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Paris Olympic medals celebrate Braille

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The medals awarded at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will be embossed with Paris 2024 in Braille to honour the French inventor of the reading and writing system for visually impaired people, Louis Braille. So who was he and how did he come to invent the system?

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2024 Olympic medals will be embossed with Braille to honour Louis Braille – hear his story here
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  • Alasdair

    Alasdair Hutton has been associated with blind welfare since the 1970s when he edited and narrated the Playback audio magazine in Glasgow and contributed to the now closed Soundaround audio magazine. He joined Borders Talking Newspapers in 1997 as a volunteer reader and is presently the charity’s Convener.

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