“Come on Lucas, go for it,” encourages a classmate. At ease, the boy slaloms between the blocks, turns around before crossing the finish line, arms in the air. “You won,” we congratulate him. However, this is the first time that the student used a wheelchair. Nothing to disconcert him. “It’s okay, it’s not that hard,” he says before giving up his place. “At that age, there are no barriers, no mockery or blockages,” assures Caroline Marx, director of the National Union of School Sports (UNSS) of secondary education in Essonne, which bears the project with the First Degree Education Sports Union (Usep).
Like Lucas, nearly 2,000 young people have slipped, for a day, into the shoes of a disabled person. As part of the Olympic and Paralympic week, the departmental council organized the Essonne Paralympiads over three days around inclusion through sport.
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