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Coronavirus: how the Amaury group copes with a summer without sport

4/24/2020, 4:46:13 PM


Feeding the daily, the site and the L'Équipe channel when there is no longer any competition is a challenge.

The year 2020 promises to be auspicious with the good progress of PSG in the Champion's League, a disputed L1 French Championship, a Euro football where the French Team was the favorite, the Tokyo Olympics and a Tour de France favorable to French runners. Alas, the appearance of the Covid-19 brought a halt to all sports competitions around the world. And this, until, at least, the end of summer. For the L'Équipe group - which publishes a daily newspaper, a site and a DTT channel entirely dedicated to sports news - managing the news turns into a real headache.

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“The editorial team, like all the collaborators, quickly adapted. We continued to follow the news of the postponements of sports competitions and, thanks to their address books, the journalists were able to talk to the greatest sportsmen about their lives during the confinement. All the journalists have shown great imagination, which has always been the added value of L'Équipe, ”said Marie-Odile Amaury,

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