Patrick Montel will leave France Télévisions

Patrick Montel, during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. -

It is not yet official, but according to the latest news from

, Patrick Montel, the voice of athletics for nearly thirty years on France Televisions will leave the group on Sunday.

He will say goodbye on the stage of

.

For the occasion, "six minutes will be devoted to the journalist with a retro subject on his career and speaking time on the set," announced Tuesday our colleagues from

, who said that this departure seemed inevitable.

Indeed, the commentator had been sidelined - and replaced by Alexandre Pasteur during the World Athletics Championships in Doha - after having publicly expressed on Facebook his support for the marathoner Clémence Calvin, then in full bickering with the anti-doping authorities for to have evaded a routine check.

More generally, it is his position on the issue of doping in athletics that disturbed the leaders of the television group.

Too nice thank you very much https://t.co/m2qaGYUbzr

- Patrick Montel (@LaProlon) November 3, 2020

If Patrick Montel has not yet officially expressed himself on his departure, he began to thank on Twitter those who thanked him for his long career at France Télévisions, thus confirming the information from

.

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