Bordeaux Boxers no longer have access to the Mériadeck ice rink.

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Clément Carpentier - 20 Minutes

  • Several Gironde clubs can no longer play and train due to the decree of the Gironde prefecture.

  • For the moment, the prefect refuses to give exemptions to these clubs which do not know how to do while matches arrive.

  • They are the only ones in France in this case.

    The Ministry of Sports has decided to take up the case.

It is a decision that is causing a lot of waves.

The prefect of the Gironde Fabienne Buccio refuses to give an exemption to several high-level clubs in the department to have access to their sports structures.

This Monday, these clubs can not play and not even train.

They are hockey players from Boxers de Bordeaux (Ligue Magnus), handball players from Mérignac (Ligue Féminine), basketball players from JSA de Bordeaux (Nationale 1), volleyball players from Burdis and Saint-Jean d'Illac…

Where the situation becomes very complicated for these clubs is that the Gironde prefecture is the only one in France to have taken this decision.

For example, we continue to play and train in the Paris region or in Marseille and Nice where the health situation is worse than in Bordeaux.

Whether in Boxers or MHB, the leaders are wondering how to do it and are trying to organize.

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An "incomprehensible" decision for the Boxers

The most urgent situation is that of Bordeaux hockey players.

They should simply receive the Rapaces de Gap on Tuesday evening at the Mériadeck rink.

For the moment, the order of the prefect prohibits the holding of this match: “It is incomprehensible.

We're 24 hours away from a game.

We asked the questions on Friday and we haven't received an official answer yet.

We can't even train!

During that time, we play in other places more affected than ours ”, despairs Thierry Parienty, the president of the club.

Next match Tuesday evening 8:15 pm on the ice of the Mériadeck ice rink against @Lesrapacesdegap!


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“We were set to 1000 spectators after we had to adapt the ice and now we can't even have access to it.

How are we going to do without training for the away matches?

If the decision is maintained, it will be necessary to go to train two hours from Bordeaux!

We don't necessarily have the means.

It would cost us at least 2,000 euros per day.

The situation is very complicated… ”, he adds.

He specifies that if his team must stop for 15 days (the time of the decree), it takes as much to re-athletize.

And sports fairness?

Thierry Parienty prefers not even to think about it.

He is now waiting for a positive sign from the prefecture.

The MHB plans to go train in Marmande

A few kilometers away, Raphaël Benedetto awaits the same sign.

The sporting director of Mérignac Handball made his exemption at the end of the weekend without having received an answer for the moment.

“We would at least like to be able to train because we have a match to prepare [in Chambray].

We have not yet requested the postponement, ”he explains.

Raphaël Benedetto already imagines all possible scenarios such as going to train three times a week in Marmande in the Landes with two other sessions in Bordeaux outdoors.

He recalls, like his comrade from the Boxers, that his team is the only one to find itself in this situation in its championship.

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