Trampoline champions meet the kids of the Omaha club

The Omaha club offered introductory and advanced trampoline sessions on Vierville beach. One Friday, about fifteen children took tests to measure their progress and receive kangaroos: blue for beginners, white for the most advanced and red for budding champions.

Jean-Michel Bataillon, five-time French champion and European champion in 1974, hosted this meeting with Christian Musset, coach of the French espoir team. The children, aged three to twelve, satisfied their monitors with their results.

Georges Labarrière, a gymnastics teacher, and Bruno Caron, a student, both Parisians, supervised the club as chef and sous-chef. Trampoline and swimming activities were to continue until the end of August, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The newspaper presented Omaha as the only Norman club organizing a demonstration with champions every year and indicated that the trampoline then had more than 5,000 licensees in France.

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