The inhibitions about his prosthesis were put to rest when Jean-Baptiste Alaize of France helped his classmates win a relay race. That very night, he realised what he had accomplished and what lay ...

The Paralympics is full of stories of disabled athletes overcoming the odds to achieve sporting greatness but few bear the trauma of Jean-Baptiste Alaize. The 29-year-old French sprinter and ...

The Paralympics is full of stories of disabled athletes overcoming the odds to achieve sporting greatness but few bear the trauma of Jean-Baptiste Alaize. The 29-year-old French sprinter and ...

Jean-Baptiste Alaize (born 10 May 1991) is a French athlete with an amputated tibia, who specialises in sprint and long jump. He represented France at the 2016 Paralympic Games. Alaize was born in ...

Jean-Baptiste Alaize is known as the 'Lion' not for his considerable para athletics achievements but for surviving horrific wounds sustained in Burundi at the outset of the brutal civil war over two ...

(ATR) Paralympian Jean-Baptiste Alaize tells Around the Rings he is returning to his home country of Burundi to help "heal the wounds of war" with a sporting endeavor. Alaize is a Paralympian from ...

LONDON - Jean-Baptiste Alaize is known as the 'Lion', not for his considerable paraathletics achievements but for surviving horrific wounds sustained in Burundi's civil war over two decades ago, he ...

The Paralympics is full of stories of disabled athletes overcoming the odds to achieve sporting greatness but few bear the trauma of Jean-Baptiste Alaize. French athlete Jean Baptiste Alaize, who ...

The 26-year-old won bronze for France in the long jump at last month's world para athletics championships in London Stadium. Long jump para-athlete Jean-Baptiste Alaize was just three when he and his ...