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About fifty personalities from the sports world have decided to venture into the field of politics in order to wet their jerseys to prevent France from having “a far-right president”. Judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, handball player Nikola Karabatic, ex-basketball player Tony Parker and even ex-swimmer Laure Manaudou thus signed a column published on Tuesday in The Parisian calling to vote for Emmanuel Macron. “If we are fully aware of the difficulties that many French people are going through, we are convinced that voting for a party that would endanger republican values would be the worst remedy”, write the signatories of this text also published by France Info.
The word is explicit and particularly heavy with meaning. Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday accusing his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of “genocide” in Ukraine, a few hours after using this word for the first time to describe the situation in the country invaded by Moscow. Until then, the American administration had not pronounced this word, used by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “It is increasingly clear that Putin is simply trying to erase the very idea of being able to be a Ukrainian,” even added the American president.
Mission accomplished: in a year, the bags of Les Bleues will be in Australia and New Zealand. Victorious on Tuesday over Slovenia (1-0), the French women’s football team has indeed won its precious sesame for the World Cup-2023 which will take place from July 20 to August 20. At Le Mans, Corinne Deacon’s players scored their eighth success in as many games in this qualifying run with two more games in September. France, at the top of Group I with an 8-point lead, will therefore play the fifth final phase in their World Cup history, where they will try to do better than in 2011 (fourth), 2015 and 2019 (quarter-finals ). Above all, this qualification is welcome three months before the Euro.