Hong Kong's 70-year-old action star Jackie Chan will send the torch to the Paris Paralympics

Aug 26, 2024

○…Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan (Jackie Chan) will be the torchbearer for the 2024 Paris Paralympics. According to the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, Chan, who turned 70 this year, will carry out a torch relay mission in Paris ahead of the opening ceremony on the afternoon of the 28th. Chan has already played as a torchbearer four times at the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, the torch lit in Stokemanderville, the birthplace of the Paralympic Games, arrived in France through a channel tunnel linking Britain and France on the 26th, and will be lit at the opening ceremony on the 28th after passing through about 50 cities in 12 relay sections.

Members of the Refugee Paralympic Team pose at a training camp, ahead of the Paralympic Games, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 in Reims, Eastern France. (AP Photo/Patrick Hermansen)

Guillaume Junior Atangana (R) a blind para-athlete, and his guide Donard Ndim Nyamjua, train for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, at the Centre de Ressources, d'Expertise et de Performance Sportive (CREPS) in Reims on August 19, 2024. Guillaume Junior Atangana will compete in Para athletics as a member of the Refugee Paralympic Team in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, to be held from August 28 to September 8, 2024. (Photo by FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP)

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○…Ahead of the opening of the Paris Paralympics on the 28th, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced Guillaume Junior Atangana as the head of the Refugee Paralytic Team (RPT). The event will feature a refugee Paralympic team of eight athletes and two guide runners representing more than 120 million refugees around the world. Eight refugee athletes from six countries compete in six events, including track and field, weightlifting, table tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, and wheelchair fencing, and the first RPT athlete to compete in the first event on the first day is Zakia Kudadadi, a disabled taekwondo star and European champion in the 47kg class in 2023. They will march on the center stage of the squad marching from the streets of Champs-Elysees to Paris Concord Square. Atangana is very moved and happy after being selected as an RPT rider. I can feel the thrill. I'm imagining myself as a great champion who achieved my dream" gave an overwhelming impression. Atangana, who narrowly missed the medal in the 4x100m T11 event at the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics, will run with the Paralympic flag alongside guide runner and fellow refugee Donard Ndim Nyamzua.

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Hong Kong's 70-year-old action star Jackie Chan will send the torch to the Paris Paralympics

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