This Saturday, the day started with two more medals for para-cycling. The essentials Live In wheelchair fencing, the French women will face China, the real scarecrow of the discipline. It will be 2:10 p.m. In wheelchair fencing, in the team épée, France reached the semi-finals after its victory in the quarter-finals against the Hong Kong team. Brianna Vide offered a final relay of great quality and exulted at the same time as the Grand Palais. Brianna Vide offered herself the first two touches of this relay! France is at three touches of the wheelchair fencing semi-final. Athletes, spectacular performances, disciplines… Find images of the 2024 Paralympic Games Brianna Vide has the weight of the French epee team on her back. She completes the last relay of this quarter-final at 40-40. In wheelchair fencing, nothing is yet decided in this team quarter-final. France has just caught up with 38-38 in a highly charged Grand Palais. Before the last two relays of wheelchair fencing by teams in l'épéée, the French are led by three touches by the Hong Kongers. In wheelchair fencing, the French para-fencing athletes are once again behind in this quarter-final. They are down by one touch but anything is still possible with three relays to go. “I don't realize it. Honestly, I was going to be defeatist against him, I don't even know what happened. I was very nervous at the beginning because I knew he was “stronger than me,” Lucas Didier explained to France Télévisions after winning his semi-final in para table tennis. The French para-judoka lost her repechage fight and will therefore not be able to compete for the bronze medal in these 2024 Paralympic Games. It's a repechage fight that awaits Prescillia Leze in these 2024 Paralympic Games. If she wins, she will be able to fight for the bronze medal this afternoon. As France overtakes Hong Kong in the wheelchair fencing score, referees and coaches are called to discuss Brianna Vide's way of fighting. She sometimes lifts both buttocks off the chair, which is forbidden. Cécile Demaude finishes her wheelchair fencing relay. The score is 20-20 at the Grand Palais. In wheelchair fencing, the French women face Hong Kong in the quarter-finals. There is currently 18-17 for the Hong Kong women but it is very tight. It is a more reassuring fight than the first. Helios Latchoumanaya pushes aside the Brazilian in para-judo and joins the -90kg final. She will be followed during the afternoon session which begins at 3:30 p.m. The big favorite in his category in para-judo is on the tatami for a place in the final. He faces the Brazilian Marcelo Adriano Casanova. The French para-table tennis player will meet the Belgian Laurens Devos in the para-table tennis final of these 2024 Paralympic Games at 5 p.m. We have already can't wait to be there as the atmosphere for his semi-final was so great. WHAT A MATCH! Lucas Didier achieves a feat and qualifies for the para-table tennis final of the 2024 Paralympic Games. The French para-pong player leads 6-2 in the last round against the French team. Ma Lin. He's getting closer to the final! Here we go too quickly for the Frenchman who lost on ippon against Moldvae Ion Basoc. He will fight for bronze later in the day. In para-judo, Jason Grandry will try to secure his place in the final of the 2024 Paralympic Games with a fight against Moldovan Ion Basoc. Once again Lucas Didier reacts and comes back to two sets each in a great atmosphere. The place in the final of the Paralympic Games will be decided in a fifth and final set. Ma Lin won the third set and now leads two sets to one against the French Lucas Didier in this semi-final of the para-table tennis. In para-kayak, Rémy Boullé finished third in the final in KL1 and will have to settle for the bronze medal in these 2024 Paralympic Games. The French para-table tennis player is back in full swing in this table tennis semi-final by winning the second set against Ma Lin. He won 11-9. Two more medals in para-cycling! Thomas Peyroton-Dartet and Alexandre Léauté won silver and bronze in the C1-C3 race. These medals almost have a bitter taste when the Blues were in the lead digital. READ MORE Discover a focus on all the sports of the Paralympic Games with the rules, classification and program of events The goal for these 2024 Paralympic Games is quite high for the French delegation, which hopes to break all records, as for the Olympic Games. "The goal is mainly gold medals, because that's what counts most in the ranking of nations," recalls Marie-Amélie Le Fur. "[…] I was asked if this wasn't a discounted ambition compared to the Olympic top 5. But we had so much lost in performance, we've come a long way. We were 14th in Tokyo; aiming for the top 8 means doubling the number of gold medals, so a real ambition,'' said Marie-Amélie Le Fur, president of the French Paralympic Committee. As a reminder, in 2021, the French Paralympic delegation won 54 medals, including eleven Olympic titles. 
12:35 – France faces China
12:34 – France in the semi-final!
12:31 – Good start to the relay by Vide!
12:29 – 40-40 before the last relay
12:27 – Les Bleues aren't giving up!
12:22 – Two more relays in wheelchair fencing
12:16 – Hong Kong comes back in front
12:12 – Lucas Didier is smiling
12:08 – It's over for Leze
12:03 – Leze's last chance in para-judo
12:02 – An interruption to wheelchair fencing
11:58 – 20-20 after the fourth round!
11:54 – French para-fencing at the Grand Palais
11:50 – Latchoumanya in the final!
11:46 – Helios Latchoumanya aims for the final!
11:44 – Didier's final at 5 p.m.
11:39 – Lucas Didier takes an option!
11:38 – Grandry bows!
11:36 – Grandry's semi-final
11:33 – Two sets each in para-table tennis!
11:26 – Didier leads again
11:17 – Lucas Didier returns to one set all!
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LIVE. Paralympic Games 2024: silver and bronze for Peyroton-Dartet and Léauté in para-cycling, Boullé in bronze! Live
ByTeilor Stone
Sep 7, 2024
By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116