ISSF President Luciano Rossi will attend tomorrow’s Paris 2024 Paralympics Opening Ceremony and continue discussions ahead of taking over responsibilities currently held by World Shooting Para Sport (WSPS).
President Rossi will be involved in detailed collaboration with the IPC President Andrew Parsons and leading WSPS officials over a new era of Paralympic shooting that he has been working towards since being elected to his current position in December 2022.
Once successfully concluded it will mean the bringing together of Olympic and Paralympic shooting into one family.
After the Opening Ceremony the ISSF President will return to the Chateauroux site which hosted the Olympic shooting programme and will spend some days getting to know Paralympic athletes, coaches and officials.
The Opening Ceremony will be held at the Place de la Concorde in the centre of Paris.
Directed by Thomas Jolly, who was also in charge of the Olympic Opening Ceremony that took place on the River Seine.
With choreography by Alexander Ekman, the ceremony will be themed around the human body and "history and its paradoxes"
The Parade of Nations will take place on the Champs-Elysees starting at the Arc de Trriomphe, upon which the Paralympic Agitos sign is displayed, and ending at Place de la Concorde.
A total of 160 competitors are due to take part in the Paris 2024 Paralympic shooting competition will take place at the French National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux from August 30 to September 5.