2024-01-10 21:14:57
LOIC VENANCE / AFP Émilie Gomis is no longer an ambassador for the 2024 Olympics after her Instagram publication on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
LOIC VENANCE / AFP
Émilie Gomis is no longer an ambassador for the 2024 Olympics after her Instagram post on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
SPORT – Words that don’t get across. Former basketball player Émilie Gomis resigned from her position as ambassador for the Paris 2024 Games after a controversial publication on Israel that she shared on her social networks, the organizing committee of the Olympic Games (Cojo) announced this Wednesday, January 10 ) in a press release.
The Paris-2024 general assembly “ considered that this publication contravened its duty of neutrality and no longer allowed it to be able to calmly carry out its missions with Paris-2024”specifies de Cojo.
“Émilie Gomis, in a shared concern for appeasement and responsibility, wished to present her resignation from her mandate as member of the Board of Directors and ambassador of the Terre de Jeux 2024 label to Paris 2024 which takes note of this”it is still written in this press release.
Apologies weren’t enough
Two days after the Hamas attacks against Israel in October, Émilie Gomis relayed in a story on her Instagram account a post showing the maps of France from 1947, 1967 and 2023, on which the tricolor flag covering French territory is gradually replaced by the Israeli flag. “ What would you do in this situation? “, she added in a comment.
The excuses were not enough to quickly swell, she denounced in the sports daily The Team a ” witch hunt “. “In no case did I want to legitimize what Hamas had done”assures the player, who strongly condemned this attack in a letter addressed to the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
“This October 9, I reacted with emotion, my story was hurtful to some, I recognize it. I reiterate my apologies. This massacre, I took it head on like everyone else,” she declared again. Insufficient excuses since in addition to no longer being an ambassador for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, she was also ousted from the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF), note The Parisian.
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