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By Ed Warner A row over the eligibility of Italian transgender athlete Valentina Petrillo looms over the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, showing why para sports must be independent from organisers the IPC. It is increasingly difficult to find footage online of Raygun at Paris 2024. For a brief moment it seemed the Aussie breakdancer who launched a thousand memes would be one of the defining collective global memories of this summer’s Olympics, but the sinister hands of internet airbrushers will likely leave her a little-remembered footnote. Instead, the French will always have Leon Marchand, Anto…

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