A woman to take the head of the French Federation of Ice Sports (FFSG)? Nathalie Péchalat is running for the presidency of the institution, shaken by a scandal of sexual violence and the recent resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, said the former skater, Wednesday, February 12, confirming information from L'Équipe. The election will take place on March 14.

Double European ice dance champion (2011, 2012), she retired from sport in 2014.

Committed to sexual violence in sport

Committed to the prevention association against sexual violence in sport Colossus with clay feet, Nathalie Péchalat, 36, is also licensed at the Paris club of flying Frenchmen. A club hit hard by the scandal: one of its leaders, Gilles Beyer, was accused of rape, thirty years after the facts, by the former skater Sarah Abitbol.

Other former skaters later exposed the abuse they had suffered from other coaches.

On Saturday, the president of the FFSG, Didier Gailhaguet, resigned, as demanded by the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, five days earlier. She criticized him for having allowed Gilles Beyer to continue his career with the flying French and the federation, which Gailhaguet defended himself from.

With AFP

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