“I would like to dedicate this victory to all the women, to all those who have inspired and supported me, so that they dare to apply and gain positions of responsibility. And to all the men who have carried me throughout my journey. When I wanted, at the age of 5, to join the club where my brothers were, I was told “no, we don't take women”, that's what rocked my commitment to the sport. I like to talk about diversity, like diversity, that's what makes us so rich. It is our differences that make us go further. ”
Elected Tuesday president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) in the first round with 57.87% of the vote and, moved, Brigitte Henriques quickly recalled the memory of the inauguration in the Maison du sport français, last March, of 'a statue of Alice Milliat, who worked at the beginning of the 20th century for women's access to sports and competition, in France and around the world.
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