In Toulouse, the Minister of Sports confirms the repatriation of a swimming pool from the Paris Olympics

Visiting Toulouse this Friday, the Minister of Sports confirmed the repatriation of a swimming pool from the Paris Olympics in which Léon Marchand swam last summer. Gil Avérous also announced that the State will extend its participation in the project. “It is actually planned to install a pool of which 25 meters – it’s a 50 meter pool – will be a legacy of the Olympic Games.

Indeed, I also confirm, even if it does not fall under the State’s control since this part of the basin belongs to the Myrtha Pool company, that Myrtha Pool has agreed to bring back these 25 meters here to Toulouse, which will be supplemented by 25 new meters to make the 50 meter pool. The new extension part costs 2 million. We contribute 20% of these 2 million euros which are added to the 4 million from the FNADT (National Fund for Territorial Planning and Development). That’s why we are ultimately at 4.4 million euros and not 4 million.”

Opening hoped for in September 2027

These announcements are excellent news for the mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole Jean-Luc Moudenc “happy that the State is clearly positioning itself in favor of this major project which will take place in a greater ambition to recompose the island of Ramier”. Project management remains ensured by the TOEC Dauphins club. To this public aid will be added private aid.

A public-private project estimated at 31 million euros which will make it possible to achieve the ambition of the club and the town hall. “The project is progressing well despite iterations linked to the fact that we are in a flood zone. But the latest discussions with the town hall and the prefecture are very favorable. I think that we will submit the building permit at the beginning of 2025 for an inauguration of the swimming pool Léon Marchand and the Cité de la Swimming in September 2027.”

The president of the TOEC Dauphins club has already announced that the Olympic pool which will take place on the roof of the future Cité de la Swimming will bear the name of Léon Marchandthe new Toulouse star with four Olympic titles last summer in Paris who is still licensed to the Dauphins du TOEC in Toulouse where he was still swimming this Friday morning after participating in the Interclubs last weekend in Montauban.