralympics this year with 84 athletes competing in 12 sports who will be looking to overtake its medal tally from Tokyo. In the Tokyo Paralympics in 2021, India was represented by 54 members in nine sports and won 19 medals. “Our 84-member team has come here with great enthusiasm. As the president of the Paralympic Committee, I want to tell you that we are going to create history in this tournament,” Double paralympic medalist Devendra Jhajharia, who is now president of the Paralympic Committee …

Story behind medals of Paris 2024: Athletes on the podium get to take home a piece of the Eiffel Tower | Sport-others News

When one thinks of Paris, one thinks of the Eiffel Tower. In 2024, one thinks of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games too. And athletes from around the world who will finish on the podium at Paris 2024 will get to take home a piece of the Eiffel Tower. On Thursday, the organisers announced that the medals to be handed out at the Summer Games will be set with hexagon-shaped tokens forged out of scrap metal from the iconic monument. The idea was to link the Games with the symbols of France, said Thierry Reboul, creative director of Paris 2024. “The absolute symbol of Paris and France is the Eiffel Tower,” Reboul told reporters. “It’s the opportunity for the athletes to bring back a piece of Paris with them.” The Olympic medals usually follow a theme. Last time around, the medals were moulded from metal extracted from recycled consumer electronics as part of the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project, which involved Japanese citizens donating electronic devices for the cause. For the Paris medals, the original iron …