Dimitri Payet, Jackson Richardson but also Tony Parker, Marie-José Pérec, Laure Manaudou… Fifty sportsmen call to block the far right, as the second round of the presidential election between Emmanuel Macron approaches and Marine Le Pen.
In a column published by Franceinfo with Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France, Tuesday April 12, around fifty French sportsmen and sportswomen “from all walks of life and all disciplines“believe that “voting for a party that endangers Republican values would be the worst remedy.”
Reunionese Dimitri Payet and Jackson Richardson are among the signatories of this forum. They call to “stop the far right” by voting for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the 2022 presidential election.
“I declare open the Paris Games celebrating the 33rd Olympiad of the modern era.” It is with these words that it will be up to the next Head of State to officially open the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This Friday, July 26, 2024, at the end of a historic opening ceremony on the Seine, Among dozens of Heads of State, in front of athletes from around the world and billions of television viewers, whoever will be elected on April 24 will embody the country in the eyes of the world. A few weeks later, he or she will also open the Paralympic Games.
We, French sportsmen and women from all walks of life and all disciplines, cannot imagine that this historic moment is marked with the seal of a far-right presidency.
If we are fully aware of the difficulties that many French people are going through, we are convinced that voting for a party that would endanger republican values would be the worst remedy. The sport in which we believe, that of the values of Olympism, is made of friendship and respect; it is the place of diversity. He rejects all discrimination.
Everywhere on the territory, in our cities, our suburbs and our countryside, sport is a powerful remedy for exclusion. In these uncertain times, it is a rallying point. This is the case when a whole nation remembers that it is ONE by vibrating in unison behind the exploits of its athletes.
It is because we believe in this sport, fraternal and inclusive, that we are committed to preventing our nation from placing at its head a president who embodies the very opposite, the stigmatization of the other, the withdrawal into oneself, nationalism. And that we therefore call for a vote for Emmanuel Macron on April 24.
Clarisse Agbégnénou, judo, Samir Aït Saïd, artistic gymnastics, Valériane Ayayi Vukosavljević, basketball, Brahim Asloum, boxing, Romain Bardet, cycling, Cécilia Berder, fencing, Alain Bernard, swimming, Marie Bochet, disabled skiing, Laure Boulleau, football, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, biathlete, Romain Cannone, fencing, Souleymane Cissokho, boxing, Elodie Clouvel, modern pentathlon, Cléopâtre Darleux, handball Isabelle Demongeot, tennis, Stéphane Diagana, athletics, Boris Diaw, basketball, Céline Dumerc, basketball, Allison Pineau, handball , Antoine Dupont, rugby, Gévrise Emane, judo, Maud Fontenoy, sailing, Pierre Gasly, motorsport, Edgar Grospiron, freestyle skiing, Amandine Henry, football, Stéphane Houdet, wheelchair tennis, Muriel Hurtis, athletics, Michaël Jeremiasz, wheelchair tennis, Nikola Karabatic, handball, Raphaël Ibañez, rugby, Jean Le Cam, sailing, Eugénie Le Sommer, football, Christophe Lemaître, athletics, Laure Manaudou, swimming, Blaise Matuidi, football, Frédéric Michalak, rugby, Estelle Mossely, boxing, Earvin Ngapeth, volleyball, Valérie Nicolas, handball, Yannick Noah, tennis, Sarah Ourahmoune, boxing, Jean-Pierre Papin, football, Tony Parker, basketball, Dimitri Payet, football, Marie-José Pérec, athletics, Thibaut Pinot, cycling, Jackson Richardson, handball, Charles Rozoy, disabled swimming, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, tennis, Jessy Trémoulière, rugby, Cameron Woki, rugby, Tony Yoka, boxing.