I have been able to catch a few minutes of the blind football at the stunning Eiffel Tower stadium, during both day and night shifts. The football players are quite amazing and play very hard, there are lots of physical clashes. They all wear an eye mask so all visual impairments at equalised and they use the fence on the border of the pitch quite a lot to situate themselves. The ball makes a sound so part of our role as volunteers is to keep everyone quiet so the players can hear the ball 🤫 !

The stadium at Champs de Mars has been turned into a venue for judo, with a huge mat in the middle of the venue. There are lots of categories in the judo and so there have been many events and medal ceremonies over the past few days.

We have had quite a few VIPs and yesterday a large Swedish delegation with Queen Silvia of Sweden. I got to drive her back to her car in my little EV vehicle.

The blind football had two very exciting semi- finals to set up for the Gold medal match. France beat Columbia 1-0 right near the end to the support of a large crowd, which included the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and Tony Estanguet, the President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee.

The second semi- final was between Argentina and six times Paralympic champions Brésil.

The match ended nil all and went straight to penalty shootouts! Both teams scored the first and then second and then both missed. Then it went to sudden death for another 3 rounds until the Brazilian missed and Argentina won the game.

Allez les Bleues for Gold!