This unfortunate reflex is specific to all those responsible for national sport: being at the forefront each time a Tunisian champion stands out on the international scene.
Our remarks are not directed against the current Minister of Sports, Kamel Deguiche, or against the president of the CNOT, Mehrez Boussayene. The latter, in his capacity as an “parton” of the Olympic disciplines, appropriates almost all the exploits that our athletes carry out. And he is never satisfied.
That sport managers are present at the reception of our world champion and Olympic, Ahmed Hafnaoui, at the airport, this is the most natural outside the protocol frame that requires the event.
Undoubtedly, the Minister of Sports was dispatched by the President of the Republic while waiting for Hafnaoui, a double gold medalist in Japan, was not received at the Palais de Carthage and decorated insignia that lend with his status as world champion.
What is sorry, not to say what intrigues us are rather the speeches that those in the media pronounce at the reception of our champions.
“What Ayoub Hafnaoui achieved is the fruit of a successful sports policy”. The policy followed in elite sports is successful in every way, contrary to what bad languages leave, “Kamel Deguiche told the airport hall this morning.
Why is this malicious discourse even if, it is agreed, it is addressed to its detractors? On this happy opportunity, Kamel Deguiche shouldn’t have given a unifying speech which tends to unify the sports community, torn to date by cleavages and Egos which do not have to be.
And then, what sports policy, the Minister is talking about? Is there really a sports policy in Tunisia? I would like the managers to light my lantern, ignoring that I am.
Look at a little what Morocco is achieving in terms of infrastructure, training, lobbying, marketing, to name only these aspects of sport, to realize that the gap has been more diguous with countries that were cited us, not long ago, as an example, in terms of sporting success.
My advice to our sports managers: let our athletes be in peace and do not try to recover performances in which you have participated neither by near nor far.
Hafnaoui, Jabeur, Jendoubi and the other champions of the same status owe their performance only to their talent, efforts and self -denial. If there are people to thank, they are their technical staff and their parents. And the sponsors who believed in them.
A good hearing!
