Paralympic Games: Eröffnungsfeier with Hug and Kratter as Schweizer Fahnenträger

Marcel Hug and Elena Kratter played a tragedy during the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Paris in the Schweizer Fahne.

It is a long battle in the camp of the Swiss delegation at the Paralympic Games in Paris. But on Tuesday morning, chef de mission Peter Läuppi is in Maison Suisse on the gelände der Schweizer Botschaft unweit der Seine and the imposing Hôtel des Invalides. Marcel Hug and Elena Kratter are working in the 27-year-old Swiss team, the Swiss drive will experience the consequences of the tragedy.

Cuddle began in Paris during the Paralympic Games, but for the 38-year-old it is a premiere as a Fahnenträger. “It is a big honor for me, the Swiss team is doing sports together with Elena,” says the Thurgauer Rollstuhl-Leichtathlete, then Friday in the Vorlauf over 5000 m long distances in the Stade de France.

“I think it’s as hard as the opening event is what you can do,” says Hug. “It’s the start of everything, was in the course of the passions.” For Hug, three distances on the track in Paris as well as the marathon in the program. During the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the four-time gold medalist from Tokyo 2021 won the Swiss flag at the closing event.

For Elena Kratter it is a privilege that the Swiss Cross is in the Mittwochabend during the Parade. This leads the athletes and athletes from the Champs-Elysées to the Place de la Concorde. “I thank you, our country is standing for all athletes and athletes with a stole to dare to represent”, said the 28-year-old. Before continuing with bronze in the bronze for a few years. Also in Paris Kratter starts in the Weitsprung and in the Sprint on 100 m. For the Schwyzerin is gilded on September 5 serious.

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