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Guy Drut: “Sport is an element of education”

2022-01-21T14:50:20.323Z


INTERVIEW – The Olympic champion of the Montreal Olympics in 1976 revisits sixty years of sport in a collection of photos and dreams of seeing France become a sporting nation.


“An elongated decaf.”

On the terrace -

"to smoke a cigarette" -

on the market place of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Guy Drut leafs through sixty years of sport.

In black and white and in color.

From Wilma Rudolph to Teddy Riner, from Florence Arthaud to Estelle Mossely.

The former Minister of Youth and Sports from 1995 to 1997, member of the International Olympic Committee and of the Board of Directors of Paris 2024, invited politicians, writers, journalists or artists to take up the pen to share in

Unforgettable Champions

(Le Cherche midi), their memories, their emotions.

LE FIGARO.

- How did the idea for this book come about?

Guy DRUUT.

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I had, for a long time, wanted to have iconic sports photos commented on by personalities: Jacques Chirac, Jacques Delors, Antoine Blondin, Michel Serres... to have other views on the sporting fact, but I never publisher found.

Two years ago, I spoke to journalists Patrick Mahé and Dominique Grimault about it, who found…

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Source: lefigaro

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