2024 Summer Paralympics Kick Off on August 28: Stay Updated and Explore the Games with Google Tools
The 2024 Summer Paralympics commenced on Wednesday, 28 August 2024. This is the 17th edition of the Summer Paralympic Games. Paris, France is the host for the Summer Paralympic Games this year.
The Summer Paralympic Games are scheduled from 28 August 2024 to 8 September 2024. About 4,400 athletes from 169 nations will participate in about 549 events across 22 sports.
Now, as you head on to Paris to witness the Summer Paralympic Games, you can stay on track with the updates of the games on Google and YouTube. For this Google offers various tools, which will allow you to have a smoother navigation of the games.
This article will give you a brief walkthrough of some such features from Google.
Search: You can stay up-to-date with the Paralympic Games through daily Paralympic Doodles and features. You can check schedules in your local timezone and also keep track of medal counts, results, news, and video highlights.
The search feature allows you to send a virtual bouquet to your favourite teams or athletes when they win a medal, just by searching for them.
Maps: Use Google Maps to make navigation easier for you, while you are in Paris. Google has collaborated with local officials to update information about 50,000 restaurants, shops, and places of attraction in France. You can also filter your search especially for “wheelchair accessible entrance” on both Google Maps and Search.
YouTube: If you are not visiting France to witness the games, you can watch them on the official Paralympic Games YouTube channel. The games will be broadcast on YouTube across 175 territories including Japan, Korea, India, and Mexico. Along with it, the games will also be broadcast on Channel 4 Sport YouTube channel in the UK. It is to be noted, that you will also get the option of Multiview, with the help of which you can watch up to four streams at the same time.
Google TV: You can cherish and enjoy the most thrilling moments from The Paralympics using Google TV. From live events to official highlights, behind-the-scenes interviews, etc, Google TV covers it all. You can get access to these by clicking on the “For You” tab in Google TV.
Google Pay: Google Pay and Visa last launched the Visa Paris 2024 campaign in Google Wallet. If you have a Visa card, you can earn digital Phryges from different Olympic and Paralympic sports, everytime you pay with Visa using Google Pay in a store or online. With every in-store transaction, a surprise animation in Wallet gets revealed, which features one of the collected Paris 2024 mascots.
You can learn more about these features and other interesting options offered by Google here.
