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11:46 p.m., January 17, 2022
As soon as the Djokovic affair is over, France dots the i’s. The Minister Delegate in charge of Sports Roxana Maracineanu indicated that with the upcoming entry into force of the vaccination pass, spectators and professional sportsmen will have to be vaccinated in order to be able to enter sports facilities.
In France too, athletes will have to be vaccinated to be able to play. While the Australian government has decided to expel the world number one in tennis, Novak Djokovic, who has not been vaccinated against Covid-19, the Minister Delegate for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, indicated that with the implementation of the pass vaccinated, it will be compulsory for spectators, and also for professional players, to be vaccinated to enter a stadium or a hall. A reversal of the minister, who had however hinted at the start of the Djokovic affair that a strict health protocol would allow the Serb to participate in Roland-Garros without having received the slightest injection.
The vaccination pass has been adopted. As soon as the law is promulgated, it will become mandatory to enter public buildings already subject to the health pass (stadium, theater or lounge) for all spectators, practitioners, French or foreign professionals 1/2
— Roxana Maracineanu (@RoxaMaracineanu) January 16, 2022
Any athlete, whether foreign or not, must be vaccinated to play in France
The definitive adoption of the vaccination pass, whose entry into force is scheduled around January 20, has changed government communication. From now on, any athlete, foreign or not, who competes in France, must be vaccinated against Covid. So, even if by Roland-Garros at the end of May, the rule can be softened, other competitions should not escape the vaccine pass like the Six Nations rugby tournament which begins the weekend of February 6 , with the France-Italy match.
Moreover, the vice-president of the French Rugby Federation, Serge Simon, participated Monday afternoon in a meeting on the subject with the organizers of the Six Nations tournament. “I confirmed to them that the vaccination pass was going to replace the health pass”, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. “Indeed, all the players who will come to play in stadiums in France will have to be provided with a vaccination pass valid”, assures the vice-president of the Federation.
The measure must also make Didier Descamps think. At the beginning of January, the coach of the French football team declared that not all footballers were vaccinated, or not completely.