Astrid Guyart, Olympic vice-champion in team foil at the Tokyo Olympics, was appointed secretary general of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) on Wednesday during its board of directors, replacing Didier Séminet, landed there. a month, announced the instance.
Deputy Secretary General since the election of Brigitte Henriques at the head of the CNOSF in June 2021, the foil fencer has also been part for a few days of a quartet of leaders (with Jean-Pierre Siutat, Michel Callot and Sébastien Poirier) formed to support Brigitte Henriques, who needsa time of rest“, after months of conflict with its former general secretary, according to Michel Callot, the president of the federation of cycling.
Since the announcement of the eviction of Didier Séminet, also targeted since by a complaint for “emotional abuse» by Brigitte Henriques, the CNOSF is going through an area of strong turbulence.
This internal war is polarized around two camps, with an anti-Henriques front crystallized around the former secretary general, former president Denis Masseglia and embodied by the president of the judo federation Stéphane Nomis.
A discussion about “the future of the sports movement“The day after this CA must be held Thursday at the judo federation, a meeting that some interpret as the assembly of the opposition to the president..