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The 2024 Paralympics in Paris won’t open in stadium

This computer-generated image distributed Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, by organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games shows how they imagine the Paralympic opening ceremony might look. In a first, the Paralympic opening show will be freed from a traditional stadium setting and instead be held in the open in the French capital's heart, on the Champs-Elysées boulevard and the city's biggest square, Place de la Concorde, organizers announced. (Paris 2024 via AP). This computer-generated image distributed Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, by organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games shows how they imagine the Paralympic opening ceremony might look. In a first, the Paralympic opening show will be freed from a traditional stadium setting and instead be held in the open in the French capital's heart, on the Champs-Elysées boulevard and the city's biggest square, Place de la Concorde, organizers announced. (Paris 2024 via AP). FILE- Visitors walk towards planted fields on the Champs Elysees near the "Place de la Concorde" (Concorde's square) monument in Paris, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Some 4,400 of the world's best athletes, parading down France's most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversities overcome, to a grand celebration of their prowess and sports on the Paris square where the French revolutionaries of 1789 chopped off heads. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File) FILE- The empty Champs Elysees avenue, with the Obelisque on Concorde square in background, is pictured, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021 in Paris. Some 4,400 of the world's best athletes, parading down France's most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversities overcome, to a grand celebration of their prowess and sports on the Paris square where the French revolutionaries of 1789 chopped off heads. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) FILE- Empty Champs Elysees avenue as the 7 p.m curfew starts in Paris, France, on Saturday, March 20, 2021. Some 4,400 of the world's best athletes, parading down France's most famous boulevard with their prosthetic limbs, mobility chairs and stories of adversities overcome, to a grand celebration of their prowess and sports on the Paris square where the French revolutionaries of 1789 chopped off heads. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh, File)