Paris Paralympics close with a party after 'historic summer'

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 10, 2024 12:08 am

(UPDATE) PARIS — The Paralympics closed on Sunday with a giant music-fueled party as chief Paris 2024 organizer Tony Estanguet said the Games and the Olympics had created a 'historic summer.'

The Paralympic flame and cauldron were extinguished before a concert featuring the best of French electronic music capped off proceedings at a packed Stade de France.

THE AFTERPARTY This photograph shows fireworks fired on the roof of the Stade de France at the end of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony, in Saint-Denis, in the outskirts of Paris, on Sept. 8, 2024. AFP PHOTO

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