They are champions, wear the French team jersey and come from another country. The Blue, White, Red heart, Africa at the head and feet in the Olympics, how do athletes experience this double belonging?
With Souleymane Cissokho, French boxer of Senegalese origin, captain of the French team and Rio 2016 bronze medalist and Philippe Djo Petitjean, Franco-Togolese physical trainer from AS Saint-Étienne in search of qualification for Paris 2024 in 110 meters hurdles for Togo.
“Africa at Games” is also
✅ 1 woman/1 destiny – The portrait of an inspiring woman with Reïna-Flor Okori Makendengue Olympian 100 meters hurdles Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012 for the French athletics team and Rio 2016 for Equatorial Guinea.
✅ 1 photo/1 story – The first African games in Brazzaville 1965 with Yvan Issekin, doctor in Political Science from the University of Yaoundé 2. Teacher and researcher at the Center for Studies and Research in Administrative and Political Dynamics (CERDAP), at the Center for Studies and Research in Law, Economy and Sports Policy (CERDEPS) of the University of Yaoundé 2, at the Center for Research, Diplomatic, International and Strategic Studies (CREDIS).