During the first six months of 2024, The world follows French sportsmen and women who will participate in the Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11) or Paralympic Games (from August 28 to September 8) in Paris. Through reports, portraits and interviews, we tell you how they prepare for this meeting of a lifetime.
As part of this series called “Olympic Design”, you have the opportunity to interact directly with them during a chat organized on Lemonde.fr.
Today we welcome Titouan Castryck. The 19-year-old Frenchman, youngest member of the French canoe-kayak team, is preparing to experience his first Olympic Games. In October 2023, it was on the Olympic basin, in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), that the Breton won his Olympic selection by flying over the slalom World Cup. His navigation “on the razor’s edge” inspires his adversaries and the new generation.
To go deeper
- Our “Olympic Purpose” series
“Olympic design”, a sensitive and different look at the preparation of the Games
Titouan Castryck, the crack who “revolutionizes” kayaking
Cyrille Chahboune, former commando amputee of both legs, rebuilt himself through sport
The final challenge for sprinter Nantenin Keïta, in search of one last Paralympic podium
Volleyball player Lucille Gicquel, Olympic pioneer in a family of champions
Rudy Gobert, basketball player: “Becoming an Olympic champion in Paris is the opportunity of a lifetime”
On the Games basin, Titouan Castryck, kayak hopeful, tames the cold and the swirls
At the Paris Paralympic Games, Cyrille Chahboune and the French volleyball players will be seated for the first time
Inauguration and crowd bath for Clarisse Agbégnénou before the home stretch of her Olympic preparation
The last preparation of Nantenin Keïta, between doubts and good humor
Clarisse Agbégnénou, judo champion: “The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will for sure be my last”
Nantenin Keïta, para athlete, gold medalist in Rio: “My biggest dream would be to come out of the Paris Games without regrets, and to obtain a medal in full stadiums”
Lucille Gicquel, volleyball player for the French team: “A successful Games? Show a beautiful image of our team, so that people want to follow us for years to come! »
Rudy Gobert: “Getting beaten a year before the Olympics showed us what we need to improve, to come back even stronger” in Paris
- Our previous chats on the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Ticketing, security, people with disabilities… Chat with Marie-Amélie Le Fur, Paralympic champion and president of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee
“The thirty days of competition must be successful, but the thirty years of heritage, that’s what motivates us,” according to Stéphane Troussel, president of the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
“Paris and Ile-de-France have a huge deficit in terms of equipment and places” to practice sport, according to Anne Hidalgo
“We don’t want to imagine the Olympic and Paralympic Games without the Ukrainians,” assures Amélie Oudéa-Castéra
