For a sports competition to be successful, it is often necessary for its organizer to be successful.

Precisely, this is where the shoe pinches according to Thomas Bach, three years before the Olympic Games in Paris.

At the end of the Tokyo Olympics this summer, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expressed his "concern" with regard to the disappointing results of the Blues, according to comments reported in an internal document from the National Agency of sport (ANS).

France finished 8th in the medal table with 33 awards, far enough from the stated goal of 40 medals, a disappointing record and less good than in Rio four years earlier where it had finished 7th with 42 medals.

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During the reception of the medal-winning sportsmen from Tokyo at the Elysee Palace on September 13, Emmanuel Macron did not spare his audience by urging the sportsmen to "do much more" for the next Olympics in Paris.

"The results are not quite what we expected", launched Emmanuel Macron, going so far as to set the goal of joining the world top 5: "the success of the Games will be the success of our athletes. because it works like that ”.

Concerns entrusted to the French delegation in Tokyo

Obviously, this point of view is shared by the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, who took the liberty of discussing it in Tokyo with the French delegation.

"Thomas Bach expressed the concern of the IOC with regard to the results of the French delegation in the perspective of Paris", we can read in preparatory documents for the board of directors of the ANS which is to be held on Thursday.

"He affirms that the Games are successful when the athletes of the host country achieve great performances," the text continues.

Tuesday, the manager of the high performance of the ANS, Claude Onesta, presented measures which must, according to him, make it possible to meet the objective set by the President of the Republic. They are divided into three areas: better support for athletes, better remuneration for coaches and reinforced supervision for federations in difficulty, which can no longer be in "real autonomy", according to Onesta.

The high performance manager has therefore classified the federations into three categories, one of which includes those whose results are "disappointing", with a performance project "ineffective" and "insufficient" supervision.

In this category are, according to the document consulted by AFP, 19 federations: athletics, badminton, boxing, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, climbing, football, golf, gymnastics, weightlifting, wrestling, swimming, modern pentathlon, surfing, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery.

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