2024 Paralympic Games: France takes on Australia in archery

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00:00James, good to talk to you. How's it going over there?

00:04Yes, well look, Nadia, just a day after Max Stutzman won his incredible gold medal here on

00:10the Place of the Invalides in the centre of Paris, Stutzman known as the Armless Archer and a huge

00:15day for him. Well, today, now it's time for the Mixed Team Compound events which are taking place

00:22as you mentioned right now. We've just seen Indonesia beat Iraq in a very, very tight

00:27round of 16 and right now, as we speak, France are currently facing off against Australia. France,

00:33who are hoping to be able to get through to the quarterfinals, will have the results for you

00:37in just a couple of minutes times as it happens right now. The Compound category that is actually

00:43one of the differences compared to the Olympics, it's not actually part of the Olympics normally,

00:48it's a slightly modern version of archery which is also included in the Paralympics. That's pretty

00:53much one of the only differences that comes with this event compared to the Olympics just a couple

00:59of weeks ago. That happening just now, China got a gold medal once again, this time in the W1

01:06category just earlier on this morning, but also on this very area, just on this very place just

01:11around here, around the bridge you can see behind us, the Pont Alexandre. Just a few hours ago,

01:17the triathlon wrapped up. The triathlon, which of course was delayed by two days, but finally it

01:23was able to go ahead this morning. We had two gold medals for the French, one of those

01:28coming for Alexis Ocancan. I was widely expected that he'd be able to defend his title from Tokyo

01:34and he did so with brilliant style. He managed to finish with three minutes ahead in the race.

01:42This, with all the cheers from everybody who was able to come and cheer him on, because of course,

01:46unlike many of the other events, this is a free one. All you have to do is stand by the side of

01:50the road and go on and cheer your favorite athletes. They've had plenty of blues going

01:55on throughout the rest of the morning. Right now, the podiums are still happening. The podiums,

01:59because there are 11 categories in the triathlon. This, of course, because depending on the

02:06different disabilities so that everybody is regrouped in different ones, but 11 categories,

02:09that's a lot of singing and a lot of anthems still coming our way. The triathlon, which differs in a

02:14few ways, but not that many. In fact, it's actually taking place, it took place in the exact same

02:19spots as the previous triathlon did during the Olympics with the swimming in the River Seine.

02:25Of course, the Bordes d'Avalise and the running taking place just around here as well. Slight

02:29differences, of course, for some, they have guides, others are using handbikes. There are also

02:33tandem bikes that are being used, but there's also, of course, athletes have to change their

02:37prosthetic limbs from one event to another, but they managed to do so. Obviously, we can see

02:43how much training there is that goes into managing to do that very quickly. Then off they go

02:47back into the running or the next event from them. All of that happening in here in the center

02:52of Paris is what Paris has wanted to do, showcase the best landmarks. Today is a perfect example of

02:57how everything is happening just within very small areas. Behind us, there's the bridge that I

03:03mentioned, but just next to us, there's the Eiffel Tower, there's the Hôtel de l'Avalise, there's the

03:07Grand Palais next to us. It's pretty incredible when you sit in those stands watching the archery,

03:11you've got bio-postcards to send back home. That's what you'll see on it and that's where

03:16the Olympics are taking place, the Paralympics are now taking place, and it's pretty amazing

03:20to see. We'll be coming back to these sites over the coming days because it's not finished

03:23for the archery just yet. All right, sounds like there's lots for you to enjoy there.

03:28Thanks very much, James Sassina for us there near Onvalide.

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