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Paris is closer than ever. Never so close, in fact. In less than 10 days, the sports world, with its superstars, is preparing to take us to the French capital, from July 26 to August 11, to experience almost a month of guaranteed spectacle and exploits. Among the world’s best, 46 Algerian athletes, real stars in the shadows, competing in 15 different disciplines.
Their names are Sedjati, Moula, Triki, Imène Khelif, Kayla Nemour, Amina Belkadi, to name only the leaders, to whom no one seems to pay attention. In the middle of Euro24 and Copa America where the best players in the world were on the field and monopolized attention by offering us, suspense in addition, beautiful frescoes dedicated to the beautiful game, and just after the final of the Algerian Cup which pitted two big names of our dreary Ligue 1 Mobilis, in this case the MC Algiers Mouloudia Club d’Alger, more commonly abbreviated to Mouloudia d’Alger or MCA, is an Algerian multi-sport club founded on August 7, 1921 and based in Algiers. Mouloudia Club d’Alger is the only Algerian team that managed to win the treble in 1976 and by winning the first continental trophy. and the CR Belouizdad Chabab Riadhi Belouizdad, more commonly abbreviated to Chabab Belouizdad or CRB, is an Algerian football club based in the Belouizdad district of Algiers, founded on July 15, 1962. (a great but anything but great . . . be poster apart from the madness that took hold of the whole of Algiers before the shock, on the fans’ side, to say the dictatorship exercised by the “king” football on the media level) names “unknown” to the battalion but true champions (real ones) episodically took advantage of certain gatherings to steal the show. To remind the public that there is not only football (it’s been a long time since we saw the name of any national selection invited to this kind of gathering) to carry the national colors high.
Like our queen of world gymnastics, the very young, small but so tall, Kaylia Nemour went to Bucharest (Romania) to definitively establish her domination over the discipline by displaying, as a bonus and in addition to hoarding the solid gold medals, her incredible talent.
Or during the last meetings of the queen of Olympic disciplines, athletics, with this young man who arrived from his native Tiaret (there are not, is it not, only the big cities to offer us big names to stay in the jargon in a sport that has given us so many great champions like Morceli, Boulmerka, Benida among others and whose names, inscribed in letters of gold, figure, for eternity, among the unforgettable exploits of universal sport), a certain Djamel Sedjati who decided to make an impression by inviting himself into the very closed circle of the greatest performers in history in his favorite distance, the 800 meters, of which he takes the lead in No. 1 before, one hopes, the highest step of the podium, in Paris where he has just issued the most serious warning to his potential competitors.
Minor disciplines, who said minor?
The cherry on the cake is that he will be helped in this quest by his talented sidekick, Slimane Moula, who apparently hides his game well, the chances of a thunderbolt from him (a double blow why not at the arrival of a final that all of Algeria is waiting for) remaining possible while in ambush, a term that we lend to the attackers of our championship where the majority cuts a poor figure despite a super status underlined by huge contracts, our triple jumper, Mohamed Tahar Yasser Triki, whose recent results make him a possible champion. Athletics, this poor relation, like of course all the disciplines that do not bring in millions of dinars, steals the show and is preparing to offer us moments of joy worthy of such an event.
Boxing with five dreaming gloves – gold and led by the inevitable Imène Khelif promised to the vermeil because super-favorite in her weight, the judoka Amina Belkadi who, with the same Triki, will form the duo of flag bearers of Algeria during the opening ceremony, wrestling in its three appellations (freestyle, Greco-Roman and women’s), fencing and the other disciplines preparing to land in the city of “lights” with clear ambitions to illuminate the sky.
In the shadow of a national football that is stingy with strong emotions and accumulates poor performances internationally, so-called minor disciplines, offer themselves, as worthy ambassadors, with real champions, as stars not made of cardboard, to remind us how our sports movement, in search of resilience and kept on life support like a decadent eleven-a-side game and rarely leaving the intensive care unit despite the colossal sums injected over boring seasons, is ungrateful. A second college that will know how to take advantage of such a gathering to tickle the forgetful memories of the 46 “gold diggers” in no less than 15 disciplines (without the Co-sports, and especially not football) who will make the trip.
By the way, how much does an Olympic champion earn in our country? Nothing to do with the average monthly cash that our big names in a championship with no more appeal afford themselves. At most half (we’re being generous) of the salary that a Belaïli receives? Unfair, but that’s also our sport, where we only lend to the rich.