Started with a paraglider jump from Mont-Blanc, the Relais sport planet ends this Sunday in Nice on rollerblades, skate and scooter at the National Sports Museum.
It aims to raise awareness of the environment through the practice of sport and to show the possibilities of doing so while generating as little waste as possible.
For this, the organizers thought of doing this event with local actors, with bulk, gourds and a dematerialized communication campaign.
Hundreds of kilometers by bike, horseback, rowing or even skateboarding, from Mont-Blanc to the Mediterranean. Hundreds of sportspeople, amateurs and professionals alike, all united around an idea: it is possible to organize and participate in a major eco-responsible sporting event.
"It's a bit like a Tour de France but with a caravan which is an electric vehicle and which does not launch goodies", summarizes Adrien, one of the organizers of the giant Relay sport planet which started in Chamonix and will end. this Sunday in Nice. According to him, the double challenge is to set an example and generalize it by "forming a sustainable and environmental sponsorship system, for example." With concrete actions ”. He is thinking in particular of Coca-Cola, official sponsor of the Olympic Games, "one of the largest generators of plastic waste in the world but which still does not set up a real deposit system".
“Everything is a question of consistency, adds Didier Lehénaff, pioneer of eco-responsible sport in France.
In our country, 2.5 million sporting events are organized each year, they generate an average of 5,000 leaflets each time, with t-shirts made on the other side of the planet often offered, and millions of bottles in plastic.
We must change the model.
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"We only leave behind the imprint of our footsteps"
Didier Lehénaff coordinated many sporting events on an international scale in the 1990s and had his awareness at that time. Creator of "eco-games", alternative sports games, he decided to reproduce this model for this relay. “The idea is based on four principles: to create an eco-designed event, co-constructed with the actors of the territories where it takes place, with an importance therefore that it be done by the locals and for the locals and that it is thought for human health and that of the planet. The goal is to leave only the imprint of our footsteps behind us. "
For the last stage of this event which will link Sophia Antipolis to the National Sports Museum in Nice on Sunday, “a dozen associations have come together to do everything possible”, specifies the former triathlete.
If the capital of the Riviera was chosen to close this event, it is not by chance.
There is the inauguration of an exhibition, but it is above all "to retrace the journey that waste takes if it is thrown at the top of a mountain in the Alps", details Marine Jacq-Pietri, creator of 'eco-adventures.
The values of sport for the benefit of the planet
From 10 to 85 years old, simply passionate or even Olympic medalists, the event aims to educate "everyone".
“The values of sport are all the same above all to have a collective spirit, that together we can achieve it.
Practice is also in order to take care of yourself.
This health aspect must also be applied to that of the planet, ”says Marine.
“The Paca region is moreover the most exposed, with the highest density of sporting events organized for its landscapes and its climate,” adds Didier Lehénaff, also founder of the association Un sport vert pour ma planet bleue, which is an activist to put sport at the service of the environment and sustainable development.
He adds: “So, let's be careful that these resources are not all wasted unnecessarily on love of this nature.
There is still time to be responsible and to act.
The planet needs people who are committed, who decide to do the marathon near their home rather than the one in New York, who are moving towards alternatives such as recycling centers for their equipment, who take bulk supplies with gourds.
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For this first edition of the Relais sport planet, the team did not have much resources or time but managed to unite in a month and a half, nearly 200 torchbearers for fifteen disciplines around ten stopover towns.
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