Paralympics LIVE: Great Britain’s Brock Whiston wins silver on Games debut at Paris 2024

Kadeena Cox has spent the past decade playing the hand that her body has dealt her and this time, it gave her no choice but to fold.

Paris 2024 marks a decade since Cox was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and the last year has been perhaps her roughest yet, racked with relapses and plagued with injuries.

It all culminated in a cruel crash on the first turn of the 500m time trial, an event in which the 33-year-old was meant to win ParalympicsGB’s first medal of the Games and retain her title.

Rose Ayling-Ellis has made history as the first deaf presenter to work live on the Paralympic Games.

The 29-year-old appeared alongside Clare Balding to present Channel 4’s coverage of the Paris Paralympic Games on Thursday evening (29 August).

As Balding informed viewers her co-presenter was making history, the former Strictly champion explained: “It’s a bit complicated, there’s a lot going on.”

“I am too deaf for an ear piece, so I have the lovely Kirsty over there, who is going to be my earpiece lady.”

ParalympicsGB’s Matt Robertson has set a new Paralympic record and in the men’s para cycling C2 3,000m individual pursuit qualifier.

In 12 laps of the Velodrome, he lapped his competitor, Portugal’s Telmo Pinao, two times and finished with a time of 3:28.281.

That is a seriously impressive debut for the cyclist. The fastest two qualifiers will race for gold later today with Robertson currently top of the pile.

Nick Cummins, ParalympicsGB wheelchair rugby captain, spoke after leading the team to victory against Denmark at the Champ de Mars Arena.

In a post-match interview to Channel 4 he said: “This is what we have wanted for a long time – we’ve got great players, a great bench ethic, everyone’s in for the team and everyone’s got their team mates back.

“It’s really exciting – we’ve had a great start and we want to keep that going. The crowd here is amazing, its almost like playing back home – the energy was amazing.”

Sir Keir Starmer joked he wanted to stay in a “chilled” Paris as he met with Team GB Paralympians on Thursday (29 August).

The prime minister, who this week made an address to the nation admitting things will get worse for people in the UK before they get better, met several Paralympian athletes at their training ground Saint-Germain-en-Laybe in Paris.

One of the athletes told Sir Keir: “As you can see, it’s a very chilled atmosphere.”

The prime minister laughed and replied: “Yes, it’s nice. I am staying.”

The Labour leader then watched the Paralympians take part in their training sessions

Great Britain have done it!

They’ve beaten Denmark 55-53 and are unbeaten in their title defence. Another tight match goes the way of the reigning champions.

But, they’ve got a real test still to come as they take on the hosts France tomorrow evening. So far so good for ParalympicsGB.

David Weir believes he’s ready to go faster than ever at the Paris Paralympics thanks to a mystery benefactor who bought him a state-of-the-art racing wheelchair.

It’s fair to say Weir, a six-time Paralympic champion, has cut a disillusioned figure at recent Games.

After his three golds in London, he was left raging in Rio, claiming a member of the team accused him of ‘throwing a race’ and vowing never compete for Britain again.

Britain are turning up the heat in the final quarter of this wheelchair rugby clash. They lead 45-42 with six minutes or so remaining on the clock.

It’s a good lead to have but things can change quickly in this sport and scores can come thick and fast. The Paralympic champions need to remain switched on here.

In the third quarter of their second group match against Denmark, Great Britain are currently being held 38-38.

Here’s a reminder of what happened yesterday when they took on Australia:

ParalympicsGB launched their wheelchair rugby title defence with a statement 58-55 victory over world number ones Australia in front of a capacity crowd in Paris.

Great Britain made history at Tokyo 2020 by memorably clinching the nation’s first gold in the mixed-gender sport.

The next para cyclist up for Great Britain is Blaine Hunt who is also competing in the C4-5 1000m time trial.

An unbelivably quick time of 1:02.005 is easily good enough to secure him a place in the final and he qualifies as the quickest of the three Brits with Jody Cundy and Archie Atkinson also safely through.

Australia’s Korey Boddington was last to race in the qualifiers and broke Jody Cundy’s Paralympic record, with a speedy time of 1:02.021.