Léon Marchand points out the decision to abandon the generalization of two additional hours of weekly sport in college

The four-time Olympic champion at the Paris Games reacted on Thursday after the announcement that the government had abandoned this measure.

Not a word but an emoji. Two days after the announcement by the Ministry of National Education to abandon the generalization of two additional hours of sport each week in middle school, a plan tested for two years, Léon Marchand reacted, Thursday, November 14, on his X account ( formerly Twitter). He placed a clown emoji on top of an article The Team referring to this announcement. A widely commented and shared reaction. The French swimmer's account is followed by nearly 150,000 people.

At the start of the 2023 school year, Emmanuel Macron nevertheless expressed his desire to generalize the system from 2026 to all 7,000 colleges in France. But the Ministry of National Education, in the official bulletin on its website, estimated that the experiment had “demonstrated the relevance of the measure for middle school students far from regular practice”, but felt that she is “still perceived as complex to implement and its generalization to all 7 000 colleges does not appear sustainable.

These two additional hours of sport will therefore be refocused “only on colleges classified as REP/REP+, territories where the license rate [sportive] is the weakest.