“I introduced myself, I gave my name. Even if the chances are tiny compared to renowned athletes, it would be good for our discipline,” declared the double BMX Racing world champion in 2011 and 2016.
“We have quite a few world championship titles and world cups but unfortunately, we are shown every four years and that’s it. It would be nice to have a slightly less popular sport that could benefit from it, because we train as much as the others,” added the 33-year-old Frenchman during a meeting with the press at the BMX stadium in Saint-Quentin. -en-Yvelines.
Daudet has participated in three Olympics, in 2012 in London, in 2016 in Rio and in 2021 in Tokyo. Often favorite, he never managed to win a medal, victim of falls, notably in Tokyo where he fell in the last turn before finishing seventh.
Still vice-world champion last year in Glasgow behind another Frenchman, Romain Mahieu, he once again promises to be one of the main candidates for gold on August 2 in Paris.
This year, for the first time, the four standard bearers of the French Olympic and Paralympic teams – a man and a woman each time – will be elected by their peers.
To hope to be nominated, an athlete must meet exemplary criteria and have already been an Olympian, but without having already been a flag bearer for France.
Each federation must submit the names of candidate athletes until May 31 to the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF). The names of the four elected officials must then be revealed in mid-July.
