2024-02-29 17:30:02
Par Nicolas Mouchel
Published on Feb 29, 24 at 6:30 p.m. See my news Follow Le Pays d’Auge
A life of sport and investment for the community. At 80 years old, Cabourgeais Yves Trébutien can look back and see a busy life, crowned today by a role as Olympic torchbearer in a few months. ” I still can not believe it. But I gladly accept. It’s a great honor.”
The emotion is palpable in the words of this unconditional lover of sport, who devoted a large part of his life to it. And this, from a very young age, even if it meant forcing fate, “I saw my older brothers playing sports, I always cheated on my age to participate”, he indicates with still a touch of mischief in the eyes. “I was a strong child, I got involved in sports clubs without my parents’ permission, I played football, basketball and very quickly handball.”
Sport is life. Without sport, I am nothing.
Yves Trébutien
His passion and self-sacrifice led him to unexpected levels, “I was part of the last eleven-a-side handball team in Normandy” and even took him to the Kayak Canoe World Championships, in 1967, “I had ridden a club, there was a shortage of participants, I was sent there, even though I had nothing to do there” he still laughs regarding it today.
“I made my passion my life”
A true local figure, Yves Trébutien seems to have had several lives to combine all his functions, roles and responsibilities. Born in Caen, qualified as a PE teacher in 1964, he made a career in handball at the national level and was appointed manager and facilitator in 1969 at the Departmental Directorate of Youth and Sports in charge of promoting sport. “I was lucky enough to be a good athlete, I made my passion my life.”
In Cabourg, he revolutionized the approach to sport accessible to all, by creating numerous associations, some of which still exist: canoeing, field hockey, voluntary gymnastics, leisure volleyball, he is also at the origin of the Garden tennis school in 1975. In 1983, he exported his passion for sport to Oussouye in Senegal, where he participated in the creation of football, volleyball and handball infrastructures and in the training of executives and of players. He worked on the creation of a team walking race on the Marcel Proust promenade in 1993 and also marked the lives of schoolchildren by becoming a PE teacher at the Cabourg college in 1986, “he was one of the rare ones to offer 26 sporting activities in his teaching: pétanque, archery, canoeing, sand yachting, golf… » A whole generation of Cabourgeais was able to taste a sport in their training, “it’s my pride”.
“Unparalleled involvement”
It is for all these reasons that the Municipality chose him as the Olympic torchbearer. As Emmanuel Porcq, mayor of Cabourg, Yves Trébutien, explains, “it’s an impressive track record, an unrivaled involvement in the sporting and community life of the city. This is why the City of Cabourg sponsored you.”
Thierry Rey, former judo champion and Paris 2024 special advisor, confirms that the Cabourgeais has his place “among the 11,000 porters in France”.
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Our big idea is to have it carried by ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. You are the symbol of that, you are a trainer, a teacher, a lover of sport. We are proud to have you.
Thierry Rey
“We don’t know where he will carry the flame, but he has agreed to carry the colors of Cabourg elsewhere,” enthuses Emmanuel Porcq.
This role of Olympic flame bearer, an outcome for him? “It’s something extraordinary for me,” he explains, while qualifying, “the consecration, I had it with my students. I have never seen a student change sidewalks on Avenue de la Mer so as not to say hello to me. This is my consecration.”
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