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Presentation of the 2009 Senior World Championships

The city of Mâcon was entrusted with its organisation by the Fédération Internationale de Boules, via the Fédération Française du Sport-boules, with the Comité Bouliste de Saône et Loire's and the Comité de Bourgogne's agreement.
These championships take place every two-years. They occurred in Grude, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2007 and will occur in Italy in 2011.
The City of Mâcon, who wished to organise this big event, is a city that favours sports and competition. Earning the title of most athletic city in 2001, it regularly hosts great sports events: the Tour de France in 2002 and 2006 ; the european labelled Rallye des Vins in 2008 ; an ATP tennis tournament in 2007 ; an international under-17 soccer match opposing France to Netherlands ; the fifth Jeux de Saône-et-Loire, a local replica of the Olympic Games that gathered 4, 000 young people in 37 sports ; a pétanque tournament in 2008 ; the National in “four” championships in 2001 and 2007, and the National Sports Clubs Championships in 2006.
The Entente Sportive Bouliste du Mâconnais is used to this kind of challenge and will know how to take it up thanks to its dynamism.
It will rely on the skills in organisation of the City of Mâcon to manage these world championships. The competition will take place at the “Parc des Expositions”, which will be widely opened for the promotion of Boules Sports. Two exhibition halls will be fitted out with 16 playing areas and 2, 500 stand seats. During the seven-day competition, and in order to make players, managers and members of the audience feel like coming back to our region, they will be welcomed by a 500 m² marquee dedicated to the presentation of the Mâcon area, with local authorities and partners taking part. An artistic space will be available, with an exhibition of sculptures, paintings and pictures. A variety of regional products will also be presented to account for the wealth of our land.
These world championships are for the City of Mâcon and the Entente Sportive Bouliste du Mâconnais an important stake and will provide advantages on sports, economic, social and cultural levels