How Paris 2024 can and must change the standard for disability and inclusion in France!
How Paris 2024 can and must change the standard for disability and inclusion in France!
Paralympic games Accessibility Inclusion Life experience
Florence Alix-Gravellier
Florence Alix-Gravellier is a Paralympic medalist, author and speaker. She shares her story to change the place, visibility and storytelling of differences.
“In this country, we will never look at disability in the same way again”
On 8 September 2024, will Tony Estanguet echo these words by Sebastian Coe on the closing night of the London 2012 Paralympic Games? London 2012 killed the game regarding societal legacy and how we look at people with a disability in the UK. A year ahead of their own Games, these standards seem far beyond reach for France.
Accessibility, employment, education, visibility, freedom and citizenship: the challenges are monumental, but the Paris 2024 Games, a formidable energy catalyst, represent a unique opportunity to change dimensions. And each and every one of us has a role to play in this change!
Sharing her 45-year journey in life through the eyes of a girl, then a woman with a disability, in the school and university system, in hospitals, in top-level sport, business, management, airports, stations, in France and abroad, Florence Alix-Gravellier takes a look at the challenges facing France and the French people as they prepare to host the Games, and suggests that we all rediscover our power to transform society through sport.
"The power to change is in our hands. Let's not let it slip away" says Florence.
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