Athletes excited for Paralympics 'like nothing else' in Paris | ABS-CBN News

Three athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Paralympics spoke on Monday (August 26) of their excitement and pride about the upcoming games, which are due to start in the French capital this week. Norwegian rower Birgit Skarstein said she thought the games would be a “party like nothing else”, adding that it would give hope to viewers around the world. Skarstein has also competed in skiing in previous Winter Paralympic Games for Norway. For Dutch wheelchair tennis star Diede de Groot, she saw the Paralympics as a challenge to push for greater visibility. “I think we need to see it as like a challenge, to make it even better, we need to see it as a challenge to make it more visible for other people,” she said at the press conference. French Paralympic triathlete Alexis Hanquinquant was proud to see the games hosted in Paris but felt in the future, it would be better to change the timing. “Having the Paralympic Games at the end of August, beginning of September remains the little negative point because it’s when children go back to school, it’s when the working population go back to work,” he said. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games kick off with an opening ceremony taking place at landmarks in central Paris on Wednesday (August 28). (Production: Tom Little) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmgUHWUpi2ioSp4xAP1SmAaf For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmg4pcvfM9a96rbUcLD_0P_U For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgyY1WylJUmi83yKJH8Dv0p_3D4cyZKzV Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch the full episodes of TV Patrol on iWantTFC: http://bit.ly/TVPatrol-iWantTFC Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abscbnNEWS Twitter: https://twitter.com/abscbnnews #Exclusive #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews