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2024 Olympics: “We have to stop complaining, the whole world is coming to Paris”, Yannick Noah deplores the bashing of the Games

Yannick Noah will participate in the great celebration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games since he will be captain of the French wheelchair tennis team.

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2024 Olympics: “We have to stop complaining, the whole world is coming to Paris”, Yannick Noah deplores the bashing of the Games

Yannick Noah will participate in the great celebration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games since he will be captain of the French wheelchair tennis team. A mission that he mentioned during the program Tout le sport on France 2 on Monday. “I did nine years in the Davis Cup, five or six years in the Fed Cup, I played for my money for a long time. It’s another universe but I think I can contribute something,” explained the winner of Roland-Garros in 1983, called by his friend and wheelchair tennis champion Stéphane Houdet.

“We are a bunch of guys, we are going to fight with our rackets and try to represent France well,” said Noah, 63, honored to be part of the adventure of the Olympic Games in Paris. “The Games are something extraordinary. Already in itself, but having the Olympic Games in Paris is unique. The next time there will be the Games, I don’t know if it will be in fifty years. In any case, I won’t be there anyway.”

At the end of the show, Yannick Noah spoke about the legacy that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will leave, sometimes regretting the lack of enthusiasm of some for this event and the perception of sport in general in France. “It’s a source of motivation for young people and sport in general, for kids. We are not a sporting nation. We do two hours of sports at school when we can't find a way to get a fake medical certificate so we don't go. (...) We should all be screaming with joy even if sometimes we have to prepare a road, even if sometimes there is a traffic jam that will make us arrive home five minutes later,” a- he added before insisting: “We have to stop complaining. There are the Games coming to Paris, the whole world. We are going to welcome the whole world to our home. If I have people over at home, I tidy up a little. I want it to go well. It's going to be beautiful and I think there are a lot of people who don't realize it. »

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