Cover image: Alexis Hanquinquant wins the PTS4 individual Paralympic triathlon in Paris on September 2, 2024. MATHIAS BENGUIGUI/PASCO AND CO FOR “LE MONDE”
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule? Due to a “deterioration of the water quality of the Seine”all triathlon events, scheduled for Sunday, take place on Monday, September 2. The first of the eleven, that of the men in the PTWC category, begins at 8:15 a.m.
But the morning show will not be limited to the triathlon. At 10:30 a.m., Aurélie Aubert will face Singaporean Yee Ting Jeralyn Tan in the boccia final (BC1). At the same time, the French will take turns in the pools to try to secure a place in the final later in the day. Expected on the starting blocks will be Hector Denayer and Ugo Didier (50 m freestyle S9), Assya Maurin-Espiau (100 m breaststroke SB14), Solène Sache (100 m breaststroke SB4) and the French team in the mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay (34 points).
In table tennis, archery and goalball, the Tricolores will try to continue to advance in their respective competitions. The Blues in wheelchair basketball will face Great Britain at 7:15 p.m., those in sitting volleyball will face Bosnia-Herzegovina at 8 p.m., and those in blind football will measure up to Brazil at 8:30 p.m. At the end of the day, Charles Noakes and Lucas Mazur will aim for the gold medal in badminton.
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”
