By John Pye BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — There was no better day to urge the people of Brisbane to do better than the benchmarks Sydney set for the Paralympics. International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons’ visit to the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic host city Wednesday coincided with the start of the traditional rugby league grudge match that is the Origin series, one of the biggest annual fixtures on Australia’s sports calendar. “Without doubt, the year 2000 was a gamechanger and provided the foundations from which we could advance the Paralympic Games and wider Paralympic movement,” Parsons told a gathering at a Brisbane riverside restaurant, hyping Sydney’s overwhelming success in staging the Olympics and Paralympics almost 25 years ago. “After the tremendous success of Barcelona 1992, and the troublesome experiences of…
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