On Sunday, September 1, 2024, Marie Patouillet managed to win a Paralympic gold medal in track cycling. The French rider celebrated this achievement with the one who currently shares her life, Soraya Garlenq.
Sunday, September 1, 2024, a “terrible image” was broadcast live on France 2, around 4:05 p.m. While the public channel was broadcasting a medal ceremony, a French Paralympic champion collapsed on the podium. Indeed, the runner Marie Patouillet was victim of a malaise when receiving her gold medal. To help her stay standing, members of the French delegation rushed to support her. The French Paralympic athlete finally needed a chair to sit on. Afterwards, the two runners who had respectively won the silver and bronze medals supported her in turn so that she remained standing during the French national anthem.
“She doesn’t feel well Marie. The emotion is too strong, she asks Marie Patouillet for help because it is the last big race of her career. It is her first big Paralympic gold medal. And now, she needs help to support all this. She will have to sit down“, declared the France Télévisions commentators throughout this sequence. As a reminder, Marie Patouillet had already won a silver medal on August 29, 2024 in track cycling. On Sunday, September 1, 2024, she won the individual pursuit (category C5, editor’s note). A surprise victory that she celebrated with his companion Soraya…
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