For more than fifteen years, Philippe Candeloro has been vibrating to the sound of sports competitions broadcast on France Télévisions.

However, for some time now, the figure skater has been self-censoring.

This is what he said in an interview with our colleagues from

L'Equipe

on Friday.

“In the long run, it becomes drunk.

It's frustrating not being able to express ourselves the way we want to.

I am awaited at the turn by the “social plagues”.

But when I meet people in the street, they ask me why I don't tell sex jokes anymore, ”he argued.

Currently on the air to comment on the world figure skating championships being held in Montpellier, Philippe Candeloro suggests that he could move away from the microphones of France Télévisions.

"It's important to stay who I am, I don't want to sell my soul," he said.

We're going to end up being fucking robots.

I don't want to live that life.

If I can no longer be myself, I no longer have any reason to be on TV.

“The sportsman could then leave the small screen to go on stage and appear on the poster of a one-man-show.

A warning from the CSA in 2014

In 2014, Nelson Monfort and Philippe Candeloro found themselves in the sights of the CSA for comments deemed sexist by some viewers.

During the Winter Olympics in Sochi, the figure skater made a questionable remark about one of the sportswomen.

"I know more than one anaconda who would like to come and annoy this young Canadian Cleopatra a little bit," he said live on the air.

The audiovisual policeman then warned France Télévisions, considering that these remarks “were extremely inappropriate and that some of them were even likely to reflect sexist prejudices.

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