: Video Léon Marchand's double in less than an hour, the emotion of Aurélie Aubert, the flight of the cauldron… Relive the greatest moments of Paris 2024

The year 2024 will remain indefinitely linked to the Paris Games. Four months after the end of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the memory of this enchanted summer remains intact. Between the successes of the French representatives, the moments suspended in the stands or in the streets of Paris through the popular fervor, franceinfo: sport invites you to relive a selection of the most beautiful moments.

The supersonic rise of “King Léon” in the 200m butterfly

After winning gold a few moments earlier in the 200m breaststroke, Léon Marchand set the arena on fire. Paris La Défense Arena (Nanterre) in the 200m butterfly where he made a fantastic comeback over the Hungarian Kristof Milak, in the lead during three quarters of the race, on Wednesday July 31. The Toulouse swimmer then gleans his second and third gold medal on the same day.

The dance of joy for golden Rugby sevens

They kicked off the festivities in the best possible way. Led by Antoine Dupont at the top of his art, the Bleus du 7 won the first gold medal for the French delegation, the first in their history, last Saturday July 27, against the double title holders Fiji (28- 7). With the added bonus of a dance and communion with the public at the Stade de France.

Aurélie Aubert's tears of happiness in boccia

Like Léon Marchand, Aurélie Aubert took all the French people with her. The 27-year-old young woman won the first tricolor medal in the history of boccia, since the introduction of the discipline to the Paralympic program in 1984. Since Monday September 2, she has become one of the flagship athletes of these Paris 2024 Games.

Montmartre worthy of the atmosphere of the great passes of the Tour de France

The atmosphere there was indescribable. For a day, the Butte Montmartre was transformed into an Alpine pass during the Olympic road race. To top it off, the event crowned the Belgian Remco Evenepoel, already Olympic champion a few days earlier in the time trial, and saw two French runners shineValentin Madouas and Chistophe Laporte, respectively in silver and bronze on Saturday August 3.

Charles Noakes, gold to fall

Gold at the end of the racket. Surprise guest in the final, Charles Noakes had the best part of his life, on Monday September 2, 2024, by capturing Paralympic gold in parabadminton. In his explosion of joy, he fell crosswise, shirtless, on the pitch of the Adidas Arena and to the acclamation of a completely enthusiastic audience.

The Olympic cauldron and its magical flight at nightfall

This is one of the defining images of the Games. Judoka Teddy Riner and former athlete Marie-José Pérec, last bearers of the flame during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on Friday July 26, set the Olympic cauldron ablaze. The magic then continued, every evening in the Tuileries garden, where thousands of people flocked to witness its takeoff.

“Lebrun mania” stronger than ever

France has never been so excited about “ping”. Behind the brothers Alexis and Félix Lebrun, there is a whole country which exulted over the days at the Arena Paris Sud. After the bronze won in singles by Félix on Sunday August 4, the youngest of the siblings guided, five days later, the French team to a second bronze medal in teams. Historical.

Queen Simone Biles shined brightly

After being forced to abandon several events at the Tokyo Games in 2021 due to health problems, Simone Biles found the light again at Paris 2024. Among her four new medals, the American gymnast won three gold (team competition , all-around and vault) and one in silver for the floor exercise event.

The French blind football team lights up the Eiffel Tower

They took their revenge on the Tokyo Games, where they finished last. At home, the Blues, led by a sparkling Frédéric Villeroux, beat the Argentines (1-1, 3-2 on the tabs), the reigning world champions, on Saturday September 7, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. They thus signed a major feat by winning the first gold medal in their history.

The fate of French judokas sealed by roulette

The day of Saturday August 3 started badly for the French judokas in the team event, led 3-1 by the Japanese. The comeback is started by Joan-Benjamin Gaba then Clarisse Agbegnenou. The final blow is finally given by Teddy Riner, whose category (+90 kg) was drawn for the decisive fight, to the great dismay of their adversaries who, like in Tokyo, three years earlier, missed first place against to the Blues.

The women's sword writes its history

Never before had a French woman won the title in individual saber at the Olympic Games. Manon Apithy-Brunet remedied this on Monday July 29. The fencer won at the Grand Palais against her compatriot Sara Balzer, silver medalist. Manon Apithy-Brunet thus adds the Olympic gold that she was still missing, after having won individual bronze and team silver at the Games in Tokyo in 2021.

Three times more emotion in BMX

Between them, they left their mark on the history of their discipline and the Olympic Games. At Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines stadium, Joris Daudet, Sylvain André and Romain Mahieu offered 30 seconds of pure thrills to the spectators present on Saturday August 3, winning gold, silver and bronze respectively.

The Stade de France transformed into an electro club

An end with great fanfare. After several tables and formal speeches, the Stade de France, which hosted the closing ceremony of the Paralympic Games on Sunday September 8, turned into a giant discotheque, with, in its lair, around twenty big names of the “French Touch”. To conclude the evening, Martin Solveig launched a final mix, surrounded by many French athletes on stage.

“The armless archer” gets his first title

Matt Stutzman holds his first Paralympic title. For his fourth participation, the 41-year-old archer, born without arms, achieved an almost flawless performance against the Chinese Ai Xinliangmaking 14 perfect shots out of 15 possible, Sunday September 1st. The American, who handles the arch with his feet and the bottom of his head, has become a figure in the Paralympic movement since his first participation in the London Games in 2012.

Kauli Vaast tames the legendary Teahupo'o wave

Even more than 15,000 kilometers from the metropolis, Kauli Vaast has left no one indifferent. The Tahitian, who knows the legendary wave of Teahupo'o (Tahiti) by heart, was able to tame, on Tuesday August 6, this natural and capricious summer element to win the first Olympic surfing title for France, for the second participation of the event at the Olympics.

Cassandre Beaugrand in Majesty at the Invalides

The French triathlete met expectations at the best of times. In front of the Invalides, on the Pont Alexandre III, Cassandre Beaugrand raised the winner's banner, on Wednesday July 31, 2024, to win her first Olympic title. After following on the heels of the leaders in the freestyle swimming and cycling events, she made the difference in the 10km running race, her specialty.

French Volleyball players in the very closed circle of doubly golden nations

Before her, only Russia (former USSR), the United States and Brazil had won Olympic gold twice. In Paris 2024, the French volleyball players have therefore joined this “very select” club against Poland. They even retained their title, acquired in Tokyo three years earlier, as the USSR had done in 1964 and 1968, and the United States in 1984 and 1988.

Armand Duplantis, always higher, always more Mondo

The Swede did not just win gold in pole vault at the Stade de France. He also set the world record with a jump of 6.25 m, for which he already held the previous record (6.24 m). As if that were not enough, he had already erased from the shelves, a little earlier in the competition, the Olympic record of the Brazilian Thiago Braz (6.03 m), with a bar of 6.10 m.

The “gift of God” by Gabriel dos Santos Araujo

“A gift from God”, how Ineida Magda dos Santos, the mother of para-swimmer Gabriel dos Santos Araujo, speaks of her son's great talent. The Brazilian, standard bearer of his delegation, born without arms, with atrophy of the lower limbs, won in Paris with three Paralympic titles in the S2 category (200m freestyle, 50m backstroke and 100m backstroke). His undulations and his advance against the opponents left no one indifferent.