In Mazières-en-Gâtine, the sports associations are back on track. Following successive cold waves, culminating in this freezing end-of-year holiday season, temperatures are very cool inside the gymnasium, as revealed by our colleagues at Western Mail. The cause: a boiler problem. “It must be 4°C at the moment when we train, I ask the players to bring warm clothing and scarves”plague this Saturday January 3, 2026, Martin Moreau, president of the Sud Gâtine Tennis club in Mazières-en-Gâtine.
And he’s not the only one complaining. “All the clubs are complaining, the parents are complaining, we still practice in kimonosadds Alain Thomazeau, president of the Mazières-en-Gâtine judo club and the departmental judo committee. I don’t like young people getting on the tatami wearing socks but we have to let them. And falls, when it’s cold, you risk getting hurt even more. »
