The Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games speaks to CNN about her time at the National Education Department. “I knew that political life was tough and there I experienced it.

It’s obviously a significant period, but one from which I emerge seasoned and more determined than ever to serve French sport,” says Oudéa-Castéra. ‘We have both additional security and an ambition which is intact. With a gauge of more than 320,000 people, we remain at the recent low point,’ she adds.