There was a certain excitement this Thursday morning in the gymnasium of the Jean Jaurès college in Castanet-Tolosan. Spread across four workshops, nearly 140 students from 6e and 4th discovered several para-sport disciplines. On the menu: boccia, a game similar to pétanque and made popular by Aurélie Aubert during the last Paris Olympics, blind football and parabadminton. The children also took part in a quiz on parasport. On the Cécifoot stand, the students are blindfolded and must guide the ball with their feet along a path between cones before shooting at goal. All while being guided by oral or audio instructions given by a friend located nearby. “The objective is to make them aware of loss of sight while trusting their classmates,” explains Norbert Endtz, coordination manager at CDOS 31. On the neighboring field, teenagers try parabad under the eyes of Mélodie Cabourg, coach at the Blagnac Badminton Club. “The mission is to make them discover that it is not easy to play badminton when you have a disability,” explains the young woman.
