The president of the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF), Brigitte Henriques, elected in June 2021, resigned this Thursday, in plenary General Assembly, 14 months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the body announced.
Brigitte Henriques, former vice-president of the French Football Federation (FFF), has resigned after a year and a half of conflicts, internal rivalries and an “open war” with her predecessor Denis Masseglia.
The secretary-general, Astrid Guyart, will temporarily take charge of the Olympic body, until the election of a new president, “in the next three months,” the CNSOF statement said.
“The situation was no longer tenable, she made the right choice,” said the president of one of the federations present at one of the body’s busiest magna meetings, quoted by the French news agency AFP.
The CNOSF has been facing an unprecedented crisis for more than a year and a half, between threats and denunciations, revelations and email exchanges in the media.
This ‘climate’ has become unsustainable in recent days, after Denis Masseglia filed a lawsuit for breach of trust by Brigitte Henriques.
“This resignation is a way to solve this crisis, it was a very noble act,” said the president of another federation, also quoted by AFP.
Source: DN
