Amelie Oudea-Castera, a former professional tennis player, appeared locked in a close embrace with the president, sparking controversy in the French media and online.
Photos of French President Emmanuel Macron’s sports minister planting a kiss close to his neck at the Olympic Games opening ceremony have caused a stir in France.
Gabriel Attal, Macron’s prime minister, can be seen looking the other way as Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera, 46, embraced the French president.“The French have fallen in love with the Games,” Oudea-Castera told CNews after 85 per cent said they viewed the opening ceremony as a triumph. A similar amount thought the Olympics overall were a success.
Some were more critical. “I find this photo indecent, it’s not worthy of a president and a minister.”“Woah! That’s what I call team building. When I kiss a colleague, she doesn’t hook the back of my neck,” said another. Others pointed to other photos of her kissing athletes in similar fashion, insisting she was just passionate about the Games.Macron had given her the double responsibility of sports and education minister but he was forced to drop the latter post after she caused uproar by saying she had taken her daughter out of a state elementary school and put her into an exclusive private one because of a chronic “lack of supply teachers”.
France’s Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and Tokyo 2020 Paralympics triathlon gold medallist Alexis Hanquinquant swim in the Seine in Paris on July 13.However, the men’s triathlon event scheduled to take place on Tuesday morning had to be postponed because of pollution. The women’s and men’s triathlon races will take place on Wednesday morning after the Seine was declared clean enough for the swimming leg to take place.
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