Rowing: Foreigners also train in the Vaires-sur-Marne Olympic Basin

after a session kayak cross of three members French national teamAlien blasphemy installed zig zag gates on a basin Fares-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), Thursday, July 13. Nour Ait Kaddour (The Kingdom of Morocco), Eve Bourgeois (Senegal), Oliver Buechner And Finn the Butcher (New Zealand) train during 1 hour along with other canoeists And French kayaksuch as French international Jules Bernardet.

Nour Ait Kaddour is alert when choosing his seat: “I see who will quarrel with me.” he take the chance to expertise And from here Speed From his friend, all year round, l monitor it When he passes in front of him: “It allows me to quickly improve information.” The Moroccan does not have much time. He arrived on July 11th in training, and put his canoe into the water Seven one-hour sessions over four days.

Learn about pool formation

here For the third time in a year that athletic from Montpellier Trains on the future Olympic site. The common goal for all athletes? science there pelvic configuration.

This has evolved since the pool opened in 2019 according to Nour, but athletes can train in it at its current standards: “It’s Bigger and more fun to move around than ever before, but it is still difficult to maintain a high speed. “The movements of the water are clear and direct,” says the young Moroccan. the Unknown only remain today The position where the doors will be installed during the Paris Olympics 2024.

Meanwhile, the aquarium where A.J World Cup in early October He believes it takes “a lot of practice” to make good use of the relief and currents.

“I train every day in Vaires-sur-Marne”

to Bring in the Olympic Games in Paris 2024And Eve Bourgeois east He came to live in Vaires-sur-Marne. He left the Cesson-Sévigné Foundation for sports study and kayak base in February 2021. the important For him it was science Marne, the environmentthe climate and the pelvis. »

“I train every day in Vaires-sur-Marne,” he admits. Since Decemberhe did not do Practically only at home. for him Excursions only They were in a raceor in Internships, for two weeks, to “get your mind off things”, at the end of July. Today, the canoe is estimated You know the “French team’s rally destiny”.

Thanks to the fairness that the International Kayak Federation would like, “we can never say that a local will win the stage,” warns Noureddine, even if Whoever trains on site has a ‘huge advantage’.

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