Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule? And here we go for a new day of competition. The blind football tournament opens at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, like the wheelchair tennis tournament in the setting of Roland-Garros. This Friday, August 30, also marks the kickoff of the athletics events.
On the French team side, cyclist Alexandre Léauté enters the running in the pursuit at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome, as do the women’s doubles in wheelchair tennis with the pair Ksénia Chasteau-Pauline Déroulède and Charlotte Fairbank-Emmanuelle Mörch, and, in the men’s singles, Frédéric Cattanéo, Guilhem Laget and Gaëtan Menguy.
In team sports, the Blues will challenge Iran in goalball (1:15 p.m.), Canada in wheelchair basketball (6:15 p.m.), Australia in wheelchair rugby (7:30 p.m.) and Italy in sitting volleyball (8 p.m.).
Medals will be awarded in taekwondo, table tennis, athletics, swimming, track cycling and 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”
Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee: “The Paralympic Games will be the most spectacular in history”
