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The best Paralympic images by Tom Jenkins a photo essay | Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

The best Paralympic images by Tom Jenkins a photo essay | Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
The best Paralympic images by Tom Jenkins a photo essay | Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

 


WWhen I went to Paris for the Paralympic Games, I was a little bit afraid. Because how do you follow up such a successful Olympic Games? Would the city be able to get excited for a mega show two weeks later? I needn’t have worried, these Games were just as great.

Although the undisputed star of the Olympics was the city of Paris itself, this time the athletes were definitely the biggest attraction. I photographed some remarkable talents, such as young table tennis player Bly Twomney, who has cerebral palsy, American sprint sensation Ezra Frech, extraordinary swimmer Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Arajo who has neither arms nor fully formed legs, and even the second tallest man in the world who competed in sitting volleyball.

Many of the iconic Olympic venues were reused for the Paralympic Games. You could even argue that Stade Tour Eiffel was even better this time around, with its green football pitch perfectly set against the red autumn sunsets. What’s more, the marathon races on the final day allowed athletes to compete on the Champs-Élysées (billed as the most beautiful avenue in the world), something that never happened during the Olympics.

But it was the Paralympic athletes themselves who made these Games so special, with awe-inspiring stories that often produced compelling sport. It is this intoxicating mix that makes the Paralympic Games a real privilege to photograph.

New Zealand's Wojtek Czyz dives during his defeat to Great Britain's Daniel Bethell in the group stage of the parabadminton men's singles SL3.
Ugo Didier celebrates France's first gold medal at the Games in the men's 400m freestyle final (S9) at La Defense Arena.
Participants in the men's PTS4 triathlon are helped out of the River Seine after the swim.
Bly Twomey of Great Britain during her defeat to Kubra Korkut of Turkey in the semi-final of the WS7 women's singles table tennis.
Iran's Morteza Mehrzad, the second tallest man in the world, hits the ball during the men's sitting volleyball semi-final against Egypt.
France will play the final group match of the blind football tournament against Turkey in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Misato Michishita from Japan runs with her guide down the Champs-Elysées on her way to third place in the women's T12 marathon.
Fireworks during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games at Place de la Concorde.
Ezra Frech of the USA (far left) wins the final of the men's 100m T63 sprint.
Britain's Aaron Phipps (right) rushes with the ball as he is chased by France's Jonathan Hivernat in a Group B preliminary round match of wheelchair rugby.
Frenchman Timothe Adolphe won silver together with his guide Jeffrey Lami in the final of the men's 400m T11.
Great Britain's Gordon Reid takes a shot during the wheelchair doubles final against Japan's Takuya Miki and Tokido Ota.
Sheetal Devi from India is competing in the last 16 of the women's individual compound open archery competition.
China's Jincheng Guo dives into the water at the start of the men's 200m freestyle swimming final (S5).
Marie Patouillet from France wins gold in the final of the 3000m individual pursuit cycling for women C5.
Steve Serio, captain of the US wheelchair basketball team, is defeated by Lee Fryer of Great Britain in the men's final.
South Africa's Mpumelelo Mhlongo cheers to the crowd as he wins the final of the men's 100m T44 sprint.
Bebe Vio celebrates with her Italian fans the bronze final in which she defeated Eun Hye Cho from South Korea in the category B wheelchair fencing for women.
Brazil's Gabriel Geraldo dos Santos Arajo holds a rope with his mouth before taking off and winning the S2 men's 100m backstroke final.
Japan's Tokito Oda celebrates his victory over Britain's Alfie Hewett during the men's singles gold medal tennis match.
Jerusa Geber dos Santos, a 42-year-old blind Brazilian, breaks the world record in the women's 100m T11 sprint heats.
Whitney Dosty of the US tries to retrieve a ball during the women's sitting volleyball semi-final against Brazil.
Alessandro Rodrigo Da Silva from Brazil in the men's F11 shot put final.
During the women's category B wheelchair fencing competition at the Grand Palais, a participant's prosthetic leg is placed along the track.

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