“What bothers me is that in our country, we look down on sport.” Estelle Denis has not been kind to the public figures who carry the Olympic flame. “It’s not a specialty in the baccalaureate. When you arrive at a dinner as a sports journalist, you are less well regarded than a business or political journalist. When you’re good at sports but not good at math, you’re looked down upon. And we despise sports teachers, she explained in her Thursday show, Estelle Midi, before continuing. But there, as if by chance, when it comes to carrying the flame and doing your own advertising on social networks… The people we’ve never seen in tracksuits and who are there to boast because they carry the flame, all to make their own personal statement, it bothers me terribly.”
The ex-partner of Raymond Domenech confided that she had no problem with these “people” but asked them not to spit on sport. The host then concluded by highlighting the “heroes” of the Covid period: “During Covid, we didn’t stop celebrating the ‘front lines’ as we said, the doctors, nurses, cashiers, garbage collectors… Even if they don’t play sports, I would have preferred to see them carry the flame because they represented France at a time which was complicated and we must thank them. Rather than others who use the Olympics for their own benefit. It makes me feel uncomfortable. These are people you never see talking about sports and who will never go to a stadium, except to show off in front of the photographers. At Roland-Garros, the people in the stands never go to watch a tennis match… It drives me crazy!”
