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Between daily life and training, an immersion in the everyday world of disabled sportsmen and women.
Culture and lifestyle | Sport and leisure
Episode 1
11 min
Axel Zorzi - chasing the stopwatch
Less than 11 seconds is the time it takes Axel to run 100 metres. The young sprinter from the French para athletics team invites us to join him for a training session.
Episode 2
12 min
Gaëlle Edon - on target
An encounter with the radiant Gaëlle Edon, para shooting champion and inventor of the "pelle tenace", an innovative system that enables those with only one arm to row with two oars.
Episode 3
12 min
Clément Colomby - of water and of gold
Clément Colomby: one of the greatest French athletes in adaptive sport with nearly fifty international medals in swimming and Nordic skiing.
Episode 4
10 min
David Quichante - the song of the motor
David Quichante is the first disabled racing driver to take part in the Renault Clio Cup. Veritable adrenaline junkie, he recounts his story and how it took him from the ski slopes to the motor racing circuit.
Episode 5
9 min
Quentin Fernandez-Anssoux - the finesse of fencing
Wheelchair fencing is a spectacular sport. We meet one of the leading French hopes for both epee and foil. Quentin Fernandez-Anssoux!
Episode 1
11 min
Amine Souabni - Wheelchair football
Amine Souabni has used a wheelchair since age four and is captain of Lyon's Fanion handisport electric wheelchair football team. He was selected for the 2023 World Cup. Thanks in part to his performance, France was crowned world wheelchair football champions in the same year.
Episode 2
11 min
Océane Garnier - Boccia
Océane Garnier suffers from Schwartz-Jampel syndrome and has been passionate about sport since she was a child. She began playing boccia at six and took part a few years later in her very first French championships in 2014, aged just 13.
Episode 3
12 min
Grégoire Berthon - Triathlon
Grégoire Berthon, a former top-level triathlete, suffered an accident in 2022 but is not restricted by his disability. After a few months of rehabilitation, Grégoire joined the French team and crossed the Alexandre III bridge in 5th place at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Episode 4
12 min
Kada Boualia - Goalball
Kada Boualia, who is visually impaired, has been a member of the French men's goalball team since 2017. He has already taken part in several European championships and competed at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Episode 5
12 min
Mouhamed Gaye - Wheelchair basketball
Mouhamed was only eight when he lost his leg in an accident. It was sport that helped him overcome his disability. A great para-athletics in Senegal, he decided to stay in France to hone his wheelchair basketball skills.
Between daily life and training, an immersion in the everyday world of disabled sportsmen and women.
Coverage of the 10th Vendée Globe, the single-handed, non-stop, non-assisted round-the-world sailing race, with daily and weekly summaries plus a 52 minute programme. The skippers will be sailing some 45,000 kilometres around the globe, passing the Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn. Starting and finishing at Les Sables d'Olonne.
