Adaptive Sports: The Unseen Elite Athletes

On January 1, somewhere in France and around the world, athletes are already strapping on their skis. The snow is here, and training is back in full swing. Just like every day. Just like every season.

These athletes are top-level competitors. They train rigorously, make progress, sometimes fall, but always get back up. Their daily lives are marked by discipline, fatigue, and determination. Like all those who strive for sporting excellence.

And yet, in 2030, their place on the world’s biggest sporting stage is still not guaranteed.

These athletes are Adapted Sports competitors.

Adaptive Sports and the Paralympic Games: incomplete recognition

Adaptive Sports brings together athletes with mental or psychological disabilities or autism spectrum disorders. They participate in international competitions and are classified, supervised, and trained according to high standards.

The rules exist.

Competitions exist.

The level of performance is recognized.

Yet some of these athletes remain excluded from the Winter Paralympic Games.

2025: Mobilization for inclusive 2030 Games

In 2025, thousands of citizens, athletes, elected officials, and stakeholders in the sports world refused to accept this injustice.

They signed the Inclusive 2030 Games forum, affirming that inclusion cannot stop at mere words.

This mobilization marks a turning point in the recognition of Adapted Sport at the highest level.

2026, a decisive year for the 2030 Winter Paralympic Games

The year 2026 marks the beginning of a decisive period.

The decisions that will be made will shape the legacy of the 2030 Winter Paralympic Games in the French Alps.

This is a historic opportunity to recognize these athletes not for their disabilities, but for their talent, commitment, and performance.

They are ready.

Only one thing is missing: the decision to include them.

Making sport a driver of inclusion and change

The Inclusive Games 2030 forum is driven by a strong conviction: sport is a lever for social transformation.

Including Adaptive Sports athletes in the 2030 Winter Paralympics is not creating an exception.

It is recognizing an existing sporting reality.

👉 Sign the forum and be part of a historic step forward for truly inclusive Games.