A silver medal. And nothing more to get your teeth into. The meager results of the French team at the world championships in Budapest prompted the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, to summon the French Athletics Federation (FFA), this Tuesday, August 29, to the ministry. “We had a dense, intense, invigorating meeting, at random to debrief these worlds and identify together all the avenues of optimization that we can align to improve performance for the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” said indicated the minister at the end of this meeting, where the National Sports Agency (ANS) was also present.
Points will be made by “all the specialty managers then a cold debriefing with the various athletes” in view of a rally in Saint-Malo at the end of October, she said during an audio conference. There will also be a “stage in South Africa in early December […] both a training time and a bonding time,” she said.
For his part, the president of the FFA, André Giraud, assured that “there is no problem between the ANS and the federation”. “Never before have we put so much effort into enabling our athletes to succeed. “Everyone knows that there were tensions between the ANS and the FFA after Tokyo, this is no longer the case today,” added the minister. “We’re not going to, overnight, become a huge athletic nation that we’ve never been in the past,” she said.
