Tuesday January 25, a delegation went to the Saint-Exupéry school to launch the activities around Paris 2024
With a track record that speaks for itself, Perle Bouge, Paralympic athlete with two medals in London and Rio, is donning her Terre de jeux 2024 ambassador outfit this week to meet students from several schools in the city of Dax, with, in his suitcases, the official flags of the next Olympics.
“The city was chosen from among the 250 applications, to welcome Perle Bouge today, and with it the values of sport”, explains Amine Benalia-Brouche, assistant for sports and associations. For the moment, with fencing at the André-Darrigade stadium, and rugby 7 at Colette-Besson, we already have the assurance of receiving two delegations on our territory. Dax is also a candidate city to host the passage of the Olympic flame and this kind of action is also there to defend this candidacy, ”explains the elected official.
“A teaching tool”
As for the Paralympic sports, which France will host for the first time in 2024, they are also an opportunity to raise awareness among young people: “We want to use sport as an educational tool, to introduce Olympic and Paralympic disciplines, as is the case today with disabled basketball, changing the way people look at disability and awakening young people to voluntary and civic engagement,” adds the deputy.
On Tuesday, a mosaic fresco, created by the students of the Saint-Exupéry school, on the theme of the Paris 2024 games, was unveiled, before the launch of archery, disc golf, or armchair basketball again. The delegation then went to the André-Darrigade stadium to meet the sections labeled Generation 2024, with young athletes from the Albret college (basketball and rugby), Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle colleges and high schools (football, tennis , fencing and triathlon).
