Google Doodle today celebrates the equestrian events of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Today’s Google Doodle: The tech giant has unveiled a special doodle to celebrate the Paralympic athletes who will be taking part in the equestrian event at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games today. The animated doodle features a little helmeted bird riding a horse. Meanwhile, a chicken acts as the referee for the game.

“Galloping for gold! It’s time to saddle up for the Paralympic equestrian events at the Palace of Versailles,” Google added in its description. Unlike the Olympics, which have three equestrian disciplines, the Paralympics have only one, which is dressage. Both rider and horse are judged in this event.

According to the official website, Olympics.com, the precision and quality of the horsemanship, the artistry, the horse’s gait and stops are some of the aspects on which the equestrian events are judged.

Although Para dressage began as a leisure activity, the first competitions were held in the 1970s.

Little by little, at the 1996 Atlanta Games, dressage became part of the Paralympic Games.

India’s victories at the Paris Paralympics

With the equestrian games scheduled for today, the Paralympic Games have entered their tenth day of spectacle. India is currently in in 16th place overall with 25 medals, including five gold, nine silver and 11 bronze.

1. Avani Lekhara- Shooting (10m Air Rifle Female Standing SH1) – Gold

2. Mona Agarwal-Tiro (Women’s 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1) – Bronze

3. Preethi Pal-Women’s 100m T35 (Athletics)-Bronze

4. Manish Narwal – SH1 10m Air Pistol for Men (Shooting) – Silver

5. Rubina Francis – Women’s SH1 10m Air Pistol (Shot) – Bronze

6. Preethi Pal – Women’s 200m T35 (Athletics) – Bronze

7. Nishad Kumar – Men’s High Jump T47 (Athletics) – Silver

8. Yogesh Kathuniya – Men’s Discus Throw F56 (Athletics) – Silver

9. Nitesh Kumar – Men’s Singles SL3 (Badminton) – Gold

10. Thulasimathi Murugesan – Women’s Singles SU5 (Badminton) – Silver

11. Manisha Ramadass – Women’s Singles SU5 (Badminton) – Bronze

12. Suhas Yathiraj – Men’s Singles SL4 (Badminton) – Silver

13. Rakesh Kumar / Sheetal Devi – Mixed Team Open Compound (Athletics) – Bronze

14. Sumit Antil- Javelin Throw F64 (Athletics)- Gold

15. Nithya Sre Sivan – Women’s Singles SH6 (Badminton) – Bronze

16. Deepthi Jeevanji – Women’s 400m T20 (Athletics) – Bronze

17. Sharad Kumar – Men’s High Jump T63 (Athletics) – Silver

18. Mariyappan Thangavelu -Men’s High Jump T63 (Athletics)- Bronze

19. Ajeet Singh – Men’s Javelin Throw F46 (Athletics) – Silver

20. Sundar Singh Gurjar – Men’s Javelin Throw F46 (Athletics) – Bronze

21. Sachin Khilari – Men’s Shot Put F46 (Athletics) – Silver

22. Harvinder Singh – Men’s Individual Recurve Archery Open – Gold

23. Dharambir – Men’s Mace Throw 51 (Athletics) – Gold

24. Pranav Soorma – Men’s Mace Throw 51 (Athletics) – Silver

25. Kapil Parmar – Men’s 60kg Judo (J1) Category – Bronze

Paris 2024 has been India’s most successful Paralympic Games of the 12 editions the country has participated in since 1960.