Since sport is the Esperanto of nations, as Jean Giraudoux said, the world has lost its universal language. The aptly named Covid-19 has created a vacuum. No more competitions or exploits. No more cheering crowds or victories to celebrate. At the time of the mask, the champions are gagged, confined to their changing rooms. All over the planet, sport is out of the game. White dry season, waiting for better days. Already, some imagine the aftermath: what if the virus had the skin of all the drifts of modern times? Money, doping, excess starization, corruption ... The dream is always allowed.
If sport feeds on the talent of its athletes, it has long been an industry. In the same way as the automobile, the food industry or high technology. It is a market of some 1,000 billion euros. Over the past twenty years, its annual growth rate has been more than twice that of world GDP. Power is held by merchants
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