He died in the C4/C5 road race on Saturday, and this incident is marked as the first tragedy in the history of Paralympics Games.
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“There is one bitterness and one sweetness”, said Masoud Ashrafi, the secretary general of Iran’s Paralympic Committee.
The closing ceremony took place at Rio’s famed Maracana stadium on Monday (AEST), with festivities highlighted by a giant conga-line of athletes snaking its way around to the cheers of thousands of fans, who danced in the stands to Brazilian funk music.
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven introduced a minute’s silence to commemorate the cyclist’s life.
21 de septiembre de 2016, 14:26Beijing, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) Sports officials in China praised the Paralympic delegation, which made their triumphant return to the capital city following 12-days of competition in Rio. Poroshenko said Ukraine’s Paralympians were proving “that the impossible is possible”, the BBC reported.
An investigation into the crash has begun, the IPC said.
The Iranian flag was lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village, while the Paralympic flag was to be at half-mast during Sunday’s sitting volleyball gold-medal match between Iran and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Khatab said that the Paralympic athletes were disheartened because the media had deprived them of the right of being watched by an Egyptian audience.
The British Paralympic team tweeted: “We are devastated by the news of Bahman Golbarnezhad’s passing”. “I’ll go away and we will look at all the facts and figures of what my performances has been out in Rio”. Five British females – cyclist Dame Sarah Storey, swimmer Bethany Firth, wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft and equestrian riders Sophie Christiansen and Natasha Baker – won three gold medals.
Indian athletes capped off a successful games campaign and secured the best ever in the Rio with with four medals.
She asked Aziz to redress the matter at the Tokyo Paralympics, scheduled for 2020.
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15 September 2016; Niamh McCarthy of Ireland celebrates with her silver medal during the medal ceremony of the Women’s Discus Throw F41 Final at Olympic Stadium during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
