These Paralympic champions will be carrying the flag for Canada! 🇨🇦⁣ •⁣ Wheelchair basketball athlete Patrick Anderson and Para swimmer Katarina Roxon have been named Canada's flag bearers for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. 🙌⁣ •⁣ Anderson, one of the best athletes to ever play the game of wheelchair basketball, is heading into his sixth Paralympic Games. He won gold with the men's wheelchair basketball team in 2000, 2004, and 2012 as well as silver in 2008. 🏀⁣ •⁣ Roxon is making history in Paris as the first Canadian female Para swimmer to compete at five Paralympic Games. She made her debut at Beijing 2008, where she was the youngest swimmer on the Canadian team. She won her first Paralympic medal — gold in the women’s SB8 100m breaststroke in 2016 — and her second career medal as part of the bronze-medal winning women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team at Tokyo 2020. 🏊‍♀️⁣ •⁣ "This is a big honour and special thing," said Anderson. "This is a special country and an...