2023-05-17 09:00:00
Over the years, INSEP has structured a tailor-made offer offered to high-level athletes on school, university and professional training, but also in terms of professional integration and retraining.
As Paris 2024 approaches, the spotlight is increasingly on athletes and their preparation. For many, they have benefited from the support of the National Institute of Sport and Performance (INSEP). A structure dedicated to the high level. As soon as they enter INSEP, high-level athletes benefit from tailor-made support studied and concerted with the athlete and his management. Over time, this support has been redesigned and improved thanks to the commitment of all the Institute’s staff, and in particular the teams of the high-level division.
The schedules are arranged and the courses can be individualized and spread over several years according to the profiles and constraints of the athletes who are in training. The particularity of INSEP is to have maintained on-site training: the unity of location remains an attractive factor for integrating a course. Beyond training, INSEP offers support to facilitate access to employment and retraining. Athletes are helped in their professional integration process. They benefit from interventions at different levels, ranging from simple advice on job search techniques to skills assessments, including transition support (coaching, listening, self-confidence exercises, etc.).
Support tailored to the needs of athletes
The end of a sporting career is prepared well in advance, throughout the sporting career. But sometimes, the cessation is abrupt and requires more extensive and long-term support, depending on individual needs. This is why the 4 referents, in charge of supporting the performance project for high-level athletes, work in collaboration with the INSEP Psychology Unit in order to support each athlete who requests it.
“Young athletes who already have great maturity, a team and competitive spirit that they put to good use during their training. They develop skills of which they are not necessarily aware. By supporting them in their life project, and their professional project as soon as they arrive at INSEP, we also contribute to their sporting emergence, because the three are inseparable. »explains Anne Cozzolino, Deputy Head of the High Level Unit at INSEP.
For Patrick Roult, head of the High Level division at INSEP, “Studies show that all the nations that have significantly increased the number of Olympic medals they have won are nations that have emphasized the leadership of both sportswomen and sportspeople and their management. In the Netherlands, for example, concern for the autonomy and therefore the leadership of young athletes is permanent and integrated into their sports training. » Thanks to INSEP and its daily work, more medals could therefore fall into the tricolor bag in 2024.
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