Nearly ten years after her death, Camille Muffat gave her name to a swimming pool which has just been inaugurated in Aubervilliers. The swimmer’s parents were present, as were several figures in French swimming.
A few months before the 10th anniversary of the tragic disappearance of Camille Muffat, a swimming pool named after the Olympic 400m freestyle champion in London in 2012 was inaugurated in Aubervilliers on Wednesday. In the presence of the swimmer’s parents, her teammates from the 4x200m bronze relay in London Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne and Mylène Lazare, and the Olympic medalists in Paris on the 4x100m medley relay Maxime Grousset and Yohann Ndoye-Brouard.
An 8,200m2 aquatic center with a 50x25m Olympic pool, rare equipment in Seine St Denis where one in two young people do not know how to swim when they enter middle school.
After a demonstration relay and a synchronized swimming show by sisters Charlotte and Laura Tremble, European champions and recently retired from the pools, Grousset and Ndoye Brouard took part in a “Swimmer and Citizen” operation which they sponsor and which has already allowed more than 1000 children to learn to swim. 95 young people from Aubervilliers took part in workshops with the world champions in the 100m butterfly and the European champions in the 200m backstroke.
At the end of the event, a check for 5,000 euros was given by the town of Aubervilliers to the Petits Princes association which works to make the dreams of children and adolescents affected by the disease come true.
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