Weather conditions led to the cancellation of the last pool flight, over the Tuileries Basin. But despite the rain, the Stade de France will transform into a giant dance floor in the evening for an hour of musical entertainment around the theme 'Paris is a party'. French singer Santa opened the ball by performing “Live for the best”, Johnny Hallyday's song.
A tone highlighted by Tony Estanguet, the president of the organizing committee of the Games, celebrating a “historic” summer that “will remain engraved in us”.
19 gold medals
Among them, the Chinese delegation that finished at the top of this edition, for the sixth consecutive time, with 94 titles (220 medals), ahead of Great Britain (49 gold) and the United States (36 gold).
The French Paralympic delegation
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On the French side, the Paralympic boccia champion Aurélie Aubert and the para-shooting champion Tanguy De La Forest will be the standards of this meeting: the Blues have achieved their goal of entering the top 8 with 19 gold medals (75 medals in total), stated objective before the Games.
The torch will then be passed to Los Angeles, host of the next Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028.
12 million viewers this summer
2.5 million tickets were sold for these Paralympic Games, slightly less than in London. They come in addition to the 9.5 million tickets sold for the Olympics, or 12 million for the two events. The previous record was 11 million, organizers claimed.
Twelve years after the London Paralympic Games, founded with their popular and media success in mind, from now on “The Games of reference will be the Paris-2024 Games”, the president of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee, Marie-Amélie Le, said on Sunday Theft. “For all the speakers, the athletes, the staff, the foreign observers, this is the biggest Paralympic Games in history,” said the French delegation's chief of mission Michael Jeremiasz.
In terms of media coverage, the event was watched by 165 television channels, and 168 delegates participated in the competition, again unheard of.
It now remains to be seen whether these Paris Games will leave room for a solid legacy of consideration of the rights of persons with disabilities. For Michael Jeremiasz, head of mission for the Blues at the Paralympic Games, “we can't go back” at this point.
“Not a Charmed Bracket”
The latter hopes that the Paralympics “will contribute to the trivialization of the way we look at others, that the state and the government feel obliged to do the work and accelerate this transformation, that all the projects of access to this citizenship are put in place. place”, referring in particular to access to employment. “We have to make sure this is not a charmed bracket,” he warns, because “it would be worse than if we didn't hold the Games.”
The president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, spoke again on Sunday of the “metro for all” project, “the biggest transport challenge in the region in the coming decades”, as the very old Parisian network is criticized for lack of accessibility.