Topping her list of highlights from the Paris Paralympic Games is the sports journalist from New York Times, The AthleticCharlotte Harpur played in the final of blind football between France and Argentina on Saturday 7 September, which was won by Les Bleus on penalties. The visually impaired players had to be able to hear the instructions of their guide behind the net. As a result, the stands remained silent and “You could have heard a pin drop” The journalist writes; but when Argentina missed its shot, giving the victory to France, “The crowd erupted, the stands shook.” For her, “This moment sums up what it meant for the French to host the Games”.
Like their colleagues, many foreign journalists are expressing a certain astonishment at the end of the Olympic sequence in Paris, which opened on 26 July and concluded on Sunday with the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games. For the sport, for the atmosphere and for what these two spectacular competitions have made of the French capital, for a summer.
Thus, the Belgian newspaper the afternoon takes stock of the Paralympic Games “more than positive”. The 4,400 athletes dedicated “magnificent moments of grace and emotion,” and the newspaper also appreciates the presence “enthusiastic and attentive volunteers” as well as “perfectly safe and generally very accessible sites.” As for the environment, the British newspaper notes: The Independent, “Many competitions took place in front of packed stands and in atmospheres rarely experienced in parasport”.
“A farewell that will leave a mark”
On the other side of the Channel still, the Guardian provides a glowing account of the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games, “a farewell that will be a milestone” having brought together the best of French electronic music, including “Godfather of synthesizers” Jean-Michel Jarre, who performed a performance “with accents of uproar”, while the “Magic of the French touch” has “pointed” When Martin Solveig covered Daft Punk’s hit, One more time.
In political and sports matters, the closing of the Paralympic Games makes one write The conversation that he is “It is time to take into account the feats” athletes with disabilities. In many cases, their performance “match or surpass those of their counterparts at the Olympic Games”two researchers invited by the media point out. And let us recall the case of the American Paralympic swimmer Trischa Zorn, winner of 55 medals (41 of them gold), compared to the 28 medals (23 of them gold) of her compatriot Michael Phelps.
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