She didn’t seem to expect it… While she was president of the French Federation of Ice Sports, Nathalie Péchalat has just been beaten by Gwenaëlle Noury, who won the election with 52.3% of the vote. votes, against 47.7% for the outgoing president. Jean Dujardin’s companion was very disappointed, but also furious, after learning the result, from our colleagues from RMC.
The former European ice dancing champion is struggling to accept the decision given her involvement during her previous term. “We knew that the election was going to be complicated, one way or the other. It’s democracy, as long as the result is not in, everything is open”she confides at first before going out of her hinges: “I find it humiliating and disrespectful, given the work we have done collectively over the past two years. That’s the game”.
The man in the shadows to whom she is very angry
The one who had a complicated period because of the Covid-19 also seems to be very angry with Didier Gailhaguet who would have had a very important role in his defeat. “I can’t disagree because he was the one who led the campaign and made his program”she regrets before being very virulent in her remarks to qualify the “responsible” for her defeat: “Afterwards, what place will he have, in the shadows or on the front of the stage, I don’t know… Even if he is only a ghost, it is an interstellar shame for the ice sports”.
The companion of Jean Dujardin has the impression of not having had the recognition that she deserved for all the work done during the last two years. “We had rehabilitated the Ice Sports Federation, which had been so often in turmoil”she congratulates herself before concluding: “Maybe people have amnesia, but we remember the corruption scandal, the sexual violence scandals, the morality issues. We were out of all that”. Hoping that, despite the departure of Nathalie Péchalat, the French Ice Sports Federation will continue the fights led by the former European champion in ice dancing and that no new scandal will break out.
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