The Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, offered the new president of the Ice Sports Federation to meet her on Tuesday, she said on Sunday on the sidelines of Olympic Day at the Stade de France.

On Saturday, the outgoing president of this federation, Nathalie Péchalat, was ousted by an unknown person, Gwenaëlle Noury, whom she claims to be "remotely guided" by former president Didier Gailhaguet, accused of having covered up a coach implicated for rape and sexual assault.

“Gwenaelle Noury ​​won by 52% of the vote, I offered her that we could meet on Tuesday,” the minister told the press near the Stade de France, when asked about the result of this election.

"What is important for us is first of all to respect the result of this election, but to ensure that the whole fight for freeing the voices of victims and for the prevention, the fight against sexual violence, is pursued with the utmost stubbornness,” she added in the same vein as a tweet made on Saturday.

"Interstellar Shame"

"We must continue to ensure that this federation is focused on these points at the same time as it continues to carry its development trajectory," she insisted.

“There is a message of great firmness and clarity on these issues that we absolutely want to convey and I think it is my responsibility to make this message completely clear”, she hammered again.

The new president, who had had no public expression during the campaign, said on Saturday that she had "consulted" Didier Gailhaguet "a consultant like all the others".

She did not comment on sexual violence.

Nathalie Péchalat was elected two years ago after the scandal of sexual violence shook the federation following the revelations of Sarah Abitbol, ​​raped as a teenager by her trainer.

In 2020, it was after a violent standoff with the previous Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, that Didier Gailhaguet threw in the towel.

"It's the interstellar shame for all ice sports, we come back to another system of values, to another functioning, to other methods which are not mine", reacted Nathalie Péchalat after the result of the election.

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