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The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, and branded as Paris 2024, is the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an upcoming international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee, to be held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024.
As of the early 21st century, it is one of the largest international sporting events, with 4,520 athletes from 163 National Paralympic Committees at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1] Paralympians strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
A wheelchair basketball game at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of ten disability categories; impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. [3]
In contrast, 1999 saw five players hold the No. 1 ranking (the most in any single year): Sampras, Carlos Moyá, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Andre Agassi, and Patrick Rafter . Prior to 2009, Federer accumulated the most year-end ATP ranking points in any season, with 8,370 points in 2006.
3.5 million [42] — February 2016: Construction and management simulation: Wube Software: Dark Souls III: 3.3 million [41] Dark Souls: April 12, 2016: Action role-playing: FromSoftware: Bandai Namco Entertainment: Mount & Blade : Bannerlord: 3.1 million [43] [better source needed] Mount & Blade: March 27, 2020 Action role-playing Strategy ...
376 – Andorra (formerly 33 628) 377 – Monaco (formerly 33 93) 378 – San Marino (interchangeably with 39 0549; earlier was allocated 295 but never used) 379 – Vatican City (assigned but uses 39 06698). 38 – formerly assigned to Yugoslavia until its break-up in 1991. 380 – Ukraine. 381 – Serbia.
A total of seven chess players have been the chess world number one on the official FIDE rating list since it was first published in July 1971. [1] The first world number one, in July 1971, was Bobby Fischer. In January 1976 Anatoly Karpov became the highest-rated player on the FIDE list, FIDE having dropped Fischer (whose rating was higher ...
Twenty-five artists reached the top of the Hot 100 in 2020, with thirteen— Roddy Ricch, Kid Cudi, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, 6ix9ine, Harry Styles, BTS, M.I.A., Jawsh 685, 24kGoldn, and Iann Dior —achieving their first number-one single. Ariana Grande and BTS scored three number ones each.