Paris 2024 Paralympics | Para cycling – Alexandre Léauté’s big ambitions: “I want to win two gold medals or even three” :- Alexandre Léauté, a 23-year-old Para biker, is confident as he heads into the most important event of his young career. The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will be one of the biggest events in French history.
23-year-old Alexandre Léauté is a young man with big plans. Since the beginning of his career, the Breton Para biker has won 19 world titles. He is confident going into the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
“I know what I need to do to make my mark on my sport, and I plan to bring back as many medals as I can.” “If I succeed, it will be great, and if I don’t, it won’t keep me up at night,” he told the press on Thursday night during an online interview from his hotel room in Lille, where he is training for the last time.
Four times a winner at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, the Frenchman hopes to do better on the track at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome and on the roads of Clichy-sous-Bois. He was born with a stroke and has 95% of the power in his right leg.
“I’m not going to hide the fact that I want to win two or even three gold medals,” says Alexandre Léauté, who will be participating in the pursuit, the kilometre, and the team sprint on the track. He will then go on to compete in the time trial and the road race.
That will be my main goal in both the pursuit and the road time trial. I am the current Paralympic winner and world record holder in the pursuit. I just want to have fun, especially in the team dash.
There was no opening event for Alexandre Léauté.
Even though Alexandre Léauté really wants to enjoy the competition, he will not be at the opening event at Place de la Concorde on Wednesday, August 28th, in the evening.
The French Para cycling team as a whole decided to do this just a few hours before the race to protect the athletes’ bodies and thoughts.
“No one sees it, but the group has really gotten going,” the French Para rider said. An awful lot of us are good enough to win titles. Even though I shouldn’t, I’ll say it anyway: our goal is to get 25 medals in total! That’s a lot, so every day we’ll have chances, and we’ll help each other out.
“I’d like people to remember me as Alexandre Léauté and not as the Léon Marchand of the Paralympics”
There will be a lot of people there if the French team, and Alexandre Léauté in particular, do well. “I hope they come to both the Olympics and the Paralympics.”
It’s really exciting, and we don’t know it yet, so he tells us that we’ll need to be mentally ready when we get there. It will be great, and my family will be there, which doesn’t happen very often!”
“I’m glad they’re here.” “It might make me stronger,” hopes the head of world Para cycle. What would happen if he got lucky and became the Léon Marchand of the Paralympics?
“That’s not really fair,” he says. “I’d rather people remember me as Alexandre Léauté than as the Léon Marchand of the Paralympics.” I like that guy, but Léon Marchand did great things and Alexandre Léauté will do great things.