Cover image: During the taekwondo tournament at the Paris Paralympic Games, at the Grand Palais, on August 29, 2024. Maja Smiejkowska / REUTERS
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What is the program for the day? And off we go for another day of competition. The blind football tournament opens at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as does the wheelchair tennis tournament at Roland-Garros. Friday, August 30, also marks the start of the athletics events.
For the French team, cyclist Alexandre Léauté will be competing in the pursuit near the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, as will the women’s wheelchair tennis doubles with the pair Ksénia Chasteau-Pauline Déroulède and Charlotte Fairbank-Emmanuelle Mörch, and in the men’s singles, Frédéric Cattanéo, Guilhem Laget and Gaëtan Menguy.
In team sports, the Blues challenge Iran in goalball (13:15), Canada in wheelchair basketball (18:15), Australia in wheelchair rugby (19:30) and Italy in sitting volleyball (20:00).
Medals will be awarded in taekwondo, table tennis, athletics, swimming, track cycling and shooting.
Qualification for the Paralympic Games? To understand everything about the different categories of sports for the disabled, click here
What is it about? The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which will run until Sunday, September 8, are scheduled to take place. The last edition took place in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo.
What time? From Wednesday, August 28, The world opens a live broadcast every morning to follow the latest news from the Games, up to the closing ceremony.
To go deeper
The Paralympic Games calendar
Paralympic Games Results
The medal table of the Paralympic Games
A necessary classification to aspire to equity among athletes
Paralympic Games 2024: Competitive sports and their adaptation to different types of disabilities
2024 Paralympic Games: why there are no athletes with Down syndrome
The seven differences between the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games
With the Paralympic Games, the accessibility of the Paris metro is in question
How Paralympic athletes train their minds
Denis Hauw, professor of sports psychology: “We forget that failure is an integral part of high-level sport and that facing it is an essential objective”
Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee: “The Paralympic Games will be the most spectacular in history”
