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Highlighting BC’s Paralympians

By: Hailey Miller, Staff Writer 39 Paralympians with ties to BC have just returned home from a successful trip to the Paris 2024 Paralympics. Riding off the high of the most prestigious world stage in sport — and hungry for competition — 11 of these BC-based Paralympians scooped up medals. Altogether, 126 paralympic athletes from the Canadian national team were named to the Paris 2024 games. Team Canada returned home with 29 medals — 10 gold, nine silver, and 10 bronze — tied with Rio 2016 as the most hardware won by Canadian Paralympians at any summer Paralympics to date. …

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