The Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, returned Monday on the management of the coronavirus crisis in French sport while referring to the resumption of the Bundesliga in Germany, which she regrets the economic motivations.
Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, “it was important for me to give primacy to the health aspect and the psychological well-being of athletes over economic considerations which, indeed, in other countries, have taken precedence ", Regretted the Minister of Sports, visiting the Insep for the return of certain athletes to the high performance institute.
If the Ligue 1 football season was stopped definitively in France, crowning the PSG champion, the Bundesliga resumed on Saturday, without public but with strict health protocols.
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"Each country has been affected in a different way" by the Covid-19, recalls Ms. Maracineanu, who also points to the federal system in place in Germany, where it is "the regions that make their own decisions, whether for the reopening of school or resumption of sport ”.
If "the stakes are not the same in Germany and in France", the minister questioned "the notion of fairness" in the event of resumption of European competitions, in the first place the Champions League, where PSG and Lyon are still in the running.
"It is true that this notion of fairness is at stake, there are some who have made the choice to resume their championships, because, no doubt, and I know it for having discussed it with my counterparts from major European countries football was about economic issues, "she said.
"I think that in the period we are living in, a decision which was guided by concern for health and the health aspect cannot be called into question," she added, stressing " all the measures announced for sport [which] apply to the smallest of associations […] as well as to professional sport ”in France.
The break "could have been more beneficial"
The judgment of Ligue 1 has provoked an outcry among some football players, with in the front line the Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas, who has filed two appeals before the administrative court concerning the early cessation of the championship.
The break imposed by the coronavirus crisis "could have been more beneficial" for professional sport, said the minister, according to whom "we could have taken advantage of this moment to ask other questions than simply" is am I 1st, 2nd, 3rd? " "
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