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Team USA keeps Olympic training center, other facilities open for Paralympians for the first time

Avni Trivedi/AP

Wheelchair fencer Jataya Taylor from the U.S., left, and U.S. Paralympic snowboarder Mike Schultz talk during a wheelchair fencing practice at the U.S. High Performance Center during the Paralympic Games in Paris on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Avni Trivedi)

By: By ANA ESCAMILLA and JULIANNA RUSS Associated Press

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PARIS (AP) — The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is giving its Paralympians an advantage long held by its Olympians: a training facility of their own.

For the first time, the U.S. High Performance Facility is staying open through the Paralympic games at a multisport facility in the Paris suburbs.

Athletes say that having a space they can call their own makes training much easier, and that having the support facilities and staff they use back in the States allows them to focus on their competition.

The facility will return to local ownership with $29 million in renovations by USOPC.

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