Two years from the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) has drawn up a strategic plan to mark the history of the French capital. The entity’s president, Mizael Conrado, spoke exclusively to ge.globo and revealed that the goal was to win between 70 and 90 medals and stay in the top 8.
– The objective of the CPB is to stay in the top 8 of the general classification of medals and to win between 70 and 90 medals in Paris. We will do our best to ensure that our athletes participate in the Games in the best possible way – said Mizael Conrado.
Mizael Conrado, President of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee — Photo: Daniel Zappe/EXEMPLUS/CPB
Brazil left the Japanese capital in 2021 with 72 medals, 22 gold, 20 silver and 30 bronze, the country’s best campaign in a Paralympic Games edition.
Some 250 athletes are expected to represent Brazil for the 2024 Games in Paris. The Paralympic Games will have a record number of women’s medal and seat events, as well as more opportunities for athletes with greater physical and motor disabilities. 4400 athletes from 182 countries are expected in 549 events in 22 different modalities.
2 years before the Paralympic Games in Paris, the Brazilian Paralympic Committee promotes action in São Paulo
Following the trend driven by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the CPB also wants to bring more women into competition. In Tokyo, they represented 37% of the national delegation, an increase of 400% since the Athens Games in 2004.
– Our goal is to have more women in the delegation, it is part of our strategic planning, and we are working on it every day so that they can win more and more medals. We strongly believe in increasing the percentage of women in the delegation – according to the president of the CPB.
Carol Santiago, best medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Games — Photo: Ale Cabral / CPB
The program uses the same modalities as the previous edition: athletics, badminton, wheelchair basketball, petanque, canoeing, cycling, wheelchair fencing, blind football, goalball, weightlifting, equestrian sports, judo, swimming, rowing, rugby, taekwondo, table tennis, wheelchair tennis, archery, shooting sports, triathlon and sitting volleyball.
Two modalities bring significant changes in this edition: petanque and taekwondo. At the balls, there will be segregation based on sex. Taekwondo, on the other hand, had the inclusion of two weight classes by gender, all for class K44 – for those with unilateral amputees from the elbow to the wrist joint.
Nonato celebrates a goal against Argentina at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – Photo: Buda Mendes/Getty Images
In blind football, the new rules apply with a reduction of 20 to 15 minutes per half. Judo competitions will also have new rules for visual classification and weight categories.
In team sports, Brazil hopes to rank wheelchair basketball and rugby teams. Both missed the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.
– The CPB has fully supported the confederations of these two methods of promotion and development. The Rugby and Basketball World Cup standings (women’s and men’s) show we are on the right track, Mizael noted.
The Brazilian delegation is expected to arrive in France 12 days from the end of the Games, which will begin on August 28. The place of acclimatization of the Brazilian delegation has not yet been determined.
– We will visit Paris and the neighboring cities to choose the place of acclimatization. We think the final period of preparation will be mixed, here at the Paralympic Training Center and in France. It is possible that a modality escapes this planning due to its specificities. The minimum acclimatization period is 12 days, with seven days outside the village and five days inside the village, remember that each modality has an entry date to Vila dos Atletas.
The Seine will be one of the stages of the opening ceremony of Paris 2024 — Photo: Reproduction / Twitter
The Paris Games have a different opening ceremony: directly from the Seine. This is the first time that the festivities will not take place in an Olympic stadium.
The arenas, permanent and temporary, will be divided into ten regions and some facilities will have a privileged view of France’s tourist attractions, such as equestrian sports, which will be near the Palace of Versailles, blind football and archery. arch, which be around the Eiffel tower.
The road to Paris has only just begun and next year select sports will have the chance to have their passports pre-stamped at the Santiago 2023 Parapan Am Games.
