Between 35 and 42 medals in Tokyo, this is the bet of the high performance manager at the National Sport Agency, Claude Onesta, for France at the 2020 Olympic Games. Translation: the former coach of the team of France handball sees no progress compared to the Rio Olympics. Worse, he notes a "general weakening" of the level of France at the Olympic Games. “We are on a downward curve. The competition is working better than before. A medal to win today is more complicated, more expensive than 10 or 15 years ago. If we do not transform our organization, we will suffer more from this improved competition, ”he argued.
Created in April 2019, the ANS aims to embody a new model and the ambitions of France at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. It is notably within this agency, and no longer at the ministry, that the amounts of subsidies to federations for the high level. The ANS advances for 2020 the figures of 60.2 million euros in support to federations (down one million compared to 2019) and 11.8 million euros in personalized aid.
500 long-term medalists
Onesta called for "transformations" in the French sports model. “These transformations couldn't happen just before the Tokyo Games. We tried not to shake up the system, but rather to identify actions to help athletes prepare in the best conditions and give them the tools to perform, "he added, indicating that the ANS had identified around 500 more or less long-term "medal-winning" athletes who could be helped (budget for supervision, search for a professional contract to generate income, etc.).
“The day after Tokyo, we will embark on the adventure of Paris-2024, so we will implement the transformations. We are going to renovate the French sports model in the coming months […] Today, the best athletes are looking less and less at living the experience of others. They isolate themselves, set up their personal cell, "he said.
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