The Adidas Arena hosted its first basketball match Sunday evening.
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REPORT – Planned for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics, the Adidas Arena officially opened its doors on Sunday, during a basketball match between Paris Basketball and Saint-Quentin.
The big night. Five and a half years after the club was created, Paris Basketball officially took possession of its new arena, the Adidas Arena, inaugurated Sunday with a French championship match against Saint-Quentin. “Super excited! And relieved that it finally happened. Surreal! It will allow the club to reach a whole new level,” the club’s president, David Kahn, recently savored for Le Figaro. “We are entering a new era,” swears sports director Amara Sy.
The club, born from the ashes of Hyères-Toulon in 2018, has been playing in the aging Halle Carpentier (XIIIe) since its creation. “What changes? It would be faster to ask what doesn’t change (laughs),” jokes Parisian interior Michael Kessens. Financed by the City of Paris, the Adidas Arena is as shiny as it is “totally adapted to basketball,” as Sy points out. Designed for the 2024 Olympics, with badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events…
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