Due to a joint work involving the French Hockey Federation (FFH), the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, the Nationwide Company for Sports activities (ANS) the Hauts-de-Seine Division and with the assist of the Worldwide Hockey Federation, three golf equipment in France will obtain the turf that was used on the Yves-du Manoir stadium for the Paris 2024 Olympics hockey tournaments.
The French Hockey Federation says it’s “proud to profit from the legacy of fabric from Paris 2024”.
The three Olympic pitches have been bequeathed to a few French golf equipment – particularly, T.A.C. le Touquet, FC Lyon (based mostly within the close by metropolis of Caluire), in addition to the Segré en-Anjou-Bleu – with the goal of constant the event of hockey inside their geographical scope. These three golf equipment have been chosen following a name for tenders launched by the FFH on 4 November 2022, with the assist of Paris 2024 and monitored by the legacy grounds fee.
Along with the technical standards referred to within the pointers established by Paris 2024 and the FIH, the choice standards have been:
- The present construction of the candidate
- The candidate membership’s improvement challenge, together with the academic hockey part
- A dedication to actions to advertise hockey, together with the administration and internet hosting of a nationwide or worldwide occasion, annually, a minimum of for the next 5 years
- A dedication from the proprietor of the land (metropolis, college, and so forth.) to have solely hockey performed on this facility
- The dedication by the identical proprietor to take care of the use for a minimal interval
- The affect on the native hockey scope of the allocation of those 3 pitches
On the finish of the decision for purposes, the FFH submitted to Paris 2024 and the ANS for validation the three golf equipment chosen to obtain these pitches, acquired with the monetary assist of the ANS.
All three French golf equipment are delighted to be the recipients of those Olympic pitches. FC Lyon and Le Touquet will set up them within the coming weeks. On the Segré-en-Anjou Bleu aspect, the land shall be laid in 2025.
FIH President Tayyab Ikram stated: “Legacy is a significant goal for sports activities occasion organisers, and much more so with occasions of such a excessive magnitude because the Olympics.
I wish to congratulate the French hockey neighborhood for having put the legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympic hockey tournaments very excessive on their agenda. I’m satisfied that the three golf equipment recipients of the world-class turf used for the Video games, produced by our World Provider Polytan, are overwhelmed and can promptly see the advantages of this for their very own improvement.
And naturally, legacy goes past the gear. The resounding success of the Olympic tournaments have paved the best way for a vivid future and progress of hockey in France.”
FFH President Isabelle Jouin stated: “This materials legacy is a good success, based mostly on cooperation with our strategic stakeholders: Paris 2024, FIH, the ANS and the Hauts-de-Seine Division. I’m very pleased with this mutual understanding of the challenges of the expansion of hockey in our nation.”
These pitches are from the newest era of Polytan pitches, Poligras Paris GT zero, the primary climate-neutral artificial hockey turf.