For Christian Estrosi: “This is a project to meet the needs of high-level swimmers. Fabrice Pellerin’s team is currently training at the Jean Bouin pool. Training sessions coexist with other clubs and the public: hence, it is challenging to manage. This represents 34 hours per week, which is 30% of the pool’s total usage and 7 hours per week in the gym. Here we will have a suitable structure to support the ambitions of Nice’s swimming on a long-term basis.”
The project
Complex located in the future City of Sports on a municipal plot of 13,300 m², including an outdoor Olympic pool of 50m x 25m, a building for changing rooms, restrooms, reception, offices, a gym, and treatment rooms = 400 m², a parking lot with 16 spots, of which 4 are reserved for PRM (People with Reduced Mobility) and 10 spaces for two-wheelers.
This project will cost 5.5 million euros, of which 15% will be borne by the State.
The Nice school
With 9 Olympic medals won in London in 2012, Nice now stands as the capital of French swimming, ahead of Marseille and Antibes.
All of the Nice medalists are registered at Olympic Nice Natation*, a historic club that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
Except for Clément LEFERT, who has retired from swimming, Camille MUFFAT (23), Yannick AGNEL (20), Anna SANTAMANS (20), and Charlotte BONNET (18) are still the flag bearers of this Nice school and the French team, joined by newcomer Damien JOLY (20) at ONN.
Behind them are promising young talents Béryl GASTALDELLO (18) and Marie WATTEL (15 and a half), who have just qualified for the world swimming championships in Barcelona (July 28 – August 4, 2013).
The school of Nice made another significant impact at the recent French Championships two weeks ago in Rennes: 8 titles and 10 podiums in total.
Six swimmers from Nice will compete at the world championships in Barcelona next summer.
It should have been seven, but Anna SANTAMANS missed her qualification by 3 hundredths, despite her French championship title in the 50m freestyle.
All are aiming for the next Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.
The Aquatic Center will be a structure located in the heart of the future City of Sports and the Eco-Valley, which will include 4 activity centers
The athletics center.
The OGCN center: will host the training center and the amateur and professional sections of the Gym club, including the creation of 4 new football fields near the current Plain Complex.
The municipal football center to be created entirely: consisting of 4 fields dedicated to this activity, complemented by the relocation of field hockey, baseball fields, and handball and basketball courts; the creation of a futsal complex.
The rugby/American football center: on the Arboras complex; creation of a next-generation synthetic field for American football; creation of 2 new play areas.
