From cancer to the dream of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the rebirth of Mathieu Thomas

He told it so many times that even, twenty-two years later, this moment is still vivid in his memory. Mathieu Thomas was 17 years old and, on leaving his French baccalaureate, he returned from a colony in the United States. “Over there, my friends found that my right leg was thinner than the left, I took extensive exams and we realized that I no longer had a patellar reflex and the verdict was in. ” Terrible.