 | I wish you all the best for year 2012!
...and for the following one's too!...
enjoy friends, family, and share happiness!
take care
vince, trai...
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 | The fifth “big event” in 2011 was held Beijing, China.
All the best Asian players came to this tournament and some elite players from Europe as well…...
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 | The French championships were in Niort.
In class 2 (my disability category) :
I played quite well until the semi-finals, where I was defeat...
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 | In association with Damien BEDOS in team, we gained the silver medal; while I reached the 1/4th of final in the single event.
Summary: great fun and ...
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 | The fourth “big event” in 2011 was held in Piestany, Slovak Republik.
All the best world players came to this tournament, including the strongest tea...
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 | The third “big event” in 2011 was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
All the best world players came to this tournament, including the strongest teams f...
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 | The second “big event” in 2011 was held in Lasko, Slovenia.
All the best world players came to this tournament, including the strongest teams from As...
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 | The first “big event” in 2011 was held in Lignano, Italy.
All the best world players came to this tournament, including the strongest teams from Asia...
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 | This second tour took place in Ceyrat, close to Clermont-Ferrand (63). The 20 best French wheelchair players were there, all classes mixed.
My goal w...
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 | During a national training camp in Chartres, we missed the Monday morning session in order to answer to an official invitation by the French President...
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 | I wish you all the very best for the year 2011…
…and the following years too!!!
“Enjoy life my friends, it’s later than you think”
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 | a very high level !
The 1/2 final was against Austria, that we beat 3-0, with a special satisfaction when winning the double.
Then we pl...
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 | Tudo ben…
No match on Monday morning, which allowed us to recover a little bit.
Our fisrt match was against Brazil, with strong competito...
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 | Caramba, still too short…
For the bronze medal, I played against the best Korean player KIM Kyong Mook, who was defeated by his partner KI...
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 | a very long day
The qualification for the final draw was quite hard to get, and I started against a very tough competitor in the 1/8th of ...
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 | a very tough competitor
We had a training day during the end f the “open event”, won by the Korean player Young Gun KIM against the Chinese...
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 | a very nice competition day
Because of the physical difference of classes/categories, every single match I can win in the open event is a ve...
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 | training sessions are over
Here we are !
We trained during 3 days at the impressive sport complex owned by the Korean Paralympic Committee,...
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 | a nice place where to play ping-pong…
One week before the competition opening; we could train at the sport University of Shanghai.
Amongs...
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 | Welcome to the Rhône Alpes Pavilion
Not time to recover…
We arrived on Wednesday night in Shanghai, and had our first demo and lectures ...
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 | what about the schedule…
12/10 : departure to China, at the Universal exhibition of Shanghai 2010.
schedule :
training sessio...
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 | last competition before World championships in Korea:
This was the last preparation tournament since the international season started in 201...
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 | The organization was perfect, but we had to play while the weather temperature was set to “very high” (around 35 degrees in the sport venue…), and I h...
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 | The offical ranking list has been published yesterday.
I am still ranked ...
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 | 2nd international competition in 2010:
2nd tournament since the international season started in 2010.
The organization was perfect, and the...
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 | 1st international competition in 2010 :
1st tournament since the international season started in 2010.
The organisation was perfect, but th...
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 | This was the last international event in 2009: a tournament “factor 40”, which can be compared to a ‘grand slam’ tennis tournament.
I was highly moti...
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 | This second tour took place in Sete. The 20 best French wheelchair players were there, all classes mixed.
My goal was to stay in this elite national ...
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 | 1st international competition this season :
that was the 1st tournament since the European championships, which also took place in Italy (...
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 | Singles class 2 (my category) :
I had tough matches since the qualification group, up to the ½ final.
When I beat 16-14 at the last set...
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 | This was the last competition before the European championship in Genoa, Italy. Tournament conditions were excellent at this 3rd edition of the Romani...
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 | The French championships were in Angers for my class. There were 3 competitions:
In the ‘Open’ competition, class I and 2 united:
I play...
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 | We had an intensive training camp in Etival-Clairefontaine, right before the national competition scheduled in Raon l’Etape (in the same department : ...
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 | Jerome Humbert is the head coach for the French team. Almost every month, he organizes a training camp in his association, where we train hard in orde...
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 | The French ¨President Nicolas Sarkozy has honored the Paralympians and Olympians who won a medal during the last Games in Beijing.
Vince was decorate...
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 | A national competition was organized in the city of Argentan, in the sport association managed by Emeric Martin.
We have some national events during ...
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 | We were back to France at 6pm, and were invited at the “Elysee Palace” at 7pm by Nicolas Narkozy, French President.
While we had to rush into Paris...
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 | Today Vincent visited HP China's head office, met with employees and gave a short ping pong demonstration with Kouros and played against a few volunte...
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 | Karen, his wife, Pierre, his father and I are meeting Vincent at the Paralympic Village this morning.
