Nomis (I) expressed the will to support Cuban judokas with training bases in French cities. Photo taken from Prensa Latina
Havana, Jan 20 (RHC) The president of the French Judo Federation, Paris 2024″>Stéphane Nomis, and the Cuban ambassador in Paris, Otto Vaillant laid the foundations this Thursday for the signing of a bilateral collaboration agreement in the high performance of that sport. .
Promoted by the Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association, the meeting held at the Federation’s headquarters in Paris addressed lines of work such as the preparation of athletes for important competitions, the exchange of coaches’ knowledge and the development of a discipline with a lot of tradition and results in both nations.
Nomis expressed the will to support the judokas of the island with training bases in French cities, with cycles of up to one month, which would include coverage of lodging, food and transportation expenses within the country.
He advanced the possibility of sending to the largest island of the Antilles donations of fundamental resources for the practice of the martial art created by Jigoro Kano, based on coordination with the Cuban counterpart on the main needs.
“I am very happy to help, I have very good memories of Cuba and I think we are going to have a nice collaboration,” he stressed at the meeting, in which the president of CubaCoop, Victor Fernández, and its vice president Manuel Pascual also participated.
For his part, Ambassador Vaillant thanked Nomis and the French Judo Federation for promoting sports cooperation under the principle of solidarity. (Fountain: PL)
