It is a real success for the athletics club based in Andromeda, six members of the association will participate in the Olympic and Paralympic Games (two others are also on the waiting list). Not as competitors but as volunteers. They are indeed experts, for two of them, as Thierry Duprat, the president of the Bsca, explains: “The two technical judges will intervene both for the Olympics (July 30 to August 11) and the Paralympics (August 27 to 8 September) but we had applied for a long time since December 2022, on a list from the Occitanie league, via the federation, then the Cojo (Olympic organizing committee) and the response reached us last January. and our missions have been explained to us by several videoconferences since then. Official federal referees, we will judge all disciplines and our costs (travel, accommodation, transport in the Paris region) are entirely covered by the Cojo. “technical volunteers”, had applied in August 2022, confirmed in January 2023 and selected last December. They are mobilized throughout the period of the athletics events, with two days of initial training. They must be accommodated by their parents. own means. The organization pays us one meal per day and travel expenses within the Paris region for the days of mobilization.
