Inclusion of people with disabilities through sport

Audio 48:30

Former F1 driver Alex Zanardi, during the 23rd Rome marathon in the disabled category, April 2, 2017 AFP / Archives

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

50 mins

Athletics, blind football, goalball, wheelchair basketball ... are some of the sports disciplines practiced at the Paralympic Games which brought together more than 4,300 athletes during the last Rio Games in Brazil in 2016.

Publicity

High-level sport is no longer reserved for able-bodied people but beyond the showcase of these international events, can sport at all ages and all levels be a factor of inclusion for people with disabilities?

How to develop suitable infrastructures?

How to improve the visibility of disabled sports?  

From May 17 to 23, 2021, the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), in partnership with the French government and the French Paralympic and Sporting Committee (CPSF) are organizing the “Jouons ensemble” operation to promote the visibility of parasport  

With:

Laetitia Bernard

, journalist at radio France and French champion in disabled sports show jumping.

Author of 

My life is a team sport

 (Stock) 

Camille Guillou, member of

the Finistère Departmental Committee of the French Handisport Federation

Abdel Rahman

, President of

the National Paralympic Committee of Benin

.

Member of the Benin wheelchair basketball team.

Musical programming:

Disabled

- L'Originale K

Attaa Adwoa

 - Bosom P Young  

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