TMC (DR) / European Volleyball (DR)
By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist
If it was ultimately Celine Dion who stole the show of the opening ceremony, nothing got people talking more than the presence of Aya Nakamura, established as a societal and political affair for many months. So what did Earvin Ngapeth, known for his unfailing outspokenness, think? It was precisely this question that he answered.
Earvin Ngapeth is a man of many talents. The first, the best known of all, is obviously his gift for volleyball, which was once again imperial in the triumph of the Blues at the Olympic Games. An exceptional receiver-attacker, the flagship recruit from Poitiers did not steal this 2nd gold medal, 3 years after Tokyo. But that’s not all!
At the same time, Ngapeth is also a rapper in his spare time. This is how on August 13, he published the album “L’été est trop court”, in which he attacks in particular the “racists”, according to him, who had criticized the choice of Aya Nakamura to take part in the opening ceremony.
Earvin Ngapeth fully supports Aya Nakamura.
Guest of Mouloud Achour in “Clique”, the French team player returned to this big Aya Nakamura controversy, and developed the idea behind his piece:
Already, I was super happy that Aya was chosen. What bothered me was that only politicians came to talk about Aya singing for the Games, and not a single athlete was questioned.
As is often the case, it was politicians who disagreed, and who said crazy things. But us athletes, and I think I speak for 90% of athletes, we were super happy that it was Aya. Except that I haven’t seen an athlete on set being questioned about this thing.
And then there was everything that happened around it, the racist stuff and everything… It made me crazy, you know? It felt like a duty, as an athlete and rapper, to talk about that.
A clear and precise position from the native of Saint-Raphaël, whose support for Aya Nakamura is unwavering. Moreover, we invite you to (re)discover the performance of the Franco-Malian below, namely this now famous “featuring” with the Republican Guard. An already cult moment:
Like the vast majority of athletes and artists, and unlike 60% of the French population according to an RTL survey, Earvin Ngapeth found nothing to criticize the presence of Aya Nakamura at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games – quite the contrary! A major support, one more, which will surely have warmed the artist’s heart.
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