Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: 09:31, 08 January 2024

With 200 days to go before the Olympic Games, Emmanuel Macron called on X to do "at least 30 minutes" of sport "per day". The head of state also recalled that the executive wanted to make sport "a great national cause this year", especially in schools.

Emmanuel Macron on Monday called on the French to exercise "at least 30 minutes a day", in a short video published on the social network X 200 days before the start of the Olympic Games. Boxing gloves tied over his shoulder, in sports clothes and a punching bag in the background, the head of state improvises himself as a sports coach for the duration of his short message: "I invite you all to do at least 30 minutes of sport every day, I hope more if you can, but at least 30 minutes a day".

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"It's good for your health, it's good for a lot of things, it's also a way to have Games that will remain in our daily practices," he added, as the 2024 Olympics begin on 26 July, a major event in the middle of his second five-year term.

"Great national cause this year"

"It's 200 days away, it starts now," he said, recalling that the executive has made sport "a great national cause this year" and that physical activity has already been reinforced in schools, with "the 30 minutes of compulsory sport for all primary school" and "more sport in middle school".

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A kind of general mobilization that he would like to see consecrated "with a lot of French medals", but also more and more amateur athletes. According to the Élysée, the target of 3 million additional practitioners set in 2017 has now been reached and the ambition is now to double the stake by 2027.