Emmeline Ndongue, French basketball champion is currently in Saint-Martin with a specific goal: to transmit the values of Olympism to young people and make them want to play sports. Monday she met the students of the Clair Saint-Maximin school in Quartier d'Orléans and found on the Grand Case beach two classes of sixth grade from Mont des Accords middle school during their swimming lessons.
The Olympic vice-champion is an education ambassador at Paris 2024. Beyond organizing a sporting event, the Paris 2024 committee wants "all of society to benefit from the legacy left by the Games".
Emmeline Ndongue thus goes to schools in mainland France and overseas to talk about sport and its values with children; "We know that athletes have a great influence on children," emphasizes Damien Combredet, Sport and Society manager, who accompanies Emmeline in Saint-Martin.
"We want to strengthen sport in education and encourage its practice," says the latter. "We also want to present to the educational world the tools that we have put in place to better integrate sport in education, to explain how we can develop bridges between the academic world and the sports movement", specifies the one who also wanted to meet with EPS teachers and the Usp Îles du Nord who regularly organize actions in this direction. (soualigapost.com)
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