It’s not easy to try pétanque, sitting down, with leather balls of different weights in your hands. Valentin and Nourou, 13-year-old middle school students, tried it for a few minutes. Without much success. In any case, nothing compares with the dexterity of Aurélie Aubert, Paralympic boccia champion.
Gold medalist in the discipline at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the disabled athlete returned to Richebourg (Yvelines), to the institute for the disabled near Mantes-la-Jolie where she spent several years, in order to teaching the basics of his art to dozens of children in the region… who knew nothing about it until then. “I’m discovering and it’s not easy. I had difficulty being precise and finding the right position on my chair,” admits Valentin, an able-bodied schoolboy from Houdan.
