T(R)OUSS’AU SPORT: the sports festival at the Armand-Trousseau hospital

This event is part of the continuity of the dynamics of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to encourage the practice of sport for all and its health benefits, promote inclusion through sport among children with disabilities and raise awareness among children and their families about disability.

Many activities are on the program:

• adapted or not sports initiations : combat sports (wrestling, MMA, boxing and self-defense), board sports (roller skating and skateboarding), and other urban sports (climbing, Just Dance, break-dancing), but also fencing, boccia, wheelchair football and prosthetic courses;
• privileged time for discussions with professionals health and sport;
• meetings with high-level athletesmedalists at the Olympic, Paralympic or World Championship Games, present that day:
• Audrey Prieto Rodrigues, world wrestling champion in 2007 and patron of this 2024 edition;
• Habd-Eddine Sebiane, four times French wheelchair football champion and vice-world champion;
• Thaïs Larché, English boxing athlete;
• Julien Gasc, para-climbing world vice-champion athlete (present only on Friday).

Practical information:

• address: Armand-Trousseau AP-HP hospital, 26 avenue du Dr Arnold Netter, 75012 Paris;
• Friday, September 20, 2024: day reserved for patients and students from 13 school classes near the hospital;
• Saturday September 21, 2024: day open to the public, free entry without registration.

This third edition will also be an opportunity to inaugurate a health trail and an inclusive play area, financed by the Petits Princes Association, in the presence of its general director Dominique Bayle.

The health pathway was born from the following observation: hospitalized children, especially for a prolonged period, need motor stimulation if their care does not justify strict bed rest. Physical activity is essential as part of comprehensive patient care, both morally and physically. This health pathway will provide hospitalized children with the opportunity to have fun while practicing physical activity between two treatments. It also aims to create a link around physical activity between the child and their companion (adapted physical activity teacher, physiotherapist, educator, parent, etc.) and more broadly between visitors and the hospital.

The fitness trail consists of 8 installations: an adapted swing, an underground trampoline and an arm duo for people with reduced mobility, but also an elliptical bike, a double cavalcade, a double walker, a ping-pong table and a connected wall.

In video: return on the 2nd edition of T(R)OUSS’AU SPORT