PORTRAIT. Paralympic Games. Athletics: Pierre Fairbank, an inexhaustible thirst for sharing.

PORTRAIT.  Paralympic Games.  Athletics: Pierre Fairbank, an inexhaustible thirst for sharing.

On the athletic track of the Nouméa stadium, Pierre Fairbank and Nicolas Brignone are engaged in a fierce fight. The intensity is there, the will to win is there for both of them. Under the amused eye of their trainer, Olivier Deniaud, used to seeing these two champions, qualified for the Tokyo Paralympic Games, “get … Read more

Paralympic Games. Two gold medals, tennis final… What to remember from Tuesday

Paralympic Games.  Two gold medals, tennis final… What to remember from Tuesday

At the end of this seventh day of the Paralympic Games, France has totaled 33 medals. This Tuesday, August 31, five new metals came to garnish the French collection: two in gold, one in silver and two in bronze. The tricolor para-cycling was particularly successful, with four medals. Elsewhere, while there has been success in … Read more

Paralympic Games. Athletics: Charles-Antoine Kouakou in gold in the 400m. Sport

Paralympic Games.  Athletics: Charles-Antoine Kouakou in gold in the 400m.  Sport

France holds its 33rd medal, the sixth in gold! Para-athlete Charles-Antoine Kouakou won the 400m T20 (intellectually disabled) in Tokyo overnight. The Francilien, who evolves in the Hauts-de-Seine at Antony, completed the lap in 47’63, a great time. He had taken the 4th fastest time in the heats, before achieving the perfect race in the … Read more

Ligue 1. Weighed down by his individualities, Rennes defeated in Angers, the new leader of the championship.

Ligue 1. Weighed down by his individualities, Rennes defeated in Angers, the new leader of the championship.

The supporters present at the Raymond-Kopa stadium this Sunday, for the Angers – Rennes match on the occasion of the 4th day of Ligue 1, got their money’s worth. They saw rhythm, goals, expulsion, incredible individual errors … And Angers fans can be happy: they won a third success in four matches, to temporarily take … Read more

Paralympic Games. Why are cognitively handicapped athletes less represented? . Sport

Paralympic Games.  Why are cognitively handicapped athletes less represented?  .  Sport

The medals of Léa Ferney and Lucas Créange in table tennis change the game by 2024? Eclipsed by the Paralympic Games between 2000 and 2012, disabled athletes cognitive skills can only compete in three sports in Tokyo, none in Beijing at the Winter Games in five months. For athletes with mental disabilities, the next planetary … Read more

IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. Reims – PSG: relive the first minutes of Lionel Messi in Ligue 1. Sport

IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES.  Reims – PSG: relive the first minutes of Lionel Messi in Ligue 1.  Sport

That’s it, finally! Lionel Messi did play his first minutes in the jersey of Paris Saint Germain in Ligue 1, on this Sunday, August 29, 2021, which will be a milestone. Arrived last August 10 from FC Barcelona, where he will have spent 17 seasons, the Argentine legend, replacing at kick-off, entered in the 66th … Read more

Mercato. Frenchman Kurt Zouma leaves Chelsea for West Ham. Sport

Mercato.  Frenchman Kurt Zouma leaves Chelsea for West Ham.  Sport

The amount of the transfer, not communicated by the Hammers, is estimated at 29.8 million pounds (about 34.8 million euros) by the specialized press. At 26, the former player of AS Saint-Etienne arrives at West Ham in the skin of a potential holder. He is committed until 2025. “Our first choice” He has always been … Read more

US Open. At what time and on which channel to watch the New York tournament? . Sport

US Open.  At what time and on which channel to watch the New York tournament?  .  Sport

After a 2020 edition completely turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, contested in complete closed doors, theUS Open returns in 2021 with its famous audience and can be historic in more than one way. At New York, Novak Djokovic could win his 21st Grand Slam title and overtake Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, current … Read more

Athletics. Meeting de Paris: Kerley is ahead of Bednarek on the 200m. Sport

Athletics.  Meeting de Paris: Kerley is ahead of Bednarek on the 200m.  Sport

American Fred Kerley, Olympic 100m vice-champion, got the better of his compatriot Kenneth Bednarek, Olympic vice-champion in the 200 m, on Saturday on the half-lap of the Paris meeting. Kerley improved his personal best to win the 200m in 19 sec 79 (+1.6 m / s of wind) for 5 thousandths of a second ahead … Read more

Paralympic Games. Table tennis: Kamkasomphou, Thomas, Créange… Rain of medals

Paralympic Games.  Table tennis: Kamkasomphou, Thomas, Créange… Rain of medals

Three medals of the same bronze metal fell in table tennis last night for France! The experienced Thu Kamkasomphou, 52, has signed a sixth individual podium (Class 8) in six Paralympic Games. She started her Paralympic adventure in 2000 with a title in Sydney (in Class 9 at the time). As in Rio, wheelchair table … Read more