The first step is to find a taxi driver who und...
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 | Kouros and I met up with Vincent, Stephane, Damien and Jean-Francois at the Beijing university gymnasium. Our athletes are in shape and motivated to t...
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 | Another day filled with emotion. France versus Austria. Hans Ruep will have an opportunity to get his revenge after losing to Vincent in the men’s sin...
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 | It’s 10 am and Kouros and I meet Vincent at the Beijing University Gymnasium. We’re getting used to this morning route, eyes closed. Vincent doesn’t s...
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 | | 12 Sept 2008 | Finals |  comments: 103 |
What a day… so rich in emotion. Last night Vincent slept well after having played and re-played today’s match in his head. This morning was a restful ...
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 | After yesterday’s strenuous day of interviews, meetings, autographing sessions, collaborating and thanking sponsors and the Paralympic Federation, Vin...
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 | september 11th, 5.20pm in Beijing or 11.20am in Amplepuis and Cornillon en Trièves: we play the final match!
Let's share this moment together...
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 | Semi-finals
We slept to the rhythm of the rain and awoke to a beautiful day. We left for the gymnasium at 9 am with all the rush hour traffic. The sk...
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 | Some of Vincent’s fans took advantage of the ‘day-off’ and went to the Great Wall although it was a rainy day without a view. Meanwhile, Vincent took ...
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 | Despite his false start, Vincent was able to fall asleep quickly last night but went on to have a restless night replaying the losing match in his dre...
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 | 1 :30 pm Last briefing with Kouros the coach on game tactics , and strong and weak points of his opponent.
3:30 pm Vincent goes to the warm-up hall...
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 | A day without seeing Vince as he had a relaxing time in the village being massaged and doing physiotherapy (“Eh! Karen’s not there but don’t take too ...
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 | It seems that there is something going on in Beijing at the moment for which our friend Vincent (trainee reporter) has been summoned, therefore he has...
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 | We had a chance today to go and train in the competition venue, located in the Beijing University.
The hall is amazing, and I was really impressed th...
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 | The French team got its first training session today, 3rd of September. Finally it was time to discover and test the “mysterious Chinese tables”, that...
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 | After an uneventful 10 hour flight, we landed in Peking.
So far so good: blue sky, nice weather, plenty of volunteers to welcome and help us, perm...
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 | We left the French Paralympic Committee very early in order to catch our flight. As a bonus, our buses were escorted by the Police, enabling us to cro...
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 | We stayed in Paris at the French Paralympic Committee for a couple of days awaiting athletes from all of the Olympic sports. As well as last minute ad...
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 | Is THE question of the month !
Departure, September 1st , and a few more important dates:
Until the 25th of August: training in Gre...
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 | We are supervised by the French anti-doping agency, as are all elite athletes, which can show up anytime, any place throughout the table tennis season...
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 | We spent more than 50% of our summer time in the city of Chartres, training hard twice a day.
Today, we start the last national training camp, before...
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 | After months and months of a full-on schedule preparing the Games, we organized a little weekend get together with friends at our house in the Trièves...
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 | In 2008, I am only playing in 2 tournaments in preparation for the Games. My objectives are to evaluate my opponents’ level of play and to test out th...
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 | Did it !
Once the international commission validated the qualifications so did the national commission and as of the 21st of June (happens t...
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 | In 2008, I will only have played in 2 tournaments before the Olympic Games. My objective is to evaluate the level of my foreign opponents and to test ...
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The French championships were in Gruissan for my class. There were 3 competitions, and after a month of training with my coach, Kouros, I whole hear...
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 | The offical ranking list has been published yesterday.
I am still ranked #1, which is a great motivation to prepare national and international events...
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 | As of the 1st of April, Ping pong becomes easy ; no, it’s not a joke, and it’s even a first in history for me!
As of April 1st, I have been c...
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 | It took place in Angers, where the 16 best French wheelchair players were participating, all classes mixed (1 to 5). My goal was to remain in this eli...
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 | The season is very busy with national training sessions at the 2 main camps :
1- St Die des Vosges:
This is Jerome Humbert’s home town, the French...
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 | This second tour took place in Cherbourg. The 16 best French wheelchair players were there, all classes mixed.
My goal was to stay in this elite nati...
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 | Happy New Year to you all ! The first day of the year is always an important one for pingpongers/haha! / table tennis players. The world ranking is fr...
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Vincent Boury is ranked #1 worldwide since April 2007
The 2008 olympics in Beijing will be an opportunity for our pingponger, Vince, to kick s...
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Sorry, You have not been updated often during the past 3 years. But the competition is still hard, and the road to Beijing 2008 is open.
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Ranked #2 at the World championships, 2006 (Montreux, Switzerland)
Gold medal, Tetra Open of Cologne (Germany, 2006)
Bronze medal, Paralympic Games in Sydney (Australia, 2000)