We almost waited. The composition of the new government has finally been announced, and a new face appears at Sports. Exit Roxana Maracineanu, make way for Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, appointed Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be precise.
A new title that says a lot about the place of Paris 2024 in its agenda. “Sport finds a ministry of full exercise! “said Sarah Ourahmoune, Olympic boxing champion in 2016, on Twitter. Roxana Maracineanu was indeed “only” Minister Delegate to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports. A strong signal.
Former tennis player, Oudéa-Castéra had shone among the juniors in the 1990s, without ever managing to confirm on the main circuit. She had found the little yellow ball last year as general manager of the French federation.
Passed in the meantime by the ENA, where she was part of the Léopold Sédar Senghor promotion, like President Emmanuel Macron, she notably worked at the Court of Auditors, then in the Axa and Carrefour groups.
Her appointment comes as no surprise since she prepared the sports program for the Head of State. At the origin of the association “Let’s renovate French sport”, she had also applied to be general manager of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympics, headed at the post by Etienne Thobois.
A few days ago, she congratulated herself on Twitter on the innovations of the new edition of Roland-Garros, “from the redesign of the Central to the evening sessions”. The new minister will now change rackets.