Nathalie Péchalat, symbol of a new era for figure skating

One voice, one way. On February 8, the epilogue of a soap opera that profoundly changed French sport, Didier Gailhaguet resigned from the presidency of the French Ice Sports Federation, ending two decades of reign over the little world of splashed French ice. by the scandal of sexual violence. Four days later, Nathalie Péchalat proposed to turn the page, to take up the challenge. His quest, that of reconstruction to restore confidence, credit, hoping to build future conquests. With the same ambition as that which, athlete, guided her when she left the comfort of Lyon to go and refine her technique in Russia or the United States.

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Brought to the presidency of the Federation of Ice Sports on Saturday, Nathalie Péchalat offers a new face to a world still in shock after the violence of recent revelations. During the general assembly of the FFSG, the only candidate in the running after the resignation

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