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The Retreat: A Gold Standard Performance Space for all ParalympicsGB Athletes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

At the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, ParalympicsGB unveiled The Retreat—a neuroinclusive performance space in the heart of the Village. More than a wellbeing room, it was performance infrastructure: a calm, flexible environment where athletes could regulate, recover, and prepare to compete. Learning from Tokyo 2020, where coping often replaced true recovery, The Retreat set a new gold standard with sensory-considerate design, self-regulation tools, and restorative spaces. Athlete feedback was clear: this wasn’t a luxury, but a necessity. By embedding neuroinclusion into elite environments, The Retreat showed how wellbeing and performance can thrive together—setting a benchmark for future Games and high-performance sport.

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