Brazil wants to expand its presence at the Paralympics in Paris 2024
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Brazil, for the time being, is assured in three of them. The first was the sitting volleyball, which has the women’s selection guaranteed, after the unprecedented world title, obtained last November, in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The team will compete in two tournaments in 2023 that qualify for a place in the Games: the Pan American Championship, in Edmonton (Canada), in May, and the World Cup in Cairo (Egypt), in November. As it is already classified, the Brazilian team will use the competitions, basically, as preparation.
“There are times when even I can’t believe we’ve already won the vacancy and that there are people still chasing it. Now, it’s time to train to win the title”, celebrated Janaína Petit, player of the sitting volleyball team.
“It gives you great peace of mind. [ter classificado por antecipação], but a year and a half passes very quickly. we will test [formações e jogadas], but already have in mind what we want. I think the team will get stronger. We will be on equal terms to win the gold medal [em Paris]”, completed coach Fernando Guimarães, who is also in charge of the men’s team, which will compete in the two events of 2023 to seek a place in the Paralympics – only the champion is guaranteed.
The countdown towards the Paris Paralympics reaches 500 days this Sunday (16). The event on French soil begins on August 28, 2024 and continues until September 8, with the expectation of bringing together 4,400 athletes, in 549 events in 22 sports.
Brazil’s participation in 2024 is also confirmed in men’s goalball, thanks to the national team winning their third world championship, in December last year, in Matosinhos (Portugal). The sport is played by athletes with visual impairment (total or low vision) and is the only one in the Paralympic movement that is not an adaptation of some “conventional” practice.
Another modality that has assured green and yellow representation in Paris is cycling. In February, the International Cycling Union (UCI) allocated two spots to Brazil – one per gender – due to the country’s position in the men’s (leader) and women’s (second) rankings in the Americas.
Considering the three modalities, the plane from Brazil to Paris currently has 20 seats reserved: 12 for women’s seated volleyball athletes, six for men’s goalball and two for cycling. The Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB) wants to classify at least 250 athletes. In the Tokyo (Japan) edition, in 2021, the country had 259 representatives, including those without disabilities (guide athletes in athletics and swimming, the helmsman in rowing, the goalkeepers in soccer for the blind and the bocce coaches).
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