With the Tokyo ledger now closed, all eyes are now on Paris, where the next Olympic Games will be held in 2024. In addition to the organizational challenge, there is the sporting challenge for a French delegation which will be expected at the turn at home after a very average in Japan (33 medals, the worst total since the 1992 Games).
If team sports shone in Tokyo, some strong individual disciplines in the past have not lived up to expectations, such as athletics and swimming, which have brought back only one medal each.
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Beyond individual talent, the means made available to these athletes to shine raise questions.
In the program Les Grandes Gueules du Sport on RMC, former swimmer Sophie Kamoun is sounding the alarm.
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We're struggling.
The success of team sports compared to individual sports is perhaps also linked to the fact that these athletes (co-sports) have salaries in the clubs.
That they are not worrying about the next day, that they can prepare properly.
In the worst off individual sports, it's very complicated,
”explained the image agent, before illustrating his point with an edifying example.
We replied: "We will renew your contract for another year when you have 10,000 followers on Instagram"
Sophie kamoun
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Just before the European Championships in May where she will finish 2nd (on 50m butterfly), Mélanie Henique, captain of the France swimming team, asked her equipment supplier to renew her contract for one year. ended at the end of 2020 so that she does not change jersey three or four months before the Olympics because it is always complicated to change equipment for reference reasons.
It's a product endowment contract, just to have a few swimsuits,
Sophie Kamoun told RMC
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We replied: "
We will renew your contract for another year when you have 10,000 followers on Instagram"
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She was forced to borrow a swimsuit from Pernille Blum, Florent Manadou's girlfriend.
Sophie kamoun
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She was forced to borrow a swimsuit from Pernille Blum, Florent Manadou's girlfriend.
We are there.
Many athletes struggle terribly financially, if only to prepare properly, to buy food supplements.
A whole lot of things necessary for top-level sport
, ”points out the former swimmer.
The story, which stirred up social networks on Sunday, allowed Mélanie Henique to cross the threshold of 10,000 subscribers on Instagram.
But after the Olympics and his elimination in the semi-finals of the 50 m freestyle.
With the jersey of another swimmer.