The Guardian 13th June 2009
Seulement sur le continent! A special version of the Tour de France for 200 specially selected inmates from around the French prison system.
I see from the report in today’s Guardian that Francois Grosvalet, sports development adviser to the French prison system, is quoted thus: “The role of physical activity in the rehabilitation process has not been fully exploited. Sport can have a calming and balancing effect on prisoners…it can enable them to cope better…”
Participation in sport seems to promise nothing but benficial effects and I believe schools are finding pupils perform better where sport plays a key part in the curriculum. Lets have more of it.
Le Tour des Recidivistes (my title not theirs) started a week or so ago and will finish in a stadium in southern Paris, some days before we arrive in the capital from the opposite direction.