Yeah. and you were impossible to catch. this is a training session of the capsaaa wheelchair rugby team. my friend ryadh sallem founded the club. it s partly made up of former paralympians like himself and a couple of members of france s 2024 squad. can we go and meet the team? this is what the games represents to me. how are you? lovely to see you. i m talking about the coming together, the being united, the camaraderie. sorry, my english is bad. hey, that s all right. my french is bad. 0h. it s a draw. nice, easy!
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Rugby before my injury. it s been a while since i captained team gb at london 2012, and i m here to meet another former athlete. hey! hello, steve! how are you? are you well? ludivine won 12 medals for swimming. it s just my second moment in english since my life. no! yes, it is, so. well, you re doing very well. she s now the head of paralympic integration at this year s games. it s a very amazing opportunity. the name of myjob is how i can integrate the olympic and paralympic competition. like two parts of the same competition. yes. and is there a sense of transformation in paris? do you think there s been a change in the understanding of disability? i m sure. i m certain of that. we progress on the children understanding of the disability and the para sport.
Bonjour. bonjour, steve. alex. raf. ca va? nice to meet you. 0h. thank you. rafael and his dad, alex, have a special relationship with the river. not for olympic games, but for usually every day. so how long have you been cleaning the river? since four years ago now. four years. he was.. he was nine when we started. they ve become famous for fishing rubbish out of the river and posting about it on instagram under the tag raf sur seine. so. and this is the magnet? yeah, this magnet is so strong, but you can try here. oh, wow! you re pulling the bridge over!
Sitting volleyball before. i mean, i never played wheelchair rugby before my injury. it s been a while since i captained team gb at london 2012, and i m here to meet another former athlete. hey! hello, steve! how are you? are you well? ludivine won 12 medals for swimming. it s just my second moment in english since my life. no! yes, it is, so. well, you re doing very well. she s now the head of paralympic integration at this year s games. it s a very amazing opportunity. the name of myjob is how i can integrate the olympic and paralympic competition. like two parts of the same competition. yes. and is there a sense of transformation in paris? do you think there s been a change in the understanding of disability? i m sure. i m certain of that.
You can see it s really quite busy. there s so much hustle and bustle. ..to the seine. beautiful. ..and up into the sky. it s 2024 and this is paris. paris is already one of the world s most visited cities. but this year, they re expecting around 15 million people during the competition. here at porte de la chapelle arena, it s the start of olympic and paralympic week. merci, monsieur. more than 4,000 children have gathered to try their hand at a range of activities, including para sports. i bet none of these kids have played
That was the first time we played against each other. yeah. and you were impossible to catch. this is a training session of the capsaaa wheelchair rugby team. my friend ryadh sallem founded the club. it s partly made up of former paralympians like himself and a couple of members of france s 2024 squad. can we go and meet the team? this is what the games represents to me. how are you? lovely to see you. i m talking about the coming together, the being united, the camaraderie. sorry, my english is bad. hey, that s all right. my french is bad. 0h. it s a draw.
Ha ha! salut. bonjour. bonjour, steve. alex. raf. ca va? nice to meet you. 0h. thank you. rafael and his dad, alex, have a special relationship with the river. not for olympic games, but for usually every day. so how long have you been cleaning the river? since four years ago now. four years. he was.. he was nine when we started. they ve become famous for fishing rubbish out of the river and posting about it on instagram under the tag raf sur seine. so. and this is the magnet? yeah, this magnet is so strong, but you can try here. oh, wow! you re pulling the bridge over!
It s going to be here on the river and the athletes parade, believe it or not, is going to be a huge flotilla of boats. at least, that s the plan. it could be moved because of security fears, but the river itself is set to become one of the games biggest legacies. for the first time in 100 years, the seine could open up to public swimming after the city spent around 1.5 billion euros upgrading its sewage system. athletes in the triathlon are supposed to take a dip this summer. so, if the organisers hit all their targets, you ll be able to have a swim in the seine as early as 2025. swimming in the river isn t for me, i don t think. i don t like being cold. i m a fair weather kind of guy. if it s 38 degrees, i might think about it. but how do everyday parisians feel about it?
Five in the morning, you know, big lights and everything. and they kicked everybody out. they were here saying to the media that this is a humanitarian operation. of course, everyone is going to be housed for the long term. and they were saying that this was done for the security of the people. so, in your mind, they re making excuses and reasons that weren t valid? yeah, obviously, it s not. it s really 100 metres, right next to the olympic village. for them, it s not a pretty picture, you know? so, yeah, for me, it s related to the games. paul s group have alleged that what happened here is part of a wider effort to clear the streets ahead of the games. french officials have denied any link, and the international olympic committee have stressed they re not responsible for paris homeless policy. i ll tell you a truth, ok? i ve only ever seen that shiny side of the games you talk about. i ve stayed in an olympic village, with all of the privileges that come