A Paralympic medalist gives his name to a sports infrastructure in the Channel

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Bronze medalist to Sydney 2000 Paralympic Gamesfour years after his honorable 5^e place to Atlantaalready, on the Saint-Lois tatami, David Guillaume, although blindimmediately guessed the weaknesses of his opponent and nimbly swept it away with a discreet sasae.

A dojo inaugurated

The judo is a sports the contact and for the etiopath the practice of profession Would it not be an asset, an asset that Michel Richomme, former judoka and maire from Pont-Hébert (Manche)?

In the evening of Friday November 15, 2024the public pontois, young and old athletes, local elected officials, departmental, regional and national, the first city councilor and the eponymous hero inaugurated the David-Guillaume dojo.

Open to schools and associations

In 2020the multipurpose room construction project already developed by the municipality previous one had come up against the competence of the community of agglomerations.

The 30 judokas of the club edges of Vire then found themselves in the gymnasium of the Thére high school, rented as an annex by the Agnais club which had welcomed them.

Then, registration for the “1,000 solidarity dojos” project in May 2023followed work in September pour a cost of €102,302 including €20,000 paid by the municipality, materialized into a dojo open today to schoolsat the Agneaux – Pont-Hébert judo club, at the gendarmerie of Saint-Jean-de-Daye and Rural Families.

Were therefore urgently invited to the inauguration the jujitsu teacher Lucie Dupin, originally from Hommet-d'Arthenay, university champion of France and Europeand David Guillaume who found in the sporting discipline of ses exploits « self-confidence and personal progress ».

From our correspondent Gérard HAMEL

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