Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, former sports minister, now the only candidate in the running to preside over the French Olympic Committee

She's the only one left. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, former Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games, will be the only candidate in the election for the presidency of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) on June 19, following the announcement on Saturday, June 7, of the withdrawal of her opponent, Didier Séminet.

"Faced with the manifest inequity surrounding the two candidacies (...) , and given the conditions deemed legal generated by the candidacy of the person who was Minister of Sports a few months ago, I have taken the decision, with regret (...) , to withdraw my candidacy," wrote the president of the baseball-softball federation on the social network Linkedin.

Minister of Sports from 2022 to 2024, and notably during the Paris Olympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra saw her candidacy to succeed David Lappartient challenged by several opponents, first and foremost the former president of the CNOSF Denis Masséglia, who questioned a potential conflict of interest due to her ministerial duties.

During a major oral presentation reserved for candidates on Monday, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra assured that the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) had "authorized her to move forward with her candidacy project" and that the CNOSF ethics committee had validated this candidacy "without reservation." Now without an opponent, the former director general of the French Tennis Federation before her appointment to the Ministry of Sports is expected to become the next head of French Olympics.