The Regional Directorate for Sport (DRD) promoted in Ponta Delgada a Sport of Youngsters Forum that brought together, in the Public Library and Regional Archive Auditorium of the city, a total of 109 participants.
The meeting, which makes part of the program “Youngsters in Training”, reckoned with the participation of speakers known at national and international level.
Among the invited specialists there were Roberto Malina, teacher of the Texas University, investigator of the Academy of Tarleton State and author of more than 300 entries of articles in the PUBMED and Bernard Grosgeorge, former national coach of France’s basketball team, investigator of the National Institute of Physical Education of Paris and author of several books on athletic training.
There were equally present in the initiative the Portuguese investigators Manuel Coelho e Silva and Rui Machado Gomes, of the University of Coimbra.
Given the interest of the theme, the DRD supported the participation of coaches of all the islands with the purpose of giving opportunity to the biggest possible number of technicians included in the training and competition activity of the training levels.
Besides his communication in the Forum, the teacher Bernard Grosgeorge carried out several actions of practical character in the islands of São Miguel (with 42 participants), Terceira (116 participants) and in Faial (51 participants).