The club, which made its debut at the Champ…
The club, which made its debut at Champ-Bourda in Jurançon in 1902 with the Paloise rugby section and the athletics section, changed its infrastructure with the creation of the Stade de la Croix-du-Prince in 1910, the Stadium de la station which hosted the arrival of Basque pelota in the 1920s and the Cami-Salié pelota complex in the 2000s. But in 2019 and 2021, the demolition of the stand at the Croix-du-Prince stadium and the pediment of the Stadium at the station, marked a turning point for the association.
“Our club has been scattered all over the city. Now we have judo and kendo in rue de Laussat, fencing is at Hédas, boxing with the military. Our goal and our project is to try to regroup ”, explains the president of the Paloise omnisports Section Christian Loustaudine. “We lack a modern infrastructure, a place to live to live up to our ambitions. »
Boxing has a long tradition in the Section Paloise dating back to the 1930s.
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Amateur sports heavyweight
The club has no place to live and yet it does not lack dynamism. It is a heavyweight in amateur sport with some 2,500 members, a board of 35 people, and champions who have made its colors shine throughout its history. Hundreds of French and European champion titles, a few world titles and three participations in the Olympic Games complete this list. The Basque pelota is part of this wake since it will send four players to the world championships which will be held in Biarritz in October 2022.
Kendo is also active with a champion: Sabine Loustalé-Péré.
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Despite the period of turbulence caused by the health crisis, the club has not lost its course, a sign of its solidity. Thus, the karate section, which had lost 30% of its members during this period, found a stable figure with 147 members, adults and children combined. It also has many projects, such as the development of body karate, explains its president Yvan Comet and claims talented sportswomen with seven black belts. The licensees are there.
The pelota complex?
Judo and its catches, always impressive.
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Under a blazing sun, the volunteers are also at the rendezvous this Saturday, harnessed to the bar or in action in the ring to offer demonstrations. The Section Paloise omnisports is above all an affair of the heart. “Yes, it’s kind of a family,” smiles Christine Florès from the boxing section. The proof, she works with her husband Christian, the president, and her son Dorian.
All that’s left is for this large family to find a common home. After several unsuccessful projects, a track is being studied, explains the president Christian Loustaudine: it would be a question of bringing together the different disciplines in an enlarged pelota complex. And thus write a new page in the history of the Section.
The feminine touch.
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