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OBS Has Pledged To Have More Women In Key Broadcast Roles At Paris 2024

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) has pledged to enhance gender-balanced coverage at Paris 2024, aiming to provide “fair and balanced storytelling for all athletes”. OBS is the permanent broadcaster for the Games, producing the live television, radio and digital coverage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Yiannis Exarchos, OBS CEO, has emphasized the push to empower women across various broadcast roles …

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Paralympics Ireland Confirm Eight New Slots for Paralympic Games

Paralympics Ireland confirmed eight new slots for the Paralympic Games in the Para Equestrian and Para Swimming sport at an event to coincide with a major Paralympic milestone. Wednesday, 28 February 2024 marked six months to go to the Paralympic Games in Paris. Paralympics Ireland were joined by members of the Irish sporting community and the French Ambassador to Ireland, …

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Katie-George Dunlevy And Linda Kelly Receive UCI Para-Cycling World Cup Overall Winners Trophies

Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly were presented with their UCI Para-cycling World Cup overall winners trophies on Saturday, 4 November. The women’s tandem duo were presented with the trophies at Paralympics Ireland’s ‘Perform At Paris’ Conference as excitement builds with less than one year to go until the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. The trophies were not presented to riders …

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Russian and Belarusian athletes to be allowed to compete as neutrals in 2024 Paralympics

The International Paralympics Committee announced Friday (Sept. 29) that it had partially suspended the National Paralympic Committees of Russia and Belarus “for breaches of their constitutional membership obligations.” Belarus aided Russia last year in launching its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The partial suspension means that Belarusian and Russian athletes will be allowed to compete as individuals under a neutral flag …

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