Gymnast Kaylia Nemour won the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games for Algeria. But it is not only in Algeria that his popularity has exploded.
The young athlete unleashes passions in France, the country where she was born and where she was trained. For the champion’s return to the local competition, her Avoine-Beaumont club recorded the best audience since its existence.
Everyone wants to see up close the Olympic champion who has been talked about so much since last summer. Saturday December 14, she started the 2024-2025 Top 12 season, the French elite gymnastics championship.
The Avoine-Beaumont team faced that of Saint-Étienne at the Beaumont-en-Véron gymnasium. Those in charge of the local club, chaired by Stéphanie Nemour, Kaylia’s mother, did not expect to see the room literally taken by storm.
About 700 people flocked to the gymnasium which, for once, proved too cramped. Usually, the club recorded an average attendance of 300 to 350 spectators. The organizers had to improvise seats near the mats.
France: historic crowds to see Kaylia Nemour
« It’s historic for the club. We explain it by the return to the Top 12. Most certainly by the Olympic medal effect. By the poster too, which is magnificent. We welcome Saint-Étienne, a very good team », welcomed Stéphanie Nemour, quoted by La Nouvelle République.
According to the French newspaper, some came from very far away especially to see Kaylia Nemour. Others stormed the seats placed very close to the uneven bars, the Algerian champion’s favorite specialty.
Even if she did not carry out the gesture which now bears her name, the Nemour, Kaylia received a huge ovation. His passage to the uneven bars is magical. In total silence, everyone present took out their smartphones to immortalize the moment. The match was won 34-14 by the Avoine-Beaumont team.
Kaylia Nemour became very famous thanks to the Olympic gold medal obtained at 17 years old. Before getting on the Olympic podium in August 2024, the Franco-Algerian made headlines for her change of sporting nationality.
In August 2023, the young gymnast opted for the colors of Algeria, her father’s country of origin, after a standoff with the French Gymnastics Federation (FFG) which refused to authorize her to resume competition after knee surgery in 2021.
Despite her change of nationality, Kaylia Nemour is very admired in France. During the last Olympic Games in Paris, she competed in a packed room.
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