Gymnastics (Calais International Tournament): Two birds with one stone
This is a great first and therefore also a leap into the unknown. For the eight gymnasts who are flying off to France this evening, the international tournament in Calais will be a unique opportunity to take part in an international competition. “Travel is expensive and so we can only do two per year.exposes Eve Wtodkiewiez, the trainer of GR La Saline. They are of course reserved for the individual and Together French championships; but this year, we had the possibility of combining a trip to France with a tournament which is settled on the same dates.
Usually confined to the national events, the young residents of the GR La Saline will discover in the northern city the requirement of a tournament of this scale against gymnasts from Luxembourg, Egypt or Lithuania. Competitors that the Réunionnaises have never met before on the mats and whose real level also remains totally unknown to them. “We don’t really know where to standconcedes Eve Wtodkiewiez. So we don’t have a result objective, the main thing is to accumulate experience. The 10-11 year olds do a hands-free passage and another with an apparatus while the others do two sequences with an apparatus“.
Examples to follow
Whatever the level of their opponents, the péi gymnasts will be above all focused on their own performance, which they will tirelessly repeat on the eve of their departure and which they will also repeat on the eve of the Friday competition. “The place doesn’t really matterenrolled in the West Technician. If they do their move perfectly but it doesn’t get them to the podium, that doesn’t mean they’ve gone through with their performance.”. A reasoning that the five gymnasts, who will take the weekend following the direction of Nîmes to compete in the French championships (National A and B), will have to keep in mind when it comes time to enter the track.
Last year, the Réunion delegation scored a National C title with Lilou Jourdan, while the performances of Farah Melchior and Mayline Jourdan opened the doors to the Espoirs de Montpellier section at the start of the season. “We’ll see what this year has in store for us.emphasizes the Salinoise coach. We have two newcomers arriving in 10 years National A and B, it will be a first experience for them. The others will largely change category and the results can be better or worse.“.
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> Rhythmic Gymnastics Reunion Delegation
Inayah Turpin (National A, 10 years old), Abby Eustache (National B, 10 years old), Solène Lucas (National A, 11 years old), Luna Rivière Cazanove (National B, 11 years old), Mila Le Toullec (National A, 12- 13 years old), Gabrielle Smith (National A, 14-15 years old), Naomie Sorlier (National B, 14-15 years old).