Even if he could not keep his individual Olympic title in Tokyo (bronze medal but gold won by teams), Teddy Riner remains the darling of the French among athletes.
The judoka is in 8th place in the annual ranking of the favorite personalities of the French, like last year.
A rank which allows him to be the only athlete present in the Top 10 dominated by the irremovable Jean-Jacques Goldman preceding the astronaut Thomas Pesquet and the actor Omar Sy.
Behind, Riner, you have to go down 9 ranks to find the trace of another champion who is no longer active.
Zinédine Zidane, currently without a club since leaving Real Madrid, ranks 17th.
"Zizou", who lost five places, ahead of Kylian Mbappé (19th) while his friend in the Blues, Antoine Griezmann is invited to the 25th place.
No athlete among the 25 female personalities
Tricolor female athletes are less successful with the French.
None managed to find a place among the 25 favorite personalities of the population.
The survey was carried out by Ifop for the JDD from December 7 to 10 with a sample of 1,000 people representative of the French population aged 15 and over.
100 personalities were proposed to the people surveyed divided into two parts of 50 names, one male and the other female.
