
Nine months after the Olympic Games, the Paris 2024 gold medalist fails to find a partnership which worries him before the next Olympic deadline in Los Angeles in 2028.
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Where did the Jo spirit in France go, when it is not called Léon Marchand or Teddy Riner? Many French medalists are asking the question today. Like the BMX Race Olympic champion Joris Daudet, who returned to the media scene on the weekend of May 17 and 18, when opening to the general public of the Olympic cycling site of Élancourt. Nine months after the Olympic Games, despite the gold won in Paris, the athlete struggles to find money to continue his career and sound the alarm by thinking of the 2028 Olympic Games.
Last summer, the historic triplet of the tricolor BMX, Joris Daudet in mind, went around televisions and the media. Nine months later and despite an increase of 30% of licensees, the euphoria has given way to disappointment. “Historical triplet, we thought it was going to help us all three, we expected to have partnerships, describes the 34 -year -old Olympic champion.
“We hit the door of a lot of things, but often they answer us that they are not interested, that there is no money and unfortunately, I heard a lot of people say it. We are not a so -called 'sporting' country. When you are Olympic champion and you can't have a partner … “he laments.
“It's still disappointing to have made so many French people vibrate, and that there is nothing behind.”
Joris Daudet, BMX Olympic championin franceinfo
Under these conditions, it is difficult for the champion to be fully turned to the Los Angeles Games in 2028. “If no one follows behind, why do it ?, Questions Joris Daudet. And there, I spoke with Anthony Jeanjean, a lot of aids that have been deleted too. We are not all footballers and we do not earn millions, we will have to find other solutions. “ The situation is such that the French cycling federation is working on an innovative plan around, in particular, the right to image to try to find new financial resources for its champions.