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Cover image: Emeline Pierre after her victory in the 100m freestyle, at Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, September 1, 2024. Andrew Couldridge / REUTERS
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule? Initially scheduled for this Sunday “in view of the weather forecast”the triathlon events have been postponed by one day due to the drop in water quality in the Seine, the organizers announced early this morning. On the other hand, the French track cyclists will try to continue their harvest of rewards at the velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, with the team speed. We will also have to keep an eye on the Stade de France, where Timothée Adolphe will notably compete in his 400 m final, at 9:05 p.m. In Châteauroux, Tanguy de La Forest and Pierre Guillaume-Sage will aim for a new podium for the French sport shooting team.
In team sports, the French goalball team will face Japan at 7 p.m., while the sitting volleyball team will take on the United States at 8 p.m. In blind football, the French team will face the Chinese at 8:30 p.m.
Medals are expected in boccia, athletics, rowing, badminton, track cycling, swimming, table tennis, archery and sport shooting.
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”