La nuit ensoleillée 1981

Overview

For two weeks in 1980, two thousand disabled athletes gathered in Arnhem, Holland, for the sixth edition of the Olympic Games for the Physically Disabled, which had been held for twenty years and had last been organized in the Soviet Union. To begin with, one-legged Canadian Arnie Boldt cleared 1.96 meters in the high jump. Records were soon to fall like the cold rain of that uncertain summer, and for all those who dreamed of going faster, higher and stronger, there was no shortage of adversarie