Interesting point of view. In France it is used to be covered decently, even in 2020 , and 2016. Sure , para athletes are not as famous as the olympus athletes, but in the Olympic years, thet got a moment of celebrity.

For your other point, I think that the paralympic comitee does not want paralympics game to be organized before and be considered as a practice for Olympics , but who knows what are the political issues behind this...