Sports journalist Yoann Riou, known for his energetic match comments, was Anne Roumanoff's guest on the show "It feels good" on Tuesday.

Asked about the place of women in sports journalist, he paid tribute to his colleagues who spoke out against sexism.

INTERVIEW

"It's incredible that we are in 2021 and that we are only starting to put women in the commentary on matches!"

Yoann Riou, emblematic sports commentator of La Chaîne L'Équipe, is surprised on Tuesday in 

It's good

for the still minor place given to women in sports journalism.

He also pays tribute to his sisters, and in particular to those who denounced the sexism of this milieu in Marie Portolano's documentary 

I am not a slut, I am a journalist.

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A documentary that Yoann Riou describes as "extraordinary" and "fantastic".

While he still hears that women cannot comment on football matches, the journalist is on the contrary delighted with the presence of his sisters on the air.

"Every Wednesday, I am accompanied by Candice Rolland, who is a great football presenter," he recalls.

"Not at the microphone because they are women"

“At La Chaîne L'Equipe, we have Anne-Sophie Bernadi commenting on the channel's main sport, biathlon. There is Claire Bricogne commenting on cycling,” he lists.

"They are fantastic women, extraordinary journalists. And they are not at the microphone because they are women: they are journalists."

Yoann Riou also quotes Marianne Mako, who commented on football in the 1980s and joined the

Téléfoot

show team 

in 1987. "She really wiped out the plaster," he recalls.

"But there will be more and more women sports journalists, and that's good!"

For the journalist, the movement towards parity in sports journalism must now accelerate.

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"It's really very important because these women deserve it, because they also dedicate their lives to that. They deserve to have the microphone and to have the antenna", he supports, before evoke once again the sexism pointed out in Marie Portolano's documentary.

"I hope that this fight will continue. They deserve the word. They deserve that the word is released. And yes, this environment is violent."