Blues on time and stunning Ukrainians
He had opened the ball, and undertook to close it in the same way: as a virtuoso. Skier Arthur Bauchet sounded the first Marseillaise of the French Paralympic team at the very start of the Games in Beijing, Saturday March 5, by winning gold in the downhill. The 21-year-old champion executed his last score perfectly […]
Sport and politics: after the Paralympics and Olympics in Beijing: a different neutrality (nd-aktuell.de)
Frosty games: The Paralympics in Beijing ended on Sunday with the closing ceremony. Foto: imago images/Matic Klansek “I wish you all success and good luck. Thanks very much. Peace!” Andrew Parsons shouted at the Beijing stadium on Friday last week. However, the television audience in the host country, China, was not able to catch all […]
Snowboard Oguri Daichi’s challenge and growth. The stance change is “feeling like a baseball right-handed batter becomes a left-handed batter” | Parasports | Shueisha’s sports magazine Sportiva official website web Sportiva
Daichi Oguri (Sanshin Kagaku Kogyo / Thigh Prosthesis LL1 class), one of the leading snowboarders in Japan, did not reach the podium he was aiming for for the second Paralympic Games. 5th in his favorite snowboard cross and 7th in Banked Slalom. “I’m disappointed. I want to improve my skills for the next four years.” […]
Paralympics: In Search of Youth – Sport
The cross-country skiing coach Albert Kürner had always thought it was a cliché that professional athletes speak into microphones after success: that they have not yet “realized” what they have just achieved. On Tuesday of this week he knew how it feels. The chairman of the St. Peter ski club in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district told […]
Second gold in Beijing: Forster dominates slalom
Anna-Lena Forster at the slalom in Beijing Image: EPA The 26-year-old monoskier easily outperforms the competition in Beijing. She wins her second gold medal with a lead of 2.32 seconds. Anna-Lena Forster impressively won the second gold medal at the Paralympics in Beijing. The 26-year-old monoskier finished Saturday’s slalom in the sitting class ahead of […]
Father of Paralympic athlete held prisoner of war
Dhe Ukrainian para-biathlete Anastasiia Laletina has prematurely withdrawn from competition at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. The background is the capture of her father, who serves in the Ukrainian army, by Russian troops. A spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Paralympic Committee confirmed this to the FAZ. The 19-year-old athlete will be flown to Poland at […]
Paralympics in winter at 16 degrees in Beijing: snow is melting
Dhe significantly rising temperatures in the two main locations of the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing are fueling concerns about the most difficult conditions over the past few days. There could be an increased risk of falling and a lack of equal opportunities. At the same time, the conditions also lead to new criticism of […]
Paralympics trouble: 40 degrees warmer – “We’re just the appendage”
Sport Trouble at the Paralympics 40 degree rise in temperature – “We are just the appendage” As of 10:38 a.m | Reading time: 3 minutes 16 degrees, plenty of sun, muddy artificial snow – that’s what the Paralympics are all about Source: dpa/Christoph Soeder At the Olympic Winter Games, the participants were still shaking from […]
Marco Maier wins silver in cross-country skiing in Beijing
Scross-country skier Marco Maier won his second silver medal at the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. The 22-year-old from Oberstdorf was only beaten by Frenchman Benjamin Daviet in the standing class sprint final. 15-year-old Linn Kazmaier won bronze in the visually impaired class with guide Florian Baumann. “I have an incredible feeling,” said Maier, who […]
Hyacinthe Deleplace, from one track to another
“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 […]