Marie-Reine Le Gougne, new candidate for the succession of Didier Gailhaguet. - JEAN-PIERRE MULLER / AFP

New twist in the world of ice sports. While she was denied the right to stand for election to the presidency of the FFSG, following the resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, Marie-Reine Le Gougne finally learned on Tuesday that her candidacy had been validated late.

Deprived of election since, according to the statutes of the FFSG, this one did not have the seniority of two years of license necessary to appear, the former international arbitrator had warned that it would not stop there . "I am announcing to you that I will not let it go," she had announced to L'Equipe . I got in touch with my lawyer. Didier Gailhaguet has resigned but his zealous supporters are still at the head of the Federation. I don't see why prevent my candidacy, I think I scare them a little. "

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An appeal to the CNOSF

"I have been laid off since 1966," she justified herself. Since 2012, I have been licensed at the Paris Olympique Club. But in 2018, the president, Michel-Ange Marie-Calixte, announced to me that Didier Gailhaguet had refused the affiliation of his club. He won his case in the CNOSF conciliation commission, but I lost a year of license. It is not my fault. "

Marie-Reine Le Gougne had filed an appeal with the CNOSF conciliation commission, which appeal was to be examined on Wednesday. Except that in the meantime the French Federation of ice sports has finally decided not to wait before validating the candidacy of the former president of the Alsace League.

"The documents that have been produced show that Ms. Le Gougne requested and paid for a license," explains Guy Paris, the FFSG lawyer to our colleagues at L'Equipe on Tuesday. The fact that she did not have it was linked to a manifest dysfunction. It was normal that we should not deprive her of the opportunity to present herself. There will therefore be five who can hope to take over from Didier Gailhaguet on April 14.

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