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Insep reopens its doors and revives the Olympic dynamic

2020-05-18T18:26:04.347Z


Since Monday, the French sport training center has once again welcomed the athletes of the French team. 


J - 420. The National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (Insep) has started counting the days between the French Olympic team and the Tokyo Games, postponed to the summer of 2021 ( July 23-August 8). If the historic center for the training of French sport will not immediately find the eight hundred people who frequented it almost daily before the confinement linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has indeed reopened its doors and its sports facilities this Monday. Security and maintenance agents, medical experts, coaches and sportspeople are trying to resume their habits despite health constraints.

Present - and masked - to greet the reopening of the Bois de Vincennes campus (94) where she was a resident during her swimming career, Roxana Maracineanu underlined “the unknown, as for the effect of the virus on the organisms that practice high dose, high intensity sport ”. But she also recognized that it was "important for top athletes to find the path to training and group dynamics".

 "We had to constantly provide answers to athletes worried about the situation"

Ghani Yalouz

“It's a bit like a new start, welcomed the director general of Insep, Ghani Yalouz. Please note that the recovery is and will be gradual. When I am told about the prospect of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, I say that I already want to focus on the year 2021… ”In the past two months, the boss of Insep has had to face very realities concrete, during confinement: “We had to constantly provide answers to athletes, worried about the situation and looking for information. We had a lot of bilateral discussions with the Ministry of Sports and the National Sports Agency about Olympic preparation ... "

Insep officials did not remain inactive. While the athletes were at home, Yalouz and his teams prepared the follow-up. “An athlete who trains at home without a competitive goal is going through difficult times. He must be supported, ”notes Thierry Soler, head of the performance division. Uncertainty around the dates of Olympic qualification tournaments, then the definitive postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by the IOC, have been a source of significant stress for organizations in preparation for these deadlines for three years.

The renovated Olympic swimming pool and athletics track

“During the confinement, remembers Yalouz, we were aware that the recovery would require thoroughness and precision around them. We had to improve our proposals. We have therefore launched a plan to improve and renovate our equipment. ” The Olympic swimming pool has been completely drained and has undergone major work. The tartan athletics track has been given special care to give it new training possibilities. "Our partners have enabled us to make these investments," emphasizes Denis Avdibégovic, Deputy DG. Just as we were able to install hydroalcoholic gel dispensers throughout the campus. The buildings and premises that house and welcome the athletes have been completely cleaned and will be regularly disinfected. ”

No question of rushing the organizations The result of a collegial work with the DTNs of the federations and the pole directors of the Insep, the re-athletics program of the Olympic France team has been validated by around sixty high-level officials. Doctor Sébastien Le Garrec, director of the medical center of the institute, contributed to this protocol, the keyword of which is "listening". No question of rushing the organizations or the spirits. No unnecessary pressure can be exerted on more fragile profiles than it sometimes appears.

Maracineanu welcomes "the gradual reopening of Insep"

"Support for athletes is about health, education and re-athletics, it's a whole," says Thierry Dumaine, head of the performance support unit. In two six-week periods, athletes and sportsmen will be invited to assess their physical and mental capacities, before relaunching themselves in the life project that constitutes the Olympic objective. “Until September, we will collect physical, mental and biomechanical information that will allow us to have a photograph of each profile, together reveal Nicolas Prévost and Enguerand Aucher, physical trainers and re-athletics. A dynamic profiling test is already available online. ”

"Such a confinement situation will happen again one day, unfortunately"

Gaël Guilhem, director of the Sport, expertise and performance laboratory at Insep

“This summer, plans Gaël Guilhem, director of the Sport, expertise and performance laboratory at Insep, we want to take the time with the athletes. They must regain their rhythm of life and training. It is no longer a question of being out of phase. I am certain that we will also have to slow them down in their quest for sensations ... "And to conclude:" Beyond the Olympic preparation, we will have to capitalize on this data. We are certain, in fact, that such a confinement situation will one day recur, unfortunately. ”

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