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There are 22 gold medals to be won on the opening day of the 2024 Paralympic Games - and no shortage of opportunities for ParalympicsGB to earn medals.

At the velodrome, four-time Paralympic gold medallist Kadeena Cox will hope to contest the women’s C4-5 500m time trial final at 14:50 BST. Not long to wait until that one!

Debutant Daphne Schrager will seek to qualify for the C1-3 individual pursuit final at 15:29, while tandem pair Steve Bate and Chris Latham are in B individual pursuit action.

At the pool, European champions William Ellard and Olivia Newman-Baronius will hope to win their first Paralympic medals in their respective S14 butterfly events (17:35 and 17:42), and Tully Kearney will seek to go one better than her Tokyo silver in the S5 200m freestyle.

Other names to watch out for on Thursday include Spanish swimmer Teresa Perales, her nation’s most successful Paralympian with 27 medals, in the S2 backstroke, and Belarusian swimmer Ihar Boki - competing as a neutral athlete – as he aims to add to his 16 gold medals in the S13 100m butterfly.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Six-time London Marathon wheelchair champion on BBC Radio 5 Live

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On the spectacular opening ceremony...

It is an important tone; I liked the ceremony being outside the stadium.

They have done that by not building a load of new venues, it's a more sustainable Games.

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A spectacular opening ceremony marked the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games as athletes paraded along the iconic Champs-Elysees to Place de la Concorde in glorious conditions on Wednesday evening.

As with the Olympic Games, the Paralympics opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium for the first time in the French capital.

The main ceremony was staged at Place de la Concorde, on a perfect summer evening in the heart of the city, following a parade along the Avenue des Champs-Elysees from the iconic Arc de Triomphe.

Organisers estimated 65,000 people would be present, with spectators able to watch the parade for free before the ticketed open-air event.

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Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 organising committee, said the opening ceremony represented the start of "the Paralympic revolution" led by the athletes.

"What makes you revolutionaries is that, when they told you 'no', you continued," Estanguet said.

"Tonight, you are inviting us to change our perspectives, change our attitudes, change our society to finally give every person their full place.

"Every emotion that you make us feel will carry a message that will never be forgotten: You have no limits, so let us stop imposing limits on you."

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Well, it's finally here.

Over the next 11 days we will be keeping you right up to date with all of the action and how ParalympicsGB are getting on in the French capital.

Shall we get started?

It all began, officially, with a spectacular opening ceremony in Paris last night...

Hello and welcome to the start of the Paralympics in Paris!

It is day one and the opening day is set for plenty of medals and excitement.

With medals in swimming, cycling, table tennis and plenty more on offer, we are set for a thrilling day of action.