White and cream tracksuit with blue-white-red edging, gray cap screwed on the head, racket in hand, Yannick Noah, 63, strolls this Monday, February 12 in the morning among the players of the French Paralympic tennis team on the blue courts of the CNE (National Training Center), near Roland-Garros. Since the end of 2023, the man of a thousand lives has been the captain of the French men’s delegation for the Paris Games.
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“His arrival changed a lot of things, notably the spotlight given to our discipline,” smiles Jean-Philippe Fleurian, head of wheelchair tennis at the FFT. It’s important in terms of image, but it’s completely there for the results. I know that he will contribute a little, build up the group, give confidence to the players to get the best possible color of medal. You can’t have a better motivator than him. »
