The Lycée Français of Chicago is planning to organize for the first time ever a sporting event between numerous French schools in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
By doing so, the Lycée Français and the French community in Chicago wish to show their enthusiastic support for the City’s bid for the 2016 Olympic Games.
The goal of this meeting is also to provide students with a unique cultural and sporting opportunity, and to show the dynamic of schools working on a common, large-scale project.
The games will take place June 2-4, 2008 in the gymnasium of the Lycée Français as well as on the sports fields off of Recreation Drive in Lincoln Park. The competition will include a variety of mini-tournaments, including team sports, track and field, racket sports, cheerleading, cycling, and a sailing regatta on the lake. The games will open and close with official ceremonies.
This large-scale sporting event will be known to the entire French community in North America since most of the French schools in the major cities have expressed their willingness to participate: Lycée Français de Chicago, LILA of Los Angeles, Lycée Français and Lycéum Kennedy in New York, Lycée Français Lapérouse in San Francisco, Lycée Rochambeau of Washington, Collège Marie de France and Stanislas of Montréal, the Lycée Franco-Mexicain of Mexico.
Each establishment will come with a team of 20 students, or a total of over two hundred participants and as many families directly involved in the games. But beyond these students and families, this event is going to touch and motivate all the students and families of all participating schools.
We believe that these games will be extremely well received by the public and the media, and that this success will establish this event as the not-to-be-missed sporting meeting for all the French schools in North America. The event will convey to the participants and spectators sporting and school values such as: commitment, surpassing oneself, fraternity, team spirit, respect for others and for the rules, fair play, and solidarity.
The Administration and the Sports Department of the LFC.