The UCPA swimming pool in Reims is closed for a week to welcome English athletes

Tea time! Over a week, 33 swimmers from the British Olympic team will train in the UCPA pools. To protect their “Olympic bubble”, the UCPA Sports Center Grand Reims campus is closed to the public from July 16 to 24. In the waters of the 50-meter pool, the athletes will be ideally prepared entering the competition on July 27. Among them are many top medal prospects for Great Britain, such as Thomas Dean, double gold medalist in Tokyo in 2020, or Adam Beattie, double Olympic champion in 2016 and 2020 in the 100m breaststroke.

Gold medalists at Reims

As a reminder, the British Olympic delegation has been preparing this project with the city of Reims for more than five years, and the swimmers will not be the only Englishmen to train in the coronation city. The René Tys complex will be occupied by part of the gymnastics, boxing and table tennis teams.

Other foreign delegates were also impressed by the city’s location and modern infrastructure. CREPS in Reims especially welcomes the Norwegian athletics team from 20 July to 8 August. Including the two defending Olympic champions, Karsten Warholm in the 400m hurdles and Jakob Ingebrigtsson in the 1,500m. On the track at Stadt Georges Hebert, the Norwegian stars will have to share their tracks with the Finnish Olympic runners who will arrive on July 22nd and depart on August 5th.