courses for children alongside top athletes
Who hasn’t dreamed of practicing their favorite sport with their idol? This is what the Toulouse University Club (TUC) by organizing summer courses in rowing, fencing, field hockey and rugby. Intended for children aged 6 to 16 depending on the discipline, each of these stadiums will have a high-level athlete as its ambassador: Maxime Valet, bronze medalist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games in para fencing, Victor Marcelot, French rowing hopeful , Marie Simon, member of the French field hockey team and Maxime Medardwell-known player from Stade Toulouse, who is also about to retire from sport.
Daily interventions
For each discipline, three to four weeks of stages will be offered during the coming summer at the Alain-Coulon stadium in Toulouse. In the morning, the children will practice the chosen sport, whether they are beginners or confirmed; in the afternoon they will be able to discover lesser-known disciplines: ultimate, archery, combat cane, etc.
These stages will also be an opportunity for participants to rub shoulders with their favorite athletes, whom they will see in one way or another according to Benoît Maury, director general of the TUC contacted by L’Opinion Indépendante.
The children will see them either in video, because they are very busy people, or face-to-face depending on their availability. Whatever happens, they will see them daily at the start of the day for the launch and the presentation of the program of the day”, he specifies.
Promote and support athletes from Occitanie
For the club, these events are also an opportunity to promote athletes from Occitania. The four ambassadors were also selected through the platform Isupportanathlete.frwhose objective is to support top athletes.
Paris is hosting the Olympic Games in 2024, these athletes must be supported towards performance. Sport and sports associations must play their part,” said Benoît Maury.
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Beyond promotion, the Toulouse University Club also hopes to replace sports practice at the center of summer vacation 2022 participating children.
During the summer, parents can’t do anything other than put their children in leisure centres, why wouldn’t it be a sports-oriented leisure centre?”, Asks the general manager.
True to the association’s slogan – “physical activity for everyone, every day” – the TUC is clearly positioned on the many public health issues inherent in the practice of sport. Created in 1905, the club is made up of 23 sports sections accessible from the age of 12 months. In total, it has between 5,000 and 6,000 members.
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