IT STINGS – Apart from the French blind football team, which came out of its group with two wins in three matches, the French co’ sports teams showed a worrying face compared to our competitors.
On Thursday, the French blind football team won the right to set the world’s most beautiful stadium alight again, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, for a historic quarter-final against Colombia, their first at this stage of the competition in their Paralympic history. But our blindfolded heroes are like the tree that hides the forest of French shortcomings in team para sports.
In addition to the elimination of the basketball players, after four defeats in as many matches, despite successful performances, notably against Germany, the Blues and Blues of goalball have never known victory, any more than the French sitting volleyball teams. And wheelchair rugby, despite its medal ambitions, has not passed the cut of the high level either. The cases are obviously all different, the contexts and dynamics too, but nevertheless, in a country accustomed to showing off when it comes to the French co-sports teams, as we saw again at the Olympics, the results are a bit bad.
Sitting volleyball players, the “Rasta Rockets” of these Games
How can we explain that in the space of seven years – the date on which Paris obtained the organization of the Games – we have not succeeded in laying the foundations of a real sports policy in order, not to shine, but to(…) - 20minutes
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