Train in a Myrtha pool, compete in a Myrtha pool

Train in a Myrtha pool, compete in a Myrtha pool” sounds like a slogan, but it’s not, it’s simply the journey of many athletes, including Agathe Pauli.

She trains at the Stade Nautique in the town of Antibes on the Côte d’Azur, a training facility which in recent years has required complete renovation. Thanks to its innovative solutions, Myrtha Pools provided the ideal solution with a different approach thanks to its three-dimensional building modeling (BIM), as well as a construction method that saves time and provides unique precision even in the smallest details.

The total scope of the project included the renovation of the outdoor pool, as well as a new 50-meter training pool for the club’s team named Le Cercle des Nageurs d’Antibes. This club, CN Antibes, has been a crucible of high-level aquatic development over the years, producing legends such as Olympic medallist Alain Bernard, former swimming world record holder Franck Esposito and top-level Paralympic athlete Élodie Lorandi.

This context was very important when Agathe began to emerge as a top-level athlete in swimming events. The renovated Stade Nautique provided first-rate training facilities and enabled Pauli, with exemplary coaching, also thanks to the presence of 16 portholes enabling athletes to be followed underwater during their training, making it easier for coaches to correct and perfect the movements of tomorrow’s champions. All this means that athletes can obtain detailed feedback on their training sessions and follow the advice they need to improve for high-level events. Its local swimming pool is now considered one of the best facilities in Europe.

Pauli’s preparation also featured a Myrtha pool in Overseas France: as part of her pre-Games program, she took part in a swimming camp in Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. The Dugazon aquatic complex in the city of Pointe-à-Pitre included a Myrtha pool and also offered a rigorous training experience in the heat, which certainly helped Pauli to prepare as well as possible.

As a result, Pauli has been able to put his many months of rigorous training in a Myrtha pool to good use as he prepares to take on the world’s best para-athletes in the months ahead. For the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, Myrtha Pools has also supplied the competition and warm-up pools at Paris la Défense Arena, where Agathe will train and swim her way to Olympic glory, with the advantage of already knowing the pools in which she swims.