During the first six months of 2024, The world follows French sportsmen and women who will participate in the Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11) or Paralympic Games (from August 28 to September 8) in Paris. Through reports, portraits and interviews, we tell you how they prepare for this meeting of a lifetime.
As part of this series called “Olympic Design”, you have the opportunity to interact directly with them during a chat organized on Lemonde.fr.
Today we welcome Nantenin Keïta, co-captain of the French Paralympic team with sprinter Trésor Makunda. The Franco-Malian sprinter has one of the finest records in French sport: four Paralympic medals, including gold in Rio (in 2016), in the 400m T13 (category reserved for visually impaired athletes with the slightest disability). At 39, the daughter of singer Salif Keïta announced that the Paris Games would be her last major event.
To go deeper
- About Nantenin Keïta
The final challenge for sprinter Nantenin Keïta, in search of one last Paralympic podium
At the 2021 Paralympic Games, Nantenin Keïta’s last lap
At the 2023 Para Athletics Worlds, the French are far from the mark one year before the Paralympic Games
The long strides of Nantenin Keïta for the recognition of albinos
- Our “Olympic Purpose” series
Portrait. Cyrille Chahboune, former commando amputee of both legs, rebuilt himself through sport
Portrait. Titouan Castryck, the crack who “revolutionizes” kayaking
Reporting. On the Games basin, Titouan Castryck, kayak hopeful, tames the cold and the swirls
Chat with judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou: “The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will for sure be my last”
“Olympic design”, a sensitive and different look at the preparation of the Games
- Our previous chats on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Ticketing, security, people with disabilities… Chat with Marie-Amélie Le Fur, Paralympic champion and president of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee
“The thirty days of competition must be successful, but the thirty years of heritage, that’s what motivates us,” according to Stéphane Troussel, president of the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
“Paris and Ile-de-France have a huge deficit in terms of equipment and places” to practice sport, according to Anne Hidalgo
“We don’t want to imagine the Olympic and Paralympic Games without the Ukrainians,” assures Amélie Oudéa-Castéra