Damien Letulle could write a very beautiful page in French sport. He could become the first archer to have participated in both the Olympic Games and therefore, barring any incident, the Paralympic Games. Only 16 athletes have achieved this performance, all sports combined.
Team world record holder
In 1996, Damien Letulle was one of the best French archers when he participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games. The Cherbourgeoise was notably the team world record holder with Sébastien Flute and Lionel Torres.
A year after this Olympiad, he unfortunately became quadriplegic after a brutal fall at INSEP where he was training. He spent three weeks in a coma, waking up, he said, “with a new body”. Today, athletes can move their arms but not their fingers.
Damien Letulle will shoot at Les Invalides during the Paris Paralympic Games © AFP – Loïc Venance
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He had put away the bows and arrows
Born on April 3, 1973, Damien Letulle is 51 years old today. He had stopped his career (he had failed to qualify for the Tokyo Paralympic Games) but he decided to take up his bow and arrows again when Paris obtained the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. “I didn’t want to take up disabled archery again,” he explains to France bleu Cotentin, “I was afraid of being frustrated at not having the level I had before. I had rather invested myself in my Cherbourg club, I had become president. I was also involved at the level of the federation, of the region. And then there was a little tilt, with the successful candidacy of Paris for the Games, and I said to myself: let’s go! ».****
Damien Letulle obtained the minimums during the world championships in the Czech Republic (he finished 8th) The para archery events will take place at Les Invalides, a symbolic place for Damien Letulle since that is where he performed his long rehabilitation after his accident.
2024-05-14 04:13:49
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