As part of its policy of integrating people with disabilities, the city of Nice is organizing from Monday, June 10 to Friday, June 14, 2013, five days of sports and recreational activities dedicated to people with disabilities under the title “All Together”.
This festive and friendly event, sponsored by Jean-Noël Ferrari, Olympic and world team fencing champion, Nathalie Cuny, French 10-kilometer handisport champion, and Laurent Giammartini, Paralympic wheelchair tennis champion, allows people with mental, physical, or sensory disabilities to be valued through adapted sports practice and thus experience the same sensations as able-bodied participants.
Activities are adapted based on the disabilities and will allow each expected participant to discover different categories of activities.
The proposed sports activities: Football, basketball, handball, pétanque, mountain biking, tandem cycling, horseback riding, running, wheelchair racing, running with a guide (visual impairment), wheelchair racing with a guide, running (hearing impairment), sea walk, spelunking, swimming in an outdoor pool, climbing, athletics (long jump, sprint), tennis/wheelchair tennis, dance, blowpipe, boccia, table tennis, fencing.
The activities: Creation of figurines, introduction and awareness of traffic education, face painting, painting workshops, and wooden course by the French Association for Paralyzed Persons.
The participants: 2,600 people are expected, including children and adults with disabilities from specialized establishments in the Alpes-Maritimes region and students from four elementary schools in the city of Nice (Digue des Français 1 and 2, Bois de Boulogne 1 and 2).
