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Charlotte Girard- Fabre
International Federation for Sports Officials (IFSO)
⏩ Advisor Senior - Management and Projects Expert - Olympian 2014/2018 - National and International Secretary General - President of the CC Sport of the Council of Europe - Forbes 2020 / HBR 2022
Frédéric Sadys
International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE)
⏩ Director of DESJEPS and the Executive Master High Performance Coach at INSEP - National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance, Member of Board ICCE
What is your opinion on the project?
"It is especially extremely necessary to be able to bring together stakeholders such as athletes, coaches and referees at the center of this fight against manipulation, something that has never been done. We felt boosted by this collective to work together, to truly create a sacred union to fight against manipulation. It is a project to continue."
What do you recommend to improve the whistleblowing policy in France?
The SIGNALE tool is useful even if we know that the tool can be complicated to use because it has a name common to another reporting platform. A simplification of reporting tools is necessary and expected. We must succeed in communicating about the existence of this platform.
“We need to make national and international federations aware that referees have a role to play. (…) We need to go to the grassroots, and why not have a short film for each referee’s licence to explain the manipulation of competitions.”
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What is the overall perception of this project?
It is still a bit early for a change in culture, but there is an awareness that is quite significant.
“When the project was presented, I found great motivation because we assume that if sport is corrupted, there will be no more sport”.
The idea is to integrate this concept (manipulation of sports competitions) into the training of high-level coachesso that they are made aware and that they will be able to know the reporting tools that exist to combat this phenomenon.
If coaches do not have a tool, it will be very complicated not to move things forward.
Can the SIGNALE alert tool in France be improved?
It is complicated, it is a new tool, we must take ownership of it.
“I think that this tool has the merit of existing. We will always be ready to help you with its development and use”.
Even if it involves a change in culture among coaches?
Protecting your athlete is legitimate because there is a bond of trust between the coach and the athlete. I think there is a fear of sanction towards the athlete. Anonymity is an essential point of the tool and guaranteeing anonymity is important.
“The mentality changes because if corruption sets in, there is no more coach”.
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