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IPCThe build-up to the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris has seen the torch cross from England to France through the Channel Tunnel.
After being lit in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of the Paralympic motion, the flame is making the journey to Paris to mark the beginning of the video games.
On Sunday the relay noticed 24 British athletes journey via the tunnel from Folkestone, joined midway by 24 French athletes handy over the flame.
On arriving on the French coast in Calais, the flame splits into 12 separate ones that may journey throughout France.
Guildford rowing membership’s Helene Raynsford, together with Gregor Ewan, lit the Paralympic flame.
Ms Raynsford was the primary ever Paralympic champion in Para rowing when the game made its debut at Beijing 2008, whereas Mr Ewan is a three-time Paralympian in wheelchair curling.
Among different locations, the flames will go to Lyon, which is able to host 11 soccer matches in the course of the video games, and Lorient, which is residence to double Paralympic crusing gold medallist Damien Seguin.
The cauldron in Paris shall be lit when all 12 flames return to the town on 28 August, adopted by 11 days of competitors.
Getty ImagesThe video games run till 8 September, with greater than 4,000 athletes from around the globe competing in 549 medal occasions throughout 22 sports activities.
Stoke Mandeville is now the everlasting lighting level for all Paralympic torches, in the identical means the Olympic Flame is kindled at Olympia in Greece.
In 1948 Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised the Stoke Mandeville Games, a contest for wheelchair athletes, held on the identical day because the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London.
