Sport is everywhere. Educational tool, factor of integration, diplomatic lever, good for health, useful for productivity… there is no lack of virtues for the whole population, whatever its age. And yet, none of the candidates for the French presidential election made this cross-cutting subject a priority.
There are a few measures announced here and there, but two and a half years before the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the sports movement was probably hoping for a little more. “We can consider that sport is not treated as it should,” laments André Giraud, president of the French Athletics Federation.
Guy Drut: “We are not a sporting nation”
“The candidates do not know sport and how it works in our country… While everyone agrees that sport carries social and educational values, especially among young people, in a complicated period, that it can play a role in the politics of the city, the…