The sports documentary series is in fashion.

After

Sunderland 'til I die

on the English football club or

Drive to survive

on the Formula 1 championship, the town hall of Paris has also launched itself into the niche by offering from this Wednesday a Web series following the preparation of athletes for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP). The municipality is financially or logistically supporting 54 athletes for this crucial event and therefore intends to publicize it, also with a major poster campaign in the city.

For now, two three-episode seasons are planned, with the possibility that the series will continue.

In the first episode, we follow judoka Benjamin Axus, badminton player Anne Tran, cyclist Riadh Tarsim, climber Solenne Piret and rider José Letartre.

The main interest of the documentary is to reveal to us the underside of disciplines not necessarily publicized, such as climbing or badminton.

Personalities less exposed to the media and therefore more authentic with quite incredible life paths and characters.

Notably because three of the five athletes are disabled.

A child of the slums

The course most charged with emotions is undoubtedly that of José Letartre.

Born without legs in a slum of Caracas in Venezuela, he was abandoned by his mother at the age of two on the advice of nuns who then sent him to France.

He then arrives in the Lot, at the age of 4, in a host family, the Letartre, who will introduce him to horse riding.

But there is also Riadh Tarsim, boss in a wheelchair of a large transport and lifting SME.

Coming from the districts of Valenton, he leads his life at 100 an hour and only participates to win, whether in his job or on the track.

Finally Solenne Piret, born without a right forearm, who learned through climbing, loved her body that she hid so much when she was little.

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  • Paris

  • Ile-de-France

  • Paris 2024 Olympics

  • Paris city hall

  • Documentary

  • Sport