The French para-cycling star could bring home several medals at the Paralympic Games. Don't look for the Léon Marchand of the Paralympic Games, the costume could fit perfectly to para cyclist Alexandre Léauté. The Frenchman, multiple world champion, could bring back several medals to the French delegation at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. He already has one, the gold in pursuit on Friday, August 30. Flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Games, Alexandre Léauté éhad left with four medals: silver for the kilometer, bronze in the time trial and the road race and above all, a gold in the individual pursuit where he broke the world record. Despite a rich list of achievements, the Frenchman was close to depression in 2024 as he explained after the World Track Championships from which he left with 4 medals (he now has 19 including 6 on the road). “Çit really wasn't going well until very recently, he says. The only thing that saved me a little was the bike. But I didn't give up. I wanted to say yes'à everything to not offend anyone. I was afraid of being unpleasant. But I had to get through this, to learn to say 'no'. I ended up understanding that if I didn't do it, it was my body that was going to give in. My head had already given up… I didn't feel legitimate to feel bad, he verbalizes. I'm living a crazy thing, I live from my job, lots of people would dream of being in my place. In my life, everything is extraordinary while I know that, for some, it's difficult to get up in the morning to go to work. I couldn't allow myself to complain." Alexandre Léauté suffered a stroke that partially impaired his motor skills and deprived him of 95% of the power in the right side of his body from birth. " I have had right hemiplegia since birth. It is a more or less severe impairment of motor skills on the right side of the body. right side of my body which causes several deficiencies (spasticity, problems straightening my arm and leg, foot deformation, loss of muscle strength and total insensitivity in my lower and upper limbs)” explained the Frenchman in an interview for Bleus handisport.
A stroke at birth
His record
By Teilor Stone
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