The world of sports has been hard-hit by the weather. The assessment of the damage is underway, but numerous sports clubs have been severely damaged.
The president of the CROS (Regional Olympic and Sports Committee), Ivan Coste Maniere, an organization that brings together and represents 60 disciplines and their federations, wanted to react by sending athletes a message of solidarity: “From the Olympic motto, in these days, we only want to keep ‘Stronger’ and wish to contribute, in this week full of international sporting events in the Alpes-Maritimes, to convey the most beautiful intensity of hope for reconstruction with strength, optimism, and solidarity,” he stated.
Words of condolence and comfort for the disaster victims and the families of the victims seem indeed weak, and it is now essential to prove that the solidarity of the sports movement in this department and the Cรดte d’Azur is genuine and pragmatic in these times of great distress and difficulty.
Based in Mandelieu, the epicenter of this disaster, the Regional Olympic and Sports Committee of the Cรดte d’Azur, the oldest CROS in France, had to demonstrate this solidarity ingrained in its genes, as the Agenda 21 and the delegations of which it is the territorial representative of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, alongside its other constituents, the two Departmental Olympic and Sports Committees of the Alpes-Maritimes and Var, act as a true support force for the elected officials and representatives of the State so invested since this tragedy.
Information regarding the different assessments must be quickly relayed by all associative structures, clubs, committees, or leagues to the departmental committees affected by the damage caused by these weather events, to analyze needs and emergencies.
Once this urgent assessment is conducted and completed, it will be together that the active associative and sporting forces of our region will find the urgent measures and support needed for associations in peril or affected.
Inherently united, the members of our associations will find the pooling, transversal measures, and synergies that will enable us to sustain our activities of social cohesion, regional planning, rural development, equal opportunities, health preservation, and the promotion of people with reduced mobility.
