On the set of the Team channel Tuesday, the 2000 Olympic champion was indignant at the racist insults received by Sarah Ourahmoune, who gave up running for president of the French Boxing Federation.
The disgust of Brahim Asloum. This Tuesday on the set of The Team channelthe Olympic boxing champion, in 2000 in Sydney, gave his support to Sarah Ourahmoune. After the latter, Olympic vice-champion in 2016 in Rio, decided to withdraw from the elections for the presidency of the French Federation for “racist and sexist attacks” received from members of the boxing world.
«I put myself in Sarah’s place. We have the same profiles, origins, we love our country. We did everything to be able to carry the blue-white-red flag, live up to it and do good for our discipline, Brahim Asloum was indignant. And what hurts me the most is that it was my world that insulted him with all the names. And these are people with origins, people like us, who allow themselves to call Sarah ‘housekeeper of the federation’, ‘dirty Arab’… What are we talking about?»
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We sometimes see it in other sports, but for us, it’s only young people with immigrant backgrounds. These words should not exist in our country. I’m not saying they have to exist elsewhere, but even less so here.
Brahim Asloum
«I knew that society was in trouble, that things were going in all directions. But it’s a sport where we need to be with each other. And there, you have a remarkable woman, who was an amateur world champion, an Olympic vice-champion, an exemplary mother, who comes out of childbirth to return to the Olympic world, who demonstrates this resilience, this will, this determination… but tell me who you think you are ?, continued the former boxer, very moved and angry. This group of coaches, three-quarters of them, have not done a tenth of what this champion has done. And they allow themselves to put his title on the line, to talk about his origins, to disrespect him. She is much more cultured than three-quarters of the coaches in this collective.
«But what an example of shit, whispered the Olympic champion, conceding that he had “a little ashamed” et «mal». «Honestly, I’m in pain.”he added. Before concluding: “We sometimes see it in other sports, but for us, it’s only young people with immigrant backgrounds. These words should not exist in our country. I am not saying that they must exist elsewhere, but even less here (…) Sarah appears in practically all instances. She is respected. She does a crazy job. We rarely have champions in boxing who reach this intellectual level and there we disrespect him like that, as if he were a rotten board.
