French cyclist Léauté wins bronze medal in men's 1000m
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00:00Yesterday of course he did manage to get that first gold here for France in Saint-Quartel
00:05to the west of Paris in the track cycling.
00:09Today he still gets onto the podium but with a bronze medal and that was no trouble to
00:14him.
00:15He was extremely happy to make it onto that.
00:17This behind his two Chinese competitors.
00:21China who managed once again to grab the silver and gold in that time trial and to be honest
00:28the atmosphere between the three of them after that was just really, they were all
00:32so happy for each other to manage to get that.
00:34The Chinese who were clearly just glad that they managed to just hit him just in front.
00:390.10 of a second is all that was missing for Lyoutei after his run.
00:44He of course wasn't seen as being the favourite in this race this time.
00:49It does take him quite a bit of time just to get started.
00:51This due to the lack of manoeuvre on the right side of his body which causes him to be a
00:55little bit slower than others in the start and he was at around two seconds slow at the
01:00beginning but managed to catch up very, very closely as you can tell from just before the
01:05end.
01:06So Lyoutei then getting a bronze for France, another medal in this third day of the Paralympics.
01:11Amanda Reid in the women's side on the 5,000 metres time trial got gold for Australia.
01:17And we've also got Doyon Futu coming on later on managing to beat the world record in the
01:22qualifiers for the 4,000 metre pursuit.
01:26That's still to come tonight but once again every single time world records being broken
01:30because there are so many categories of course in the Paralympics and allows for all of these
01:34celebrations.
01:35A lot of celebrations inside the village home.
01:37It might be quite cool today but inside there I can tell you it's very, very hot.
01:40And some of those moments really bringing the crowds together and a lot of French flags
01:44and a lot of flags from Brittany as well, supporters from the French cyclists coming
01:50here to celebrate his success.
01:53So still plenty to come at the village home and athletics to come as well tonight.
01:58Still plenty more as well in the swimming.