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Sport and disability: how do these champions prepare?

On the occasion of the Paralympic Games which took place in Beijing from March 4 to 13, 2022, we are talking about disabled sports.

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By: Igor Strauss

1 min

On the occasion of the Paralympic Games which took place in Beijing from March 4 to 13, and a few weeks after the European wheelchair rugby championship which took place from February 22 to 26 at the Halle de Carpentier in Paris, we let's talk about disabled sports.

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Sports activity, when one has a disability, can be beneficial to health, facilitate social integration and represent a space of solidarity and hope.

The Paralympic Games are an example of this, but the practice is not always simple: it requires specific supervision and suitable equipment, which is not always easy to access.

How do these champions prepare physically and psychologically?

Priorité-santé gives the floor to top athletes to try to understand the drivers of performance.

• Mary Delaunay,

  president of the 

  Nanterre Foot Armchair

  .

  And teacher in adapted physical activity in his club.

• Arnaud Assoumani

  , five-time Paralympic medalist (Gold in long jump in 2008).

• Brahim Sebiane

  , plays

  wheelchair football from Nanterre

  , suffers from brittle bone disease 

At the end of the program

, we find the nutrition chronicle of

, nutritionist and director of

in Bamako, Mali. 

► All chronicles are accessible 

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