At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the French Basketball teams shone, with three silver medals for the boys in 3×3 and the girls and boys in 5×5. Enough to encourage vocations? “ There is always an OJ effectreplies Benjamin Plancot, president of the Somme Basketball Committee, which has 2,500 members (1,750 young people and 750 adults). There he is even stronger. The problem is that we have neither the human resources nor the reception capacity to accept everyone. » In the Somme, this is true for the clubs of the Amiens metropolis (Longueau, Amiens SC, Cheminots Amiens Sud), “ which are saturated », less for rural clubs.
Handball, which saw the Blues take silver in Paris and their male counterparts fall in the quarter-finals, is also seeing an increase in registrations. “ The clubs have given us a lead compared to last year’s figures at the same time, between 20 and 30%. », Specifies Laurence Lachaud, member of the Board of Directors of the Oise Committee. But for the woman who is also president of the Compiègne Handball Club (CHBC), this attendance is not necessarily due to the performances of the national teams at the Olympics: “ We had so many images of sport this summer that it is generally the search for a sport which explains why the number of licensees is increasing. Handball is also a discipline with values which benefits from a good image among parents. »
But like basketball, it faces difficulties in finding qualified supervisors and slots.
