Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
What’s on today’s schedule? The first events are starting and already a shower of medals will fall on Paris in cycling, swimming, table tennis and taekwondo.
On the French team side, we will follow the entry into the competition of the Bleues and Bleus of goalball, respectively against Canada (2:45 p.m.) and Brazil (5:30 p.m.). At the same time, the mixed wheelchair rugby event will begin against Denmark before the entry of the French in the men’s sitting volleyball tournament against Kazakhstan (8 p.m.).
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 news of the Games, until the closing ceremony.
To go further
The Paralympic Games calendar
Paralympic Games Results
The Paralympic Games medal table
Paralympic Games: a festive opening ceremony in the heart of Paris for “change your perspective”
The flame was lit in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of Paralympism
The Seven Differences Between the Olympics and the Paralympics
Ahead of Paralympic competitions, Paris 2024 venues undergo a makeover
With the Paralympic Games, the accessibility of the Paris metro in question
Just over 1.9 million tickets sold for the Paralympic Games
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: Competitive sports and their adaptation to different types of disability
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”