2020 Paralympic table tennis champion Elena Prokofieva says she is enjoying the atmosphere of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The athlete is quoted as saying “Match TV”.
“Everything is so great! I don’t know if they support me or not, but it’s a blast! – said Prokofieva.
Competing in the WS11 classification on September 3, the 53-year-old Russian defeated Hong Kong representative Ting Ting Wong (11:7, 11:3, 11:8) to advance to the semi-finals of the competition.
48 track and field athletes, 35 swimmers, 2 taekwondo representatives, 2 triathletes and 5 table tennis athletes applied for the Paralympic Games. On August 14, Craig Spence, the International Paralympic Committee’s communications director, reported that 90 applications had been approved. However, the French government later refused visas to two athletes from Russia who planned to participate in the Summer Paralympics.
On March 6, the International Paralympic Committee published criteria that would allow Russian Paralympic athletes to compete at the Games only with neutral status. Russian athletes will not be able to attend the opening and closing ceremonies, and their medals will not count towards the standings.
Former Russian Paralympian stated About the desire to defeat multiple champions of the games.
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Source: Gazeta
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