“You are very important in this fight!
» The head of the fight against the manipulation of sports competitions of the National Games Authority (ANJ), Corentin Segalen, left his offices of the betting police in France this Thursday, March 7 in the morning for the brand new Adidas Arena.
In front of him, in one of the lounges of the room in the north of Paris, inaugurated in February, around fifteen people listen to his presentation, in English.
All wear the same tracksuit, that of the referees of the French Open badminton championships, organized this week in the enclosure which will host the discipline at the Paris Olympic Games in five months.
They too will be back in the capital to direct matches at the Olympic or Paralympic Games, and that is precisely the reason for their presence before today's matches.
“You have to know how to recognize someone who approaches you to manipulate a match, obviously refuse, then report it,” Corentin Segalen explains to them.
The public's choice is not trivial.
If badminton attracts very few bettors in France, the stakes are much higher in Asia.
Which classifies it among the disciplines exposed – like other racket sports and team sports – to potential match-fixing to enrich bettors.
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