This Friday, June 21, the city’s Clos Bon Aure will be transformed into a real Paralympic playground. Indeed, the City of Pont-Saint-Esprit organizes, in partnership with the Comité du Gard
Handisport and Terre de Jeux 2024, a Paralympic day, which will bring together 245 children from CM1 and CM2, in order to give them an unparalleled human experience, by practicing sports
Paralympics.
The objectives of this day are clear: to better understand disability and to change the way we look at difference, to fight against all forms of discrimination.
At the dawn of the Olympic Games, the City recently published in an official press release its wish to highlight the Paralympic Games (scheduled for September 2024) and to allow Spiripontans to fully benefit from these sporting events and it is taking this opportunity to raise awareness among children in local schools about Paralympic sports. “Disability in no way prevents sporting achievement, quite the contrary.”
The Gard d’handisport Committee and Terre de jeux 2024 are partners of the City of Pont-Saint-Esprit
for the organization of this day.
Thus, during this day, the children will be able to:
- Be accompanied by the sports class of Denis Mateu – PE teacher at Notre Dame college
- Play sports with a disability:
o Visual disability: judo, blind football, long run (400m) with a guide, goalball.
o Motor disability: sprint with one arm in the shirt to simulate a limb
superior in less, hand and armchair basketball. - Chat with athletes high level, notably Benjamin Téoule, five times champion
of France in disabled judo, twice European team champion and once champion of
team world.
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