A “18% cup for next year” is “totally disproportionate”, denounces Amélie Oudéa-Castera

There is “A cup of 18% of its credits envisaged in the budget for next year”For sports, “We want to sound the alarm because this effort is completely disproportionate”, denounces Sunday July 20 on Franceinfo Amélie Oudéa-Castera President of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF). “Already during the year 2025 the sport has been withdrawn almost half of its budgetary credits, almost 300 million euros. If we are again on a drop in this amplitude, it is absolutely dramatic and it is deeply unfair when we compare this effort to those of other ministerial missions”Exhibits the former Sports Minister.

According to her, “It is incomprehensible, it is in reverse of the inheritance of the Olympic Games, contrary to the ambition that we have been carrying for several years to become a sports nation”she believes. Lower the sports budget more in France, “It’s dangerous because it is amateur sport that will suffer from all this. These are clubs that will be weakened, some will put the key under the door”worries Amélie Oudés-Castera. “These are gymnasiums, swimming pools that we will not build, jobs of sports educators who will disappear, children that we will not welcome in our clubs”.

“At a time when we all have efforts to make, sport wants to take its share in a way that is proportioned that is just”Because sport is “0.10% of state spending”So 18% decrease “It is an effort that is impossible to absorb in its proportions”. “You have to stop matranging sport”. Therefore, “Our requests are simple, plus one euro should not be withdrawn from sports during the year 2025insists Amélie oudéa-Castera, A budget that is stabilized around 800 million euros next year “.