Tag: France report
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…
Yvan Wouandji, blind football player: “The Games are about sharing, sweating, giving your all, committing”
At the Paralympic Games, blind football players made their debut in the competition. In the French team, ten players have been selected for the Games, but the Blues must do…
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…
Paralympic Games: the extraordinary journey of French archer Damien Letulle
The first individual archery events will take place this Thursday, August 29 on the Esplanade des Invalides. Archer Damien is competing in category W1, reserved for athletes with a disability…
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 place in Paris for the ten “golden women” of the Olympic ceremony?
What will remain of the Paris Olympics after the summer? During the opening ceremony, for the “sisterhood” tableau, ten golden statues of great female figures who have made French history…
Olympic and Paralympic Games: Operation Sentinel in Paris
For the Olympic and Paralympic Games, up to 20,000 soldiers are mobilized. These soldiers in fatigues from the Sentinelle force patrol throughout Paris, to support the police, and to avoid…