Cover image: The French team during the Cecifoot France-Colombia match in Paris, September 5, 2024. MATHIAS BENGUIGUI FOR “THE WORLD”
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule? The day after a day with eleven medals, French cycling is aiming for new titles on Thursday, in the road races. They will start at 9:30 a.m. with Florian Jouanny (H1-2), before Anaïs Vincent (H1-4), Loïc Vergnaud (H5), Joseph Fritsch (H4), and Johan Quaile and Mathieu Bosredon (H3) set off.
In sport shooting, Cédric Fèvre and Jean-Louis Michaud will attempt, from 9:30 a.m., to qualify for the mixed prone rifle final (SH1), which will take place at the end of the morning, from 11:45 a.m.
At 9:46 a.m. the swimming heats will begin, with Laurent Chardard, competing in the 100 m freestyle (S6), and Elodie Lorandi, in the 400 m freestyle (S10). Hector Denayer and Ugo Didier will compete in the heats of the 200 m medley (SM9) at 10:29 a.m.
In wheelchair fencing, the team foil event will begin at 10 a.m. for the French women, who will face Brazil in the round of 16. The French will play against Japan in the quarter-finals, starting at 12:40 p.m.
In archery, in the mixed team recurve bow event, France will face Poland in the round of 16 at 10 a.m.
In blind football, the Blues will try to secure their place in the final against Colombia, at 5:30 p.m. In wheelchair basketball, finally, the players of the French team will face the Netherlands, at 6:15 p.m., for a classification match.
Classification at the Paralympic Games? To understand everything about the different categories of disabled sports, click here
What is it about? The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, which run until Sunday, September 8. The last edition took place in the summer of 2021 in Tokyo.
What time? Since Wednesday August 28, The World opens a live broadcast every morning to follow the news of the Games, until the closing ceremony.
To go further
The Paralympic Games calendar
Paralympic Games Results
The Paralympic Games medal table
A classification necessary to aim for fairness between athletes
2024 Paralympic Games: Competitive sports and their adaptation to different types of disabilities
Paralympic Games 2024: why there are no athletes with Down syndrome
The Seven Differences Between the Olympics and the Paralympics
With the Paralympic Games, the accessibility of the Paris metro 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 confronting it is an essential objective”
