About fifteen indoor and indoor sports federations, such as judo, boxing, basketball, or even skating or gymnastics on Thursday gave a “cry of alarm” in the face of the crisis to which amateur sport is facing. face.
All call on the government to be helped more. CNOSF president Denis Masseglia, who will hand over at the end of June, was also moved: “if we can hope that the Tokyo Games will bring light to the end of the tunnel, for French indoor sports there is a tunnel and there is no light ”.
“There is no awareness that the clubs are going badly, that the social bond will burst,” he added, with “millions of licensees and tens of thousands of clubs in pain” evoking “a cocote minute”. He also mentioned the phenomenon of “switch” towards outdoor sports, such as football, which they can practice.
“Some sports have not known competition for almost a year,” added Jean-Pierre Siutat, boss of the basketball federation. Indoors, only professional sport can continue. M.Siutat deplored, apart from partial unemployment, “zero state support”. Supporting figures, all the representatives of the federations, expressed the decrease in the number of licensees (between -15 and -55%), and financial losses (between -18 and -40%).
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