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 […]
Leonie Walter at the 2022 Paralympics: St. Peter is upside down – sport
Since Tuesday morning, Renate Walter has been able to describe what happens when the community of St. Peter in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is happy about a gold medal. It’s lucky to be able to reach her at all, she says on the phone, and during the conversation the cell phone rings again in the […]
China at the Paralympics: The nice glow of the medals – Sport
Most Chinese haven’t heard what was probably most important to Andrew Parsons. “Peace,” yelled the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) at the end of his speech at the opening ceremony. “I am appalled by what is happening in the world right now,” he had previously said. But his statements on the political world […]
Paralympics: First gold for Germany – Forster cries twice
Sport After six seconds behind First gold for Germany – Forster cries twice Stand: 07.03.2022 | Reading time: 2 minutes Gold! Unbridled joy at Anna-Lena Forster Source: dpa/Christoph Soeder The German team wins its first gold medal at the Beijing Paralympics. Anna-Lena Forster was actually hopelessly behind in the super combination. “I never would have […]
At the Paralympic Games, equipment in the race for medals
When Jordan Broisin sets off on the slopes of Yanqing for the alpine skiing events of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, organized from March 4 to 13, he will not only rely on his sense of trajectory. The hopes of the Haut-Savoyard, whose left leg was amputated after a motorcycle accident, will also rest on […]
Anna-Lena Forster at the Paralympics: gold as relief – sport
Anna-Lena Forster had a real premonition. She won four titles at the World Paralympic Snow Sports Championships in Lillehammer in January and, of course, has been asked if she plans to repeat that at the Paralympics in Beijing. Forster then urged caution, after all, her strongest competitor in monoskiing, the discipline for wheelchair users, was […]
at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, these skiers who follow their guide
The French team’s medal basket has already tinkled three times in two days, since the start of the Paralympic Games in Beijing on Saturday March 5. There was Arthur Bauchet’s gold in standing downhill, Marie Bochet’s silver in standing Super-G, and Hyacinthe Deleplace’s bronze in downhill, visually impaired category. But we must not forget a […]
Medals for Peace (nd-aktuell.de)
Oksana Schischkowa (left) and her guide Andrei Marchenko won gold in the biathlon sprint for the visually impaired. Photo: AFP/Thomas Lovelock For the team from Ukraine, the momentary joy at the golden start to the Paralympics quickly turned into sadness and concern for their homeland. “They are still very quiet and thoughtful in the village,” […]