Cover image: Brothers Alex (right) and Kylian Portal, at Paris La Défense Arena, August 31, 2024. Andrew Couldridge / REUTERS
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule?
Winner of the individual pursuit on Friday, track cyclist Alexandre Léauté returns to the Vélodrome, with the C1-C3 kilometer. His compatriot Dorian Foulon will defend his title in the C5 pursuit acquired in Tokyo.
In table tennis, table tennis players Florian Merrien and Flora Vautier (mixed doubles XD7) are playing in the semi-final against the Chinese Feng Panfeng and Zhou Ying (midday). The duo Clément Berthier-Esteban Herrault will also try to reach the final against the Chinese Liao Kei and Yan Shuo, in the men’s doubles (MD14).
In swimming, Léane Morceau 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. Antoine Praud will be in the 1,500m final (T46), like 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 for the women), in wheelchair rugby (France – United Kingdom), in wheelchair basketball (Germany-France, men) and in sitting volleyball (France-Egypt, men).
Other medals will be awarded in shooting and archery. Note that the taekwondo competitions end this Saturday, August 31, and will be replaced by the fencing competitions.
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 latest news from the Games, right up 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”
Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee: “The Paralympic Games will be the most spectacular in history”
