Romain Rouillard / Photo credit: DENIS CHARLET / AFP 08:00, September 02, 2023 To attend the Rugby World Cup in France, which he himself obtained the organization as former president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte will have to take out the checkbook. Guest of the show The Legends Studio, on Europe 1, Florian Grill, the…
Corentin Alloune / Photo credit: JOEL SAGET / AFP 10:41 p.m., June 15, 2023 Seven years after the election of Bernard Laporte as president of the French Rugby Federation, the body changed governance this Wednesday with the arrival of Florian Grill. The day after his election, the new boss of French rugby explains how he…
Axel May, edited by Alexandre Dalifard 06:19, March 30, 2023modified to 09:24, March 30, 2023 The general public knows him badly. And yet, he is the French cyclist in form at the start of the season. Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) has just won two Belgian classics in quick succession and is now presenting himself as a…
Frenchman Christophe Laporte of the Jumbo-Visma team, before the start of the 183.7-kilometre Across Flanders cycling race from Roeselare to Waregem (Belgium), March 29, 2023. DAVID PINTENS / AFP In Belgium, the period is known as “Holy Week”; these few days, from the end of March to the beginning of April, when Flanders hosts its…
Frenchman Christophe Laporte (right) and his leader at Jumbo-Visma, Belgian Wout van Aert at the finish of the Ghent-Wevelgem race, in Belgium, Sunday March 26. GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / AP Wout van Aert is a generous leader. The Belgian rider of the Jumbo-Visma team did not dispute the victory with his teammate Christophe Laporte at…
There will certainly be a president in the Imperial City. In Rome, on Sunday, Alexandre Martinez will take his place in the official stand of the Olympic Stadium to attend, in the costume of President of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), the first match of the XV of France, against Italy, in the Tournament of…
Axel May, edited by Gauthier Delomez 06:17, January 31, 2023modified to 3:53 p.m., January 31, 2023 The French rugby team is gathered in Capbreton to prepare for the Six Nations tournament. Trying to ignore the turmoil around the French Federation, the Blues seem to have trouble turning the page on Bernard Laporte, who resigned on…
By Gilles Festor Posted on 01/27/2023 at 2:34 p.m., Update on 01/27/2023 at 14:58 The National Rugby League regrets the decision to appoint an interim president until the General Assembly in June. Two of its members on the FFR Steering Committee will therefore resign. After the resignation of Bernard Laporte this Friday, the Steering Committee…
Published on 01/27/2023 at 11:02 Photo credit © Reuters (Technical rehearsal) PARIS (Reuters) – The president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), Bernard Laporte, will resign from his post, we learned on Friday from a source familiar…
The designation of Patrick Buisson, vice-president in charge of amateur rugby and replacement designated by Bernard Laporte at the head of the FFR, was rejected by a majority of amateur clubs. Ten days before the opening of the Six Nations Tournament and seven months from the 2023 World Cup in France (September 8-October 28), it…
Bernard Laporte, in Paris, on December 14, 2020. CHRISTOPHE ENA / AP The amateur rugby clubs will have made it bend, where neither the indictments, police custody or even a conviction – in the first instance – had not succeeded. According to information from World, Bernard Laporte decided to resign, Friday, January 27, from the…
Bernard Laporte, central figure of French rugby for more than 20 years, resigned Friday from the presidency of the federation (FFR), seven months before the World Cup which will take place in France. His departure was announced in the morning by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castera, to the media present in front of the…
