LE SCAN SPORT – The equipment supplier to the captain of the France team asked him to have 10,000 followers on the social network to renew his contract.
With Tokyo’s ledger now closed, all eyes are now on Paris, where the next Olympic Games will be held in 2024. In addition to the organizational challenge, there is the sporting challenge for a French delegation which will be expected at the turn at home after a very average in Japan (33 medals, the worst total since the Barcelona Games in 1992 (29), tied with Athens 2004). If team sports have shone in Japan, some strong individual disciplines in the past have not lived up to expectations, such as athletics and swimming, which have won only one medal each.
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Beyond individual talent, the means made available to these athletes to shine raise questions. In the program Les Grandes Gueules du Sport on RMC, former swimmer Sophie Kamoun is sounding the alarm. “We struggle. The success of team sports compared to individual sports may also be linked to the fact that these athletes (co-sports) have salaries in clubs. That they are not worrying about the next day, that they can prepare properly. In the worst off individual sports, it’s very complicated», Explained the image agent, before illustrating his point with an edifying example.
We replied: “We will renew your contract for another year when you have 10,000 followers on Instagram”
Sophie Kamoun
«Before the European Championships in May where she will finish 2nd (over 50m butterfly), Mélanie Henique, captain of the French swimming team, asked her equipment supplier to renew her contract which was ending for one year. at the end of 2020 so that she does not change her jersey three or four months before the Olympic Games because it is always complicated to change the equipment supplier for benchmarks. It’s a product endowment contract, just to have a few swimsuits, told on RMC Sophie Kamoun. He was told: “we will renew your contract for another year when you have 10,000 followers on Instagram ”.»
She was forced to borrow a swimsuit from Pernille Blum, Florent Manadou’s girlfriend.
Sophie Kamoun
«She was forced to borrow a swimsuit from Pernille Blum, Florent Manadou’s girlfriend. We are there. Many athletes struggle terribly financially, if only to prepare properly, to buy food supplements. A whole lot of things necessary for top-level sportThe former swimmer points. The story, which stirred up social media on Sunday, allowed Melanie Henique to cross the 10,000-subscriber mark on Instagram. But after the Olympics and his elimination in the semifinals of the 50 m freestyle. With another swimmer’s jersey.
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