At the mic🎤, Antoine Hays, Manager Para Judo
What are the aims of the course?
We’ve already seen that with our Olympians, who had a great campaign, so we don’t want to achieve the same thing here because we don’t have, we only have 9 qualified athletes. So it’s going to be complicated to get 10 medals, but we’re going to leave with several medals and that’s the aim of our week in Soustons.
Now, we’ve really separated the blind from the visually impaired, so that’s enabled a number of old hands, like Cyril Jonard in particular, to come back and train. He’s blind and deaf and training with visually impaired people was quite complicated.
So the fact that we’ve really separated and divided these two visual categories is a plus.
WHY Soustons ?
We’ve done two courses here, before we were in Hendaye and now in Soustons.
We chose to do it here because it was important for us to be in this place, which is really fantastic and above all very useful for us. Because we have visually impaired people, we need to have everything on site and here we have the dojo, next door, we have catering, we have quality accommodation and we have the lake for water sports activities.
This morning, we went to do some physical training on the beach at Vieux-Boucau.
So everything’s going well, and now it’s off to Paris for the final preparation on 26 August and the start of the Games on 28 and 5 September for us.
At the mic 🎤, Hélios Latchoumanaya
My name is Hélios Latchoumanaya, I’m a double world champion, a double European champion and a bronze medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. I can’t wait to be there, I can’t wait for it to be my turn to set the Champ de Mars Arena alight and to hear all the people who are going to push me, who are going to carry me and I hope, who are going to, who are going to carry me to go and get this beautiful gold medal.
