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Paris 2024 Paralympic: Deaf athlete to hear crowd's cheer for first time

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Suzanna Hext will compete in the S5 100 m freestyle at the Paris Paralympics in 2023 .

Rules change means she can wear her cochlear implants during her race.

Ms Hext was born with a hearing impairment and is now profoundly deaf.

She was left paralysed from the waist down after a "freak accident" while riding in 2012 .

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