Published on 04/23/2024 11:03
Duration of the video: 3 min Paris 2024: the resilience of French archer Damien Letulle Paris 2024: the resilience of French archer Damien Letulle (France 2)
Present on the set of 8 Heures, Tuesday April 23, journalist Samuel Ollivier is interested in Damien Letulle. A pillar archer of the French team in the 1990s, he became partly quadriplegic after an accident and intends to win a medal at the Paris Paralympic Games.
Damien Letulle was a pillar archer of the French team in the 1990s. He also participated in the Olympic Games in Atlanta (United States) in 1996. But on November 7, 1997, at Insep, his life Rocking. “I went out onto the terrace and sat on a plastic dome. As I sat down, it broke under my weight. I fell through it, which gave me a significant bruise on the brain and broke my cervical vertebrae quite high up”explains Damien Letulle, adding that this caused him a “incomplete quadriplegia”because he still has the mobility of his arms, but not that of his fingers or his legs.
His “competitive soul” has not left him
At the time of his accident, he was only 25 years old. “The competitive soul, the rage to win, have not left Damien Letulle”, indicates journalist Samuel Ollivier, present on the set of 8 Heures, Tuesday April 23. He intends to win a medal at the Paralympic Games in Paris. “As his fingers are no longer functional, Damien shoots his arrows by activating the release with a slight rotation of the elbow”specifies the journalist.
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