Right in his boots. An hour after the press conference at which Roxana Maracineanu asked for his resignation, the president of the French Federation of ice sports Didier Gailhaguet counter-attacked. In summary, he has nothing to be ashamed of - or so little. This is not the case with the Ministry of Sports. "I made mistakes, but I didn't make any mistakes," he told the media after leaving the Sports Ministry, where he was summoned by Roxana Maracineanu.
“The Federation and its technical staff are not a bunch of sexual predators having rape as a culture. Personally, I skated, I trained, I directed, within this Federation, and I am a clean man, he continued. In the face of all this mess, the main culprits are those who let these abuses happen. I of course want to quote the ministry and the Minister of Sports at the time [Marie-Georges Buffet], who, by their cowardice, their incompetence and their numerous flip-flops, made it possible to leave people on the ice in sports at early maturity, therefore more exposed, when they should have been treated and put out of harm's way. "
Didier Gailhaguet: "I made mistakes, not mistakes" pic.twitter.com/K1DycfI85e
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) February 3, 2020Asked whether or not he intended to resign, Gailhaguet replied: "We are going to think about all this", referring to a press conference on Wednesday.
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