Tag: Paralympic Games
2024 Paralympic Games: Charles-Antoine Kouakou, the nugget of athletics spotted in Seine-Saint-Denis
Paralympic champion over 400 meters in 2021, Charles-Antoine Kouakou, an athlete with a mental disability, was spotted in a medical-educational institute in Saint-Denis as a teenager. This podcast retraces the…
the French wheelchair basketball team is not guaranteed to be at the Paralympic Games
Emmanuel Macron participates in a wheelchair basketball match during Paralympic Day, October 8, 2023. ERIC TSCHAEN/POOL/SIPA A few months before the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, it should have…
Mental preparation adapts to the specificities of parasport
Greek Grigorios Polychronidis (right) and his assistant, Aikaterini Patroni, during the individual boccia competition in Tokyo, September 1, 2021. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP When Sonia Heckel learned, a few months…
How to navigate mental preparation techniques in sport
During training for the French fencing team in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), September 22, 2023. ED ALCOCK / ED ALCOCK / MYOP FOR THE WORLD In the age of social networks, what…
“Coaches are not trained in sports psychology”
Psychology researcher Jean Fournier in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), September 22, 2023. ED ALCOCK/MYOP FOR “THE WORLD” Jean Fournier is a psychologist, lecturer at Paris-Nanterre University and former president of the French…
In France, the mental preparation of athletes has become essential but is still not regulated
Fabien Galthié and the French rugby team at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh (Scotland), August 5, 2023. DAVID GIBSON/FOTOSPORT/SHUTTERST / DAVID GIBSON/FOTOSPORT/SHUTTERST “In our time, the mental trainer had absolutely no…
Are you ready for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
There you go, 2024 is here, or almost. And in seven months, on July 26, the ships will set sail on the Seine for an opening ceremony of the Olympic…
Yannick Noah named captain of the French wheelchair tennis team
Yannick Noah has been named captain of the French men’s wheelchair tennis team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (August 28 to September 8), the French Tennis Federation (FFT) announced…
the Organizing Committee draws from its reserve to keep the Games budget in balance
This is the last budget revision before summer 2024 for the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop). Unlike the previous time, the presentation of the Paris 2024…
the journey of the Paralympic flame revealed, from the cradle of parasport, in England, to Paris
Who says return of the Games says return of the flame. Paris 2024 keeps repeating it: the Paralympic Games (JP) – from August 28 to September 8 – will be…
“Emmanuel Macron challenged to include the Games in a political vision”
DThese words have been there for a week. It’s a little more than words that will be needed in the weeks to come. If, since October 28, the Rugby World…
Seine-Saint-Denis, at the heart of the Paralympic marathon and para-cycling
After honoring the iconic sites of French heritage during the presentation of the marathon (Castle of Versailles), the triathlon (Alexandre III Bridge) or road cycling (Butte Montmartre) of the Olympic…