Tag: disabled sport
“You think about your race all the time, the stress goes up and down, it’s like that every day”
If children met Paralympic athletes, what questions would come to mind? This is the idea of our special series “Children’s World” broadcast on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Paralympic…
Adélia Ajami, French goalball player, a disabled sport with no equivalent at the Olympic Games
This is the first time that the French women are participating in the goalball competitions at the Paralympic Games. This Tuesday, September 3, the quarter-finals will be held and the…
Swimming, basketball then rugby: the thousand lives of French para-athlete Ryadh Sallem
Ryadh Sallem has had a thousand lives. At 53, the athlete will attempt to take on the most ambitious challenge of an impressive career in Paris. For his sixth participation…
For Nantenin Keïta, “it’s a huge source of pride” to carry the flag at the Paralympic Games
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paralympic Games is being held this Wednesday evening in Paris. Athlete Nantenin Keïta, Paralympic champion in the 400m in Rio, will carry the French…
Paralympics 2024: the costumes adapted for the performers of the opening ceremony
The Paralympic Games begin this Wednesday with the lighting of the cauldron at the end of the opening ceremony. The show will take place on the Champs-Élysées and the Place…
Paralympics 2024: Jeanne Le Pêcheur, paracyclist, carries the flame
Having left England on Saturday 24 August, the Paralympic flame continues its journey in France. This Tuesday 27 August 2024, it arrives in Île-de-France where several torchbearers await it. Among…
Paralympics 2024: immersion of the para-athletes’ equipment repair center
D-2 before the kick-off of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, with the opening ceremony on the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde. The Organizing Committee is hoping for the…
Paralympics 2024: in front of the Eiffel Tower, the sand gives way to synthetic grass
The Paralympic Games are getting closer! In Paris, 11 of the 15 Olympic competition venues will once again be used for the Paralympic Games, which requires some adaptations, such as…
What is the life of a para athlete?
Studio E In Europe, one in six people has a disability but less than one in two takes part in a physical activity. A few days before the opening of…
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…