- 1 What changes from June 9?
- 2 What recovery for the licensees?
- 3 What about the competitions in Brittany?
- 4 How will the start of the school year go?
From this Wednesday, swimming pools and sports halls reopen but with certain constraints. Outdoors, practice with contact is now authorized for everyone with respect for certain protocols. Indoors, contactless practice is possible for everyone and only minors can, with strict protocols, have contact practice. For an individual practice, a group of ten people maximum is tolerated while for a supervised practice it can go up to 25. At the level of the competitions, the high-level is no longer restricted. For underage amateurs, 500 participants maximum simultaneously or on a contact event in public space and without limitation on outdoor or indoor equipment. While for the major amateurs, they will have to adopt the same gauge but without contact and 50% on an interior equipment. High-level athletes have an exemption for the curfew and the possibility of accessing the locker rooms. Spectators are therefore back up to 65% of maximum capacity within the limit of 5,000 people and health passes from 1,000 and seated only.
Difficult to resume competitions after several months without having been able to train. This is why in different sports, it is a gradual return to training that will be played from this Wednesday. For gymnastics, for example, some clubs still provide for an internal evaluation in 15 days, then a closure about three weeks later. In judo, while minors were already authorized to practice with contact subject to a heavy health protocol (disinfection of feet, hands, etc.), adults will be able to reconnect… outdoors. “The main obstacles that we could encounter are the municipalities which will not reopen the theaters,” notes Jérôme Liot, president of the League. On the other hand, there will be no competition, only grade passing exams and only on the technical aspect because we do not want there to be any breakage among our practitioners. For team sports, it is rather outdoor tournaments like the “Route du Volley 2021” which will allow you to get back to practice: 40 stages planned in BZH in July and August in beach volleyball or green volleyball (2×2, 3×3 etc) which clubs are free to register.
Every sport is possible. If the gym has closed the ban on official competitions such as judo, handball and table tennis, boxing does not plan a gala this summer either: “It would be unconscious. They haven’t boxed for a year. It will take 2 to 3 months for the boxers to be ready ”, specifies André Yvon, trainer of Sporting Briochin and secretary of the regional committee. Basketball players will no longer be at the party since the championships will only resume at the start of the school year. Only a 3×3 tour between land and sea will be organized by the League. On the other hand, the gouren hopes to be able to play a tournament by department while swimming and tennis have already resumed. Ten days ago in Saint-Malo for the swimmers: “Everything is starting again, 90% of the equipment will be able to function as it should”, explains CTR Laurent Guivarch. And since May 19 outdoors for tennis players: “We will be doing the various championships in Brittany in record time, using every weekend in June”, remarks Matthieu Le Saint, the director of the League.
If the competitions will resume at the start of the school year, the concern of the clubs is real for the return of licensees and “leisure” practitioners. “There is a real difficulty in bringing populations back to the basins, in particular for 10-17 year olds. We have no clear vision of the future, ”announces Laurent Guivarch, CTR swimming. It is the economic balance of the clubs, where the “leisure” part makes it possible to rebalance the accounts of the competitions sections which are necessarily in deficit, which will be played out at the start of the school year. Same observation on the side of boxing: “The region has lost 50% of members. People have gotten into the habit of doing individual sports outdoors. We hope they will come back, ”explains André Yvon, Sporting Briochin coach. As for table tennis, Sylvie Le Vigouroux, president of the Brittany Handball League, seems more confident: “The clubs have been very active in setting up these events and keeping in touch with their licensees”. While Jérôme Liot., President of the Brittany Judo League, hopes: “We want to leave the clubs alone so that they can focus on renewing licenses and preparing for the start of the school year in September”.
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