(ATR) The sport program for the Paris 2024 Paralympics will be the same as the Tokyo 2020 program.
The International Paralympic Committee’s Governing Board approved 22 sports for the Paris 2024 program at its meeting in London on Friday.
Eight sports and three disciplines bid to be part of the Paris 2024 program, of which the IPC shortlisted six. Those six sports and the 22 on the Tokyo 2020 program were subject to evaluation by the IPC for Paris 2024.
The IPC then chose one new sport, Cerebral Palsy Football, for consideration to Paris 2024 along with the 22 sports from Tokyo. Ultimately, the IPC decided against including the sport in the 2024 program.
"The IPC reviewed 23 strong bids and all 23 sports were viable for inclusion in the Games, which underlines the growing strength of the Paralympic Movement," Andrew Parsons, IPC President, said in a statement.
"In deciding the final sports for inclusion, the Board assessed all applications and committed to the Paralympic Movement’s desire to pursue gender parity, safeguard the involvement of athletes with high support needs and ensure that a diverse range of nations could take part."
Adding CP Football would have increased costs for Paris 2024, and required cutting athlete spots from other sports to maintain a ceiling of 4,350 athletes with gender parity.
"This decision was not taken lightly and involved evaluating many scenarios within an extremely complex sport ecosystem," Chelsey Gotell, Chairperson of the IPC Athletes Council, added in a statement. "As the voice of the athletes into the Governing Board, any decision made directly impacts my fellow athlete community, who have devoted their lives to training and competing to be the best in the world at their sport."
The 22 sports which will make up the Paris 2024 program are: athletics, archery, badminton, blind football, boccia, canoe, cycling, equestrian, goalball, judo, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair rugby and wheelchair tennis.
Written by Aaron Bauer
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