“Come on, follow him! » This injunction of a disabled ski coach, the visually impaired skier Hyacinthe Deleplace still remembers. It was in Tignes, in 2016, during a training camp for the France team. “I had rented skis and boots, I managed to get in touch with the leaders of a French team course, I … Read more
Sport Trouble at the Paralympics 40 degree rise in temperature – “We are just the appendage” Status: 10:38 am | Reading time: 3 minutes 16 degrees, lots of sun, muddy artificial snow – that’s how it works at the Paralympics Source: dpa/Christoph Soeder At the Olympic Winter Games, the participants were still shaking from the … Read more
Tennis star Murray donates profits ‘House Bombed’: Worried para-biathlete wins bronze 3/9/2022 4:52 am As Ukrainian biathlete Dmitro Suyarko wins the 10-kilometer bronze medal at the Beijing Paralympics, he finds it difficult to concentrate. Because in his homeland his house was “bombed and destroyed”. He demands peace while another sports star donates his prize money. … Read more
Although it denies it, the French delegation, 18 strong, including four guides for blind or visually impaired skiers, takes advantage of the exclusion of Russian athletes during the Beijing Paralympic Games which open this Friday, March 4. First admitted, then refused following a reversal of the Paralympic Committee after the threat of several delegations to … Read more
Ivan Zaplin (left) and Ivan Kodlozerow trained on the Paralympic trails in Zhangjiakou on Wednesday morning. Shortly thereafter, their Russian team was expelled. Photo: imago images / Gavriil Grigorov It must have been a short night for many sports officials in the Paralympic Villages. Video calls, writing protest letters, threatening boycotts. On Thursday, the International … Read more
The French team’s medal basket has already tinkled three times in two days, since the start of the Paralympic Games in Beijing on Saturday March 5. There was Arthur Bauchet’s gold in standing downhill, Marie Bochet’s silver in standing Super-G, and Hyacinthe Deleplace’s bronze in downhill, visually impaired category. But we must not forget a … Read more
Oksana Schischkowa (left) and her guide Andrei Marchenko won gold in the biathlon sprint for the visually impaired. Photo: AFP/Thomas Lovelock For the team from Ukraine, the momentary joy at the golden start to the Paralympics quickly turned into sadness and concern for their homeland. “They are still very quiet and thoughtful in the village,” … Read more
Tricolor skiing made a remarkable entrance at the Paralympic Winter Games, which opened on Friday March 4, and until the 13th, in Beijing and in the surrounding mountains. It was skier Arthur Bauchet who opened the ball for French medals on Saturday 5 March. The 21-year-old sportsman brought France his first title in the competition, … Read more