Women in sport through Olympism in a college in Dieppe

At the Claude Delvincourt college in Dieppe, there was first the hand in the hat and then the fortnight of Olympic and Paralympic sport.

Place now at theWomen’s Olympism.

This is the third project of Frédérique Pelletier, physical education and sports teacher at Collège Claude-Delvincourt which materializes.

Helped by Céline Pineau, Angélique Gréboval and Bérénice Normand, she devoted many hours to succeed in turning an idea into a unique activity in the Dieppe establishment.

“Alice Milliat inspired me”

She looks back on the genesis of her project.

It was Alice Milliat’s story that inspired me. A rower and very involved in rowing, she asked the International Olympic Committee in 1919 to include women’s athletics events in the following Olympic Games. This was refused to him and it even caused a general outcry in the sporting world. Alice Milliat then fought for twenty years and this led to considerable progress for the place of women in sport. It is in the same spirit that I wanted to create Women’s Olympism within Delvincourt College.

This time, six classes of the establishmentall levels being represented, will participate in this event next week.

Also, CM2 students from the Jules-Ferry school in Dieppe and the primary school in Arques-la-Bataille are also part of it.

They hadn’t been able to come to college during the last operation because of health constraints, but they are happy to be present next week.

Work was done upstream to become familiar with the subject.

In addition, the young Arquais created a large pyramid illustrating in particular the percentage of women over the Olympic Games.

Concerning the college students of Delvincourt, they will therefore discover sports through workshops.

This action is planned for the whole of next week (except Wednesday) with the initiation to two sports in the morning and two others in the afternoon with each time, information given for know the place of women in these disciplines.

Among the sports presented, we have voluntarily chosen strongly gendered sports such as boxing, rugby, wrestling… Sports which, when we talk about them, we immediately think of being practiced by men, but much less often by women.

Famous sportsmen

Disability in sport will still be in the spotlight with in particular wheelchair rugby, seated volleyball in the middle of other disciplines such as fencing, archery or judo to name but a few.

Also, as in her previous actions, Frédérique Pelletier multiplied the steps, made numerous phone calls and sent e-mails to bring high-value stakeholders to Dieppe.

Most often sportswomen (there are only women to respond to the will of the project) who have distinguished themselves on the international scene.

Not all of them have confirmed their arrival yet, but we can already name several.

There will be Pearl Movemultiple-time French Para-rowing champion and double medalist at the Paralympic Games.

Alexandra Saint-Pierre world champion in disabled table tennis.

Clemence Delavoipierreworld champion in disabled fencing.

Estelle Marsa-Galant, member of the French seated volleyball team or Brigitte Duboc, para archery world champion.

Local clubs also played the game and will participate in various ways.

We will find in particular the Dieppe savate boxing française, the Circle of struggle of Dieppe, the CN Dieppe rowing, the table tennis section of the Cep Saint-Nicolas, the Dojo of Saint-Martin-en-Campagne or even the FC Dieppe and the Duke rugby.

A packed program with, as always with what relates to Olympism, an opening ceremony on Monday and a closing ceremony on Friday.

Two highlights of the action for which they also worked hard to provide a great show.

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