A look back at CREPS Paralympic Day

📅 Saturday September 30n a CREPS decked out in the colors of the French teams and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paralympic Day was held for the second year running.

Placed under the sign of co-education, this day was aimed at all publics curious to discover, learn about parasports and eager to meet parasporters in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 🏀🤺🧗

Participants were able to discover and practice a range of sports, including wheelchair fencing, para-table tennis, adapted table tennis, cecifoot, para-tir, wheelchair basketball, para-judo, para-rowing, para-badminton, seated volleyball, climbing, adapted basketball, athletics, para-cycling and more. ⚽🏃‍♀️🏐

🚣‍♀️ The day’s program included exceptional meetings with Sami El Guedarri, who spoke on disabilities and sports classifications, as well as Perle Bouge, Olympic medallist in para-aviron, Manon Genest, world champion in paratriathlon, and Karima Medjeded, Olympic champion in para-judo.

🏀 The day ended with a wheelchair basketball match between teams from the Pôle France de Basket Fauteuil at CREPS Bordeaux and the Blanquefort team (National 1) 👨‍🦼 The Pôle players lost 80-53 in front of a hundred or so spectators who came to cheer them on.

👉Many thanks to the many volunteers and to Ambition 2.24 who came to help organize the day.

👉 Many thanks to all participants.

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