On the occasion of the presentation, this Tuesday, of the strategic axes of the National Sports Agency for 2024, Claude Onesta, high performance general manager of the GIP, drew up the “
mixed results of the Tokyo Games (33 medals , including 10 gold).
The figures are considered disappointing in the light of the estimates.
The result was saved by the full and complete success of team sports.
Co-sports are the ones that have gotten through the pandemic period the best, have continued to work, have had competitions, have remained in a stronger dynamic with the advantage of being in an environment of permanent evaluation.
They have developed this approach of knowing how to win.
We have to see how to transform this ability to win to individual sports coaches.
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And to project towards Paris 2024 with ambition by targeting “
the Top 5. The Top 5 in Tokyo was high, and even very high: the Russians with 71 medals, including 20 gold.
It's high but we're not scared, so we'll aim for the target.
Just because you're aiming for the target doesn't mean you hit the heart every time.
The ideal is not to make a prognosis
(in 2017, Laura Flessel, then Minister of Sports had launched the objective of 80 medals)
but that each athlete be able to perform the best in Paris, to do better. that France has never done during the Games.
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Three years is very short ...
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Claude Onesta
Claude Onesta then rolled out the action plan with the creation of a “
Perf 2024
” unit within each federation, to work in close collaboration with the Agency. “
Three years is very short. The margin for improvement is relatively small. We don't play the lottery, we try to optimize. There are federations which can no longer be autonomous. We must help them.
"With in mind a particular care given to the technical supervision with bonuses for the coaches, in order to avoid the brain drain and accelerate the return of the best French coaches left abroad ("
these experts, it is our wealth is a loss and they then accompany those who take medals
”, underlines Onesta).
Movements and a will accompanied by the recruitment of recognized foreign technicians: volleyball has engaged the Brazilian legend Bernardo Rezende, swimming has recruited the Dutchman Jacco Verhaeren, former coach of the Australian team, rowing has registered the arrival of the German Jürgen Grobler, who contributed to the success of British rowing. “
All we want is to match the investment of the athletes and coaches. It's up to us to be up to the task,
”summed up Roxana Maracineanu, Minister of Sports. "
Create the conditions
", promises Claude Onesta who recognizes the magnitude of the challenge "
three years is very short ...
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