On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, the Stade Louis II, under a radiant sun, served as a setting for the 28th edition of the School Athletic Games and was a benevolent witness to the new success of this sporting day. The Monegasque Anti-Doping Committee was able to set up its information stand there before participating in the traditional medal ceremony.
Sport as a learning of founding values
For their 28th edition, the School Athletic Games have once again met their dual objective: to be a celebration in which sport is both a vehicle for natural learning and a game that brings meaning to physical activity.
All the individual or relay race events such as the long jump and high jump which were practiced by some 350 students in classes of 7nd of the Principality, presented these two aspects.
- The individual race because it learns to react to the starting signal, to go straight, to continue its effort until the finish line but also because, in its playful aspect, it involves speed, stride, terrain and breathing which determine the essential element: the rhythm.
- The relay because through the transmission of the witness, it gives awareness of belonging to a team, and because marked by the concern to make it progress as quickly as possible, it allows everyone to understand that they are collaborating in a collective task but also because it requires each relay runner and relay to know what to do, when to do it, where to do it and how to do it;
- jumps because they learn the connection that must exist between the run-up and the momentum, the mastery of the break between the momentum and the jump and they implement complex coordinations insofar as to jump far, you have to fly as long as possible and where to jump high, you have to master your run-up, your takeoff, your orientation in front of the bar, but also because a successful jump with a good reception provides a joyful sense of accomplishment.
The students were able to learn about doping and its risks at the stand of the Monegasque Anti-Doping Committee run by its President, Philippe Orengo, by its Head of the Permanent Secretariat, Mrs. Andrea Alessio, by Doctor Tonelli, head of the Training, Prevention, Education Commission and by its Chargé de Mission, Jérémy Bottin. Ms. Catherine Farneti, head of section at the National Youth and Sports Education Department and Mr. Claude Bollati, Deputy Mayor of Monaco, gave the CMA stand their kind visit.
Sharing and transmission
Under a radiant sun, the Stade Louis II once again served as the setting for this beautiful sporting event organized by the Directorate of National Education, Youth and Sports with the support of the Monegasque Athletics Federation, la Croix Rouge and with which the Monegasque Anti-Doping Committee has joined again.
Proposed by Jérémy Bottin, the Committee's Chargé de Mission, a former Olympian, this game was not chosen at random. On the one hand, it was a classic event of the Ancient Olympic Games before being an official event of the modern Olympic Games during the following 5 Olympiads (photos opposite) as well as at the 1906 Interim Games held in Athens for celebrate the 10nd anniversary of the renovation of the Olympic Games. On the other hand and above all, it lends itself perfectly to the illustration of the way in which doping, which is cheating, breaks the fairness of sport. Thus during the game, an adult surreptitiously came to support one of the two teams to make it win… naturally triggering, as was the desired educational goal, the team's protests " loser ”.
After an epic tug of war initiated by Jérémy Bottin, which made it possible to pass, in a playful way, a certain number of messages on doping to young athletes, the CMA mission manager undergoes a routine check ...
Tug of war was a main event of the first five editions of the Olympic Games of the modern era: Paris (1900), Saint-Louis (1904), London (1908), Stockholm (1912) and Antwerp (1920). The tug of war was also present at the 1906 Interim Games held in Athens to celebrate the 10e anniversary of the Olympic Games renovation.
Finally, the Committee, which joined in the award ceremony by offering pouches containing in particular its emblematic Frisbee, also wishes to join in the tribute paid by Ms. Isabelle Bonnal, Director of National Youth Education and des Sports, surrounded by her close collaborators, to Ms. Joëlle Bini and Ms. Elizabeth Please, who have driven the continued success of this event from the outset.
He thanked them here for the always cordial welcome given to the various speakers of the Committee and is already looking forward to the next edition, the reins of which are now entrusted to Ms. Christine Sabbatini.
