"We once again considered sport as an adjustment variable"deplores a sports economist
“There is a budget problem, a debt problem, so we once again considered sport as an adjustment variable”deplores, in the franceinfo Club info, Sunday December 1, Pierre Rondeau, economist specializing in the field of sport, co-director of the Sports Observatory at the Jean Jaurès Foundation and co-author of the book The French and sport. Building a sporting nation, the French challenge published by Cherche midi.
Three months after the end of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this specialist has ““I don’t feel that the government has tackled the problem head-on and confirmed the sporting fervor of the Olympic Games.” France is not a “sporting nation”because sport is not “culturally and viscerally anchored”, believes Pierre Rondeau.
For the economist, a “sporting nation” is not “a nation that performs is a nation that will highlight the practice of sport on a daily basis, even within the company.” According to him, sport must be “respected as such, on the same level as culture or other particular leisure activities”.
On the other hand, for Pierre Rondeau, France is a “land of sportsbecause there are “performance” among high-level athletes, “mediatization” And “a popular craze”. “We are always of the idea that sport is very nice in front of the cameras, at least for political representatives, it is very nice to appear at the stadium with athletes”, he denounces. “But once we really have to make strong decisions for all French people, we can’t do it and we don’t do it”he adds.
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