The group arrived exhausted on Tuesday after two weeks of travel. The disabled badminton team from Ukraine will be housed around the Wambrechies-Marquette club where it can train.
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He finished his trip by bus and arrived in Lille on Tuesday morning after two weeks of travel (including several days stuck at the Polish border). This group is the five players of the national handicap team of Ukraine in badminton as well as his trainer accompanied by his family. They fled their country at war as best they could and crossed Europe. With a minibus lent by the town of Marquette, the Badminton Wambrechies-Marquette volunteers went to pick them up in Lille (if they knew they had left, they only learned the day before of their arrival) so that they could join their foster homes.
Reserved slots
They came with the help ofAlexandre Komilkiw, federal executive of the French Badminton Federation, whose family, of Ukrainian origin, lives in Wambrechies. The club will welcome them for several weeks, even several months.
When the Ukrainian (mixed) team recovers from what they have been through over the past few days, they will have the opportunity to train five times a weekthanks to slots that the club will open to them, indicates the president Christophe Guillerme.
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