Nathalie Péchalat felt humiliated. The result of the election for the presidency of the French Ice Sports Federation (FFSG), which fell on June 25, struggled to pass. After two years at its head, Jean Dujardin’s wife had to suffer a defeat, to everyone’s surprise and not without difficulty. Very disappointed by this defeat, the 38-year-old former skater had a lot of trouble digesting this result. “It’s the interstellar shame for all ice sports, we come back to another system of values, to another functioning, to other methods which are not mine”, she said. But after this humiliation, the mother of two little girls, Jeanne (born in December 2015) and Alice (born in February 2021), decided to decompress.
If she was able to count on the support of Jean Dujardin following her harsh disappointment, Nathalie Péchalat pampered herself with an early vacation, this Tuesday, July 5, 2022, as we can see on her Instagram account. In story, the skater and mother posted a photo of her water skiing (see the slideshow). Is the humiliation now behind her? Not so sure. If Nathalie Péchalat was also marked by the fact that she was beaten, it is, as she said, above all the value system behind it that bothers her so much. She thus refers to the former president of the FFSG, Didier Gailhaguet, accused of having covered up a coach implicated in rape and sexual assault, and main supporter of his opponent and new president, Gwenaëlle Noury.