Cover image: The Paris 2024 mascots on the Alexandre III bridge with the Eiffel Tower in the background. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What is the program for the day? The first competitions have begun and Paris will already be showered with medals in cycling, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo.
As for the French team, we will be following the entry into competition of the Bleses and Bleses of goalball, respectively against Canada (2:45 p.m.) and Brazil (5:30 p.m.). At the same time, the mixed wheelchair rugby event will begin against Denmark, before the French enter the men’s sitting volleyball tournament against Kazakhstan (8:00 p.m.).
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
Paralympic Games: a festive opening ceremony in the heart of Paris for “change your perspective”
The flame was lit in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of Paralympics
The seven differences between the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games
Before the start of the Paralympic competitions, the venues for Paris 2024 are changing
With the Paralympic Games, the accessibility of the Paris metro is in question
Just over 1.9 million tickets sold for the Paralympic Games
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Competitive sports and their adaptation to different types of disabilities
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”
