"It's catastrophic, we just lost 4 million licensees in the clubs.
"If Kevin Mayer, the world record holder in the decathlon and leader of French athletics with Renaud Lavillenie, admits that the situation of sport in France in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic worries him, he adds:" I have the impression that confinement was a source of awakening to the fact that movement was necessary for well-being.
On the one hand, we therefore have fewer licensees, but on the other hand, I have the impression that people are taking more responsibility for moving.
In the long run, this can be problematic because people will not be moving around on their own all the time in their homes.
Of course, an association, a structure, a schedule, a trainer can help people much more regularly.
But the nature of nature is to adapt to its environment, I think we will have to show our capacity to adapt to the situation, find solutions to continue to move.
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Worried but optimistic
Discovering and practicing leisure sport, living and sharing the high level, Kevin Mayer hopes that in France, in clubs and federations, sport will continue to be at the heart of the priorities.
For questions of public health, emulation and inspiration.
The athlete does not want to forget, as he recalls in a book that has just come out My 10 Commandments (Solar-L'Équipe Publishing): “I owe sport for having made the man I am.
"And to ensure, faced with the questions that parents may ask themselves when registering their children or accompanying them in judo, football or athletics clubs:" We must find the solution so that the practice is still feasible without worrying parents, structures, town halls.
We must not say to ourselves “this will pass”, we must say to ourselves “this is the situation in which we are, we must find solutions to move forward and face this situation”.
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“We will have to invest in getting things done and not gently wait for the disease to pass. It will last a long time, we have to find a new system. "
Kevin Mayer On the subject of the reopening of sports halls, he assures, like Zinedine Zidane and the signatories of a forum in the JDD: “As a sportsman, I would like the halls to reopen.
This Covid is very complicated.
I look a lot at mortality curves, virus transmission… I would not like to be the government when it comes to making decisions.
I am worried but optimistic.
As athletes, as coaches, we will have to realize that we are precursors, that we will have to invest in getting things done and not wait very nicely for the disease to pass.
It will last a long time, we have to find a new system.
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And in the short and longer term, the one who is preparing for the Tokyo Olympics (July 23 to August 8, 2021) slips about the high level: “Sport is the bearer of values, we must continue to be able to express ourselves through sport.
Of course, it's better to live it live in the stadium but if it has to take place behind closed doors, with all the means of broadcasting that we have today, we can live the moment.
I watched the NBA Finals and rocked.
We may even live closer to the athletes than when we are in an enclosure.
We must continue to organize major events, even if the public can no longer enter the stadiums… ”
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