Paralympic Games: David Maillard from Lunell, fencing brigadier!

David Maillard a pris son rôle très à cœur pour ces JO 2024.

Le champion médaillé d’or aux JO d’Athènes en 2024 a donné les trois coups de bâton lançant les combats.

These are blows that he is not used to that David Maillard gave, this Tuesday, September 3, during the fencing events at the Paris Paralympic Games.

The gold medalist in the team épée at the Athens Olympics in 2004, in fact, officiated as a brigadier for the launch of the men's and women's individual sabre fights.

At the initiative of the creation of the Lunel club in 2016

A great anniversary for celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Olympic champion title, which probably motivated this adopted Lunellois to create the local fencing club in 2016.

“The Olympic Games Organizing Committee (Cojo) contacted me about two weeks ago to invite me to perform this official ceremony, explains the ever-successful athlete. Equipped with a brigadier, like in the theater, I gave three knocks not to raise the curtain but to start the events, continues David Maillard, who lives in the town of Lunel since 2008.

If, unfortunately, France did not win a medal in fencing that day, the memory of a fine vintage, in this year of the Olympic Games in France, remains forever in the mind of our brigadier.