Tag: 2024 Paralympic Games
2024 Olympics: The Naudet brothers reveal the behind the scenes of the Games through a series
Jules and Gédéon Naudet, Franco-American documentary filmmakers known for their documentaries on the attacks on the World Trade Center and on November 13, 2015, are producing a series devoted to…
2024 Olympics: Double Olympic and Paralympic call-up for disabled athlete Bruna Alexandre
Brazilian athlete Bruna Alexandre is doubly concerned by the Games this summer. She is the first Paralympic athlete from her country to have also been called up for the Olympic…
Héloïse Courvoisier or the beautiful story of a para-triathlete
Héloïse Courvoisier, 26, has qualified for the triathlon events of the 2024 Paralympic Games. A sport she discovered in 2020 after the confinement due to Covid-19. Interview. 2 min Sometimes,…
Without rewards or prizes, disabled athletes are invisible outside the Games
Flowers picked in a field as a reward, forgotten medals, non-existent bonuses… Little recognized during sports competitions, athletes with disabilities are fighting for visibility beyond the Paralympic Games, which are…
the Paralympic movement told at the Pantheon
“Paralympic Stories”, an exhibition presented as part of the Cultural Olympiad until September 29, highlights the history of the Paralympic movement. 2 mins In the world of parasport, the time…
Paralympic Games: is the enthusiasm equal to the stakes?
The organizers present them as “the return match” of the Olympics but two and a half months before the start of the competitions, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are struggling…
D-100 before the Paralympic Games: “We must mobilize the French and the world around the athletes”
We are 100 days away from the Paris Paralympic Games, an event that risks taking place in largely empty stadiums. Public enthusiasm remains low and only a third of tickets…
At D-100, final stretch before the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games
This Monday, May 20 marks 100 days before the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will open on August 28. For the first time, France will host the…
between 6.7 and 11.1 billion in economic benefits expected for Île-de-France
The economic benefits of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for Paris and its region will be between 6.7 and 11.1 billion euros, according to a study published this Tuesday, May…
In Paris, garbage collectors threaten to strike during the 2024 Olympics
A strike which awakens bad memories in terms of the image of the French capital. In March 2023, the mobilization of Paris garbage collectors against pension reform resulted in piles…