Scandals in football and rugby federations, National Sport Agency cropped by the Court of Auditors, Paris 2024 caught up in inflation … While the next Olympic and Paralympic Games are starting to loom, the image of the instances French sport is seriously scored.
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Analysis. French sport is dangerously caught up in its route to the Olympic Games (OJ) in Paris in 2024. At the French Football Federation (FFF), the president, Noël Le Graët, does not reassure anyone. The sailors of the rugby ship (president of the Federation Bernard Laporte in the lead) are barely out of the court. At the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), the president, Brigitte Henriques, passed her secretary general, Didier Séminet, over board in mid-September. The National Sports Agency (years) is busy clogging the waterways highlighted by the Court of Auditors during the summer. As for the Organization Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 (COJOP), it has been facing for several months of winds aggravated by the inflationary context.
Let us take up one by one in the inventory of these various captain of French sport. A ridge institution of the sports movement, the CNOSF is crossed at its top by a crisis which it had never known in more than fifty years of existence and which divides the different federations it represents. FFF defector, Brigitte Henriques, first woman in history at the helm of the CNOSF, is accused of having imported authoritarian management methods applied within the “3F”.
In addition to an internal crisis, the CNOSF is experiencing an existential crisis. Who knows what is the institution of avenue Pierre-de-Coubertin, in Paris-apart from composing the Olympic delegations for? Responsible for both bringing the interests of the sports movement to the public authorities and representing the International Olympic Committee (CIO) on French soil, the CNOSF is struggling to assert itself, less than two years old, faced with the Years, at COJOP and the Ministry of Sports.
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The CAP is not clearer on the side of the year. After chaotic beginnings, “the agency”, which has been responsible since 2019 for the practice for all of sport and high level, has gradually imposed itself in the French ecosystem. Even if it means shaking up with old habits thanks to his high performance manager, Claude Onesta, the former successful coach of French handball. The report of the Court of Auditors, given on September 21 to deputies, sounds like a reminder to order.
The magistrates of rue Cambon invite in particular the years to “clarify” its missions, and the Ministry of Sports, which provides it with its entire budget (i.e. 431 million euros in 2023), to reaffirm its guardianship . A cropping that does not say its name of an operator from the ministry who was sometimes taken for the ministry.
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