The sports caravan is back on track.

The sports caravan is finally underway.
It was presented Monday evening at the departmental council of Nice in the presence of Charles Ange Ginésy, the former deputy mayor of Valberg, who was replacing Eric Ciotti on this occasion (reelected Sunday to the National Assembly.)
26 dates, for a tour focused on sports and citizenship.

The 2017 sports caravan is here.
This year, it will travel to 26 communes in the Alpes Maritimes.

For the first time, the caravan will stop in 3 new towns: La Gaude, Roquette sur Siagne, and Grave sur Peille. It will then return to towns that have been neglected for several years. We think of Cipières, Tourettes sur Loup, Clans, and Villefranche-sur-Mer.

After these 6 stops, the caravan will head to the seaside with Villeneuve-Loubet and La Colle sur Loup. Cities where, according to Philippe Manassero, there is a strong potential for activities.

Once this initial leg of the tour is completed, the caravan will turn inland. It will stop in Opio, Levens, Falicon.
St Martin du Var, l’Escarène, Clans, Contes, Roquesteron, Auron, Puget-Théniers, Guillaume, Valberg, Sospel, Breil sur Roya, Menton.

The tour will end at the theater of the sea in Golfe Juan. An evening will be organized for the volunteers and everyone who has been involved throughout this caravan.

The central theme this year will be based on the axis of sport and citizenship.
An axis developed by elite athletes, hopefuls, and also the presidents of the departmental committees of the Alpes Maritimes.

With the aim of Paris 2024’s candidacy, a game was launched in the department in the shape of the Eiffel Tower (half-twister, half-hopscotch with the Olympic rings). It will be improved until 2024 for the opening of the games, which we hope will be in Paris.

To support the candidacy, a postcard has been created. It is to be completed by parents, children, athletes, and all those who wish to see Paris obtain the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The cards will be handed to high-level athletes at the end of the sports caravan.

After a well-delivered speech on the values of sports, it’s the turn of the mayor of Valberg to speak.

He extends his congratulations to Eric Ciotti the president of the departmental council, newly elected deputy as well as to the Vice-President in charge of sports, Eric Pauget (the deputy mayor of Antibes) who could not be present.

He offers them his support in defending the interests of the Alpes Maritimes department.

He continues, “I would like to tell you that listening to Philippe Manassero and visiting all the stands, I have felt the fruit of all the work we have sown with Eric Ciotti at the level of the departmental council.

Receiving the minister of Sports not long ago in Valberg to launch prevention, I was thinking of the civic contracts Philippe Manassero has recruited. They allow for a number of results today.

The president of the golf section also confided in me that he has taken these civic services for his golf activities. There is a dynamic there, with the innovation of these young contracts that allows for this Eiffel Tower today.

These events take place throughout the year. The Olympic departmental committee receives more than 110,000 euros annually from the department to hold this beautiful caravan, which brings together all the organizers, all the volunteers who surround you today. We find them in all the communes of the Alpes Maritimes department.

There are truly more than 2,600 kilometers that are traveled. 6,600 children are reached. 80% of these children are from the Alpes Maritimes. They are aged 4 to 8 years. The Alpes Maritimes department is dynamic in this regard.

I was told earlier that in other departments of France, (it’s the tennis instructor who explained it to me a bit off the record), there is not the same dynamic. He also wanted to thank the department for its policy on disability.

Here too, the disability policy we are pursuing is reflected in the departmental sports policy. We can only be delighted.”

But what would this beautiful sports policy be without the accompanying prevention? That’s why on Monday, a workshop was presented by the firefighters on cardiac arrest and life-saving gestures.