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After hitting rock bottom, how can French judo bounce back?

2021-02-03T21:13:36.786Z


INVESTIGATION - Disastrous finances, fall in the number of dismissed workers, fight against sexual violence ... Stéphane Nomis, the new president of the French Federation, has a colossal project ahead of him.


On November 22, a page turned to the head of hexagonal judo.

After 15 years of reign, Jean-Luc Rougé ended up passing the hand, defeated in the elections by Stéphane Nomis, a former high-level judoka who became a successful entrepreneur.

A transfer of power which revealed in broad daylight the catastrophic management of a financially strapped Federation (FFJDA), both because of damaging strategic errors and questionable practices, to put it mildly.

As revealed a few weeks ago by the daily

L'Équipe

, two provisional reports from the Court of Auditors and the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) indeed state that

“ insincere accounts ”

,

“ misappropriated subsidies ”

.

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What seriously cool the new president, who will not have had the right to his "100 days" of grace.

On the contrary, as he explained, without regret and with determination, to

Le Figaro

 :

“I have set foot in something

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Source: lefigaro

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