Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, and Roxana Maracineanu, Minister Delegate for Sports, visited INSEP residents this Friday morning. A morning punctuated by speeches and exchanges with athletes and educators, as well as some small physical exercises for the Minister.
They wanted to come to INSEP to show their support for the athletes who will represent France this summer at the Tokyo Olympics (July 23-August 8). And then also, and above all, for those that will take place in Paris in 2024. Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, and Roxana Maracineanu, Minister Delegate for Sports, visited this Friday morning to the athletes who are preparing in the facilities located in the Bois de Vincennes, in Paris, and who are in full doubt.
After being closed for a few months last year due to a health crisis, French athletes had to give up on the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2020, postponed for a year. A situation experienced more or less well by the residents of the INSEP, who have since raised their heads, fully focused on their new objectives, even if the concern to see the Games canceled again still hovers. It was therefore necessary to intervene.
“I anticipated the question by telling them that I had met Thomas Bach (IOC President) last week. He told me straight in my eyes that he was actively working with the Japanese authorities, who are motivated. is confident. He assured me that the Games would go well, “said Roxana Maracineanu, Minister for Sports.
This health crisis, the Minister wanted to make it positive if possible, with why not new perspectives for French athletes. “The cards are reshuffled for everyone. You have to seize your chance, you have to be opportunistic. A fourth place is the opportunity or never to turn it into a gold medal. The conditions were difficult for everyone. world, including for the best. There is no better position to win than to be a challenger, “said Roxana Maracineanu, who nevertheless preferred to remain discreet about the goal of the number of medals.
Blanking in the skin of a future medalist
But the Olympic Games are still a long way off, which gives future French medalists time to train. Like the French gymnasts, who were entitled to a visit from Jean-Michel Blanquer. The Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports, very attentive to the well-being of INSEP residents, lingered on their current and post-baccalaureate school career.
He also willingly took part in the game of physical exercises, as when fencer Ysaora Thibus invited him to try the Fitlight, a light training system for cognitive tests. Once the coat fell, and after a first gesture a little awkward, Jean-Michel Blanquer had fun.
The visit continued at the Dojo, where Clarisse Agbegnenou interrupted her training for a long exchange with the ministers. The judokate with the most beautiful French female prize list had the pleasure of giving one of her kimonos to Jean-Michel Blanquer, touched by the intention.
No ippon for our policies, but some rights and hooks for Jean-Michel Blanquer, once arrived in the boxing hall. Having come to meet the hopes of boxing, he could not resist a few blows in a punching bag.
Jean-Michel Blanquer, who had already come to INSEP when he was rector of the academy of Créteil, wanted to testify to the good team spirit that reigned there. “It is very beautiful to see”, underlined the minister, who is pleased with the attitude of the residents of the INSEP: “It is a good example not only of resilience but also of mental preparation for sporting success. And the sport, on this subject as on others, shows the way of the attitude which it is necessary to have in the current circumstances for our country. That is to say at the same time to resist the difficulty, and it There are difficulties, and at the same time to draw a burst of motivation “. A valuable motivation, while waiting for the practice of sport to be again open to all.
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