This is normally a tradition, but for these 2024 Olympic Games
, some French teams will be housed at Insep rather than the Olympic village, announces the director of the Institute, Fabien Canu. Are concerned the teams of France water polo and badminton.
The National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance, located in the Bois de Vincennes, will also welcome at that time certain substitutes and team members. not accredited to go to the Olympic Village. Once their competition is over, the athletes will have the opportunity to stay in the village, currently under construction in Saint-Denis. In the same way, Insep will welcome athletes paralympics
during the period of the Games (between August 28 and September 8).
Everything for France
Insep will close its doors to foreign delegations from January 2024, just over six months before the start of the Olympics on July 26. Arrived a year ago at the head of Insep, Fabien Canu, former judoka and head of Olympic preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, says he is “entered into a permanent race against time” for this 2024 edition. “We have no time to lose, we have to make sure that things don’t drag out too much”, he explains. On the results side, Fabien Canu notes “an encouraging dynamic” in recent months as in swimming, in track cycling very recently or in 3X3 basketball after mixed results at the last Tokyo Games. France, which is organizing the Olympic Games a hundred years after those of 1924, aims to be in top 5 nations at the Paris Olympics.