"I run in order to survive." Sylvie, who suffers from breast cancer, is one of 35,000 members per week from La Parisienne six km race for women. Their creed: to show that sport can help to heal.
08:00, thousands of runners, ideal for beginners and experienced athletes train in the attack on the Champ de Mars radiation.
"I have a day for a month, just for fun," joked Michele, 78, packing and pink feathers on the head. "I hope that, like my daughter, who had never trotted in your life had."
The route leads through the Trocadero, Eiffel Tower, the Seine, the Champ de Mars, a graduate of the military school.
"The goal is to open. Much more sports not done," said Jennifer Aknin, the organizer, was called and claimed to be the largest gathering of 100% of women in Europe in 1997 to life. The event will be re-written several dozen races for women, launched in France into being reserved.
La Parisienne is committed to both "Sport and Health" program sponsorship. The first helps women develop breast cancer or to treat in remission.
"I trained three times a week. In April it is impossible to 200 meters, and I'm here today," Sylvie, Kaufmann said, 54 years old, the sick, and since 2010 the sport was a "revelation" by Marie -Lawrence that "the possession of his body, relies heavily on chemotherapy."
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Certain types of cancer, physical activity reduces the risk of death by 50%, depending on Cami, partner in the race, which promotes affected by this disease the sport of patients. "It also helps them to fight against the toxicity of the treatment," says Vanessa Schoon, Speaker of the association.
The second program, La Pitié Salpêtrière in cooperation with-in Paris, helps women who are overweight or obese, return to sport. "I do not believe in setting my diet that promises were not fulfilled," Nylann, 33 said. "Today I proved that I am able to cross the finish line as any"
People were invited to the event, Nathalie Pechalat, a bronze medal at the 2014 Figure Skating World Cup "I am not used extended effort. Wanted to test my endurance," says Young.
Most participants were selected through the Registered business, "the story of the development of team spirit," said Martin, 51, came from the mayor of fourteen colleagues Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
Some suffer a disadvantage Gratiane, paraplegic due to an accident. That was the mother of four children, "as well as a great sport," repeating the course of 34 minutes, the eight volunteers who took turns pushing her chair.
