TABLE TENNIS: The Ping Tour caravan passing through Marsannay-la-Cte this Saturday

This event around table tennis travels throughout France to promote this sport. In Bourgogne-Franche-Comt, the French Table Tennis Federation has selected the Marsannay-la-Cte club to host the Ping Tour 2022.

Organized in all regions of France from May 6 to September 10, 2022 by the French Table Tennis Federation and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, the Ping Tour caravan will make a total stop in 28 cities. labeled Terre de Jeux 2024, including this Saturday, July 9, in Marsannay-la-Cte. The main objective of these days is to promote physical activity and table tennis in particular.

“A lot of people don’t know it, but table tennis is an extremely complete sport and can be practiced from the age of 4,” explains Stphane Relier, director of Table Tennis Cercle Lac in Marsannay-la-Cte, (TTCLM) and to continue this sport has been in full expansion for several years and has just crossed the bar of 200,000 licensees since 2019.

Marsannay-la-Cte table tennis club

Stephane Connect : Our club is in good health with 140 members, which is a very good figure compared to other Clubs in Bourgogne-Franche-Comt. For 8 years, we are in full development on the practice leisure and competitive, on the practice in sport health, in handisport. Our club is present at the highest regional level and we are aiming for national accession no later than 2023. An ambition that has certainly seduced the FFTT to leave us the organization of the Ping-Tour 2022 in Bourgogne Franche-Comt

The ping-tour at Marsannay-la-Cte

We are going to present the Discipline in all these forms in seven game worlds, from the youngest age to people with Disabilities and frailties. There will be the free-ping universe offering everyone the possibility of playing in a slightly offbeat way on tables of all shapes and sizes. A competition universe with demonstrations in the presence of high-level players to break the image of camping sport. A competition area will allow you to measure yourself against these friends during different matches. And then we will have the virtual-ping, a virtual reality stand, technological evolution obliges

Breaking the image of sport camping

With the presence of high-level players, we want to show that table tennis can be played in competition. They will face each other in fierce matches in front of the public. The most seasoned could even try to challenge them. Thanks to the Techni-Ping stand, the emphasis will be on in-depth technique for those who want to discover how to progress. Relaunch robots and speed cameras will be installed

Saturday July 9

This Sporting event, open to all and to which access will be free, will be held from 10 am to 6 pm at the Esplanade des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen in Marsannay-la-Cte. No prior registration. The stands will be open to everyone. Animations, games, presence of musical formations will punctuate the day around the catering area.

Norbert Banchet
Pictures : TTCLM

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