21 May 2003 - Lyon, France: Laureus World Sports Academy members attending the French project, Sport Dans La Ville, after the Laureus World Sports Awards. Academy members attending included Edwin Moses, Nawal El Moutawakel, Ilie Nastase, Alberto Tomba (centre), Nadia Comaneci, Morne du Plessis, Hugo Porta, and also French legend Abdel Benazzi. Sport dans la Ville was founded in March 1998 in Frances 2nd City, Lyon, with a goal of creating a structured and effective sports activities programme that can be used as a tool to help underprivileged children living in tough neighborhoods, with 9 centres across the Lyon region Sport dans la Ville is able to help 575 children (450 boys and 125 girls). The project operates with 7 full time staff, 25 part time trainers and educators and 8 voluntary executive board members. Photo by Laureus via Getty Images
