Cover image: Brothers Alex (right) and Kylian Portal at the Paris La Défense Arena on August 31, 2024. Andrew Couldridge/REUTERS
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What is the program for the day?
Winner of Friday’s individual pursuit, Alexandre Léauté returns to the Vélodrome, in the C1-C3 kilometre. His compatriot Dorian Foulon will defend his title in the C5 pursuit won in Tokyo.
In table tennis, table tennis players Florian Merrien and Flora Vautier (mixed doubles XD7) compete in the semi-finals against Chinese Feng Panfeng and Zhou Ying (midday). The Clément Berthier-Esteban Herrault duo will also try to advance to the final against Chinese Liao Kei and Yan Shuo, in men’s doubles (MD14).
In swimming, Léane Morceau He will try to win his first medal in the 100m backstroke S12. In athletics, Timothée Adolphe and Gauthier Makunda will try to reach the semi-final of the 400m T11. Antonio Praud will compete in the 1,500m final (T46), as will Dimitri Jozwicki, who will also compete in the 100m (T38).
In team sports, the Blues will shine in goalball (United States-France, men, France-South Korea, women), wheelchair rugby (France-United Kingdom), wheelchair basketball (Germany-France, men) and sitting volleyball (France-Egypt, men).
Other medals will be awarded in shooting and archery. It is worth noting that the taekwondo competitions end this Saturday, August 31, giving way to the fencing competitions.
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”
