Is this an image that we will never see again? In 2011, under the eyes of Nicolas Sarkozy, then President of the Republic, who came to chair the opening ceremony of the Pacific Games in Nouméa, two flag bearers advanced onto the track at the Magenta stadium. One, the Kanak tennis player Nicolas N'Godrela, wearing the tricolors, the other, the New Caledonian swimmer of European origin Lara Grangeon, raising the green, blue and red flag, struck with the ridge arrow of the independentists. If this “double flag” never won unanimous support in New Caledonia, he made his entry into sports arenas that year, never to leave again.
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-A usage that the New Caledonia MP Nicolas Metzdorf (Renaissance), author of a written question to the government on the subject, wishes to question in October 2024, and who welcomed the response on Tuesday January 14 « positive »provided by the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Life. “Only the tricolor flag must be used at any international sporting event”writes the government, in its response of December 10, 2024.
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