Olympic Games: IOC boss worried about French results three years from Paris 2024

At the end of the Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed his "

concern

" with regard to the disappointing results of the Blues three years from the Paris Olympics, according to comments reported in an internal document of the Agency National Sports Committee (ANS) consulted by AFP.

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France finished 8th in the medal table of the Tokyo Olympics with 33 awards, far enough from the goal of 40 medals, a disappointing record, less good than in Rio four years earlier where it had finished 7th with 42 medals.

During the reception of the medal-winning sportsmen from Tokyo at the Elysee Palace on September 13, Emmanuel Macron did not spare his audience by urging the sportsmen to “

do much more

” for the next Olympics in Paris in 2024.

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"The results are not quite what we expected", had launched Emmanuel Macron going so far as to set the goal of joining the world top 5, "

the success of the Games will be the success of our athletes because it works like that

”.

Obviously, this point of view is shared by the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, who took the liberty of discussing it in Tokyo with the French delegation.

"

In Tokyo, Thomas Bach expressed the concern of the IOC regarding the results of the French delegation in the perspective of Paris

", we can read in preparatory documents for the board of directors of the ANS which is to be held. hold Thursday.

"

He affirms that the Games are successful when the athletes of the host country achieve great performances,

" the text continues.

Tuesday, the manager of the high performance of the ANS, Claude Onesta, presented measures which must, according to him, make it possible to meet the objective set by the President of the Republic.