What remains of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games? As France prepares to celebrate Paralympic Day this Saturday, Marie-Amélie Le Fur, President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee, drew up a report in the columns of the Monde.
« Many people wonder. But We cannot say that these Games were useless., that everything has fallen back. We see this in terms of awareness of the Games and Paralympic athletesWe have a more important place in the media landscape than before. ", underlines the triple Paralympic athletics champion, adding that " in the State's strategy, the reflex is now taken to always think about the singularity of the person with a disability ».
The president of the CPSF continues: “ We have not revolutionized the living conditions of people with disabilities. (…) There are still real difficulties. But a change is at workThe Paralympic Games have made it possible to to change society on the issue of gazeThey allowed us to see the situation of disability differently, through the prism of performance, of the field of possibilities, of the capacity to feel emotions. And that, a year later, is still present. »
The problem, however, is financial. We knew there would be a withdrawal of partners, but not that it would be this strong ", laments Marie-Amélie Le Fur, before mentioning the bleak outlook for public funding. What the State is asking of us, through this budget copy, is to cut an entire section of public sports policyWe're going to have to make some terrible choices. We can absorb a reasonable reduction – around 5% – because every ministry has to contribute to the budgetary effort. But not 18%, that's not absolutely not audible. » The 2026 budget must be adopted by the end of the year, but questions arise due to political uncertainty and the specter of a dissolution of the National Assembly.
