And one more voice, not the least legitimate, which speaks out on the subject which has been rising since this summer and the disappointing results of the French delegation at the Tokyo Olympics.
In a long interview with our colleagues from Le Figaro, Kevin Mayer gave his opinion on the role of the school in the trajectory of the great French sportsmen, and with all due respect to Jean-Michel Blanquer, we can only say that he thinks a lot about it.
“In France, it is degrading limit to be strong in sport, regrets the Olympic vice-champion of decathlon in Tokyo. Everything that is done in France to encourage people to play sport is done for health, which is very good, but nothing encourages us to put ourselves forward through sport. At school, everything is done to make children understand that it is better to have a good mark in mathematics than in sports. And again, when you suck in sport, you still get correct marks while in math the teachers do not hesitate to put 2 or 3 out of 20. In sport, to have 2 out of 20, you have to run the 100m in ten minutes ”.
Suffice to say that the coup of Emmanuel Macron who puts pressure in his speech at the Elysee Palace to "do a lot more" medals in 2024, did not move our favorite decathlete, as if we could change an (in) culture in a snap: “At school, the culture of winning in sport is simply non-existent.
Public opinion criticizes certain French sportsmen who do not give everything at the Games, but they have never been taught to do so.
The problem is in sports education.
Children must be made to understand that they can exist through sport ”.
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