Business falls as in Gravelotte on French sport.
Figure skating, horse riding, judo, tennis, handball… At the highest level, in recent years, their leaders have been making headlines one after the other.
Not to mention those of the National Olympic Committee, who are tearing themselves apart just a year and a half before the Paris Games.
But it's the two biggest federations that get all the attention.
At the end of an endless soap opera at the head of tricolor rugby, Bernard Laporte has just thrown in the towel.
Noël Le Graët, his football counterpart, should very soon imitate him.
Caught in the nets of troubled stories - corruption for the first, moral and sexual harassment for the second - the two men tried the impossible to cling to their functions.
Driven by an inextinguishable taste for power and honors, to the point of abusing them...
It's Mbappé, Dupont and their troops that we want to talk about
A whole era is coming to an end.
The one where federation or league bosses reigned over their sport, without any checks and balances...
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