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All sports athletes, professional or amateur, who arrive in France for a competition – as will shortly be the case for the Six Nations rugby tournament – will need to be vaccinated to enter a sports facility. The AFP agency learned this from government sources.
After the case of world tennis number 1 Novak Djokovic, expelled from Australia, the French government has specified that the rules of the vaccination pass, the French super green pass, will apply, as well as to amateurs and sportsmen based in France, also to foreigners who enter the country to compete.
The rule in France was clarified after the statements made last week by the Minister of Sport, Roxana Maracineanu, who had let us imagine the existence of a “bubble” for Roland-Garros tennis players that would have allowed them to receive unvaccinated athletes who come from abroad, as in the case of Djokovic. Currently, however, the government specifies, it is not necessary to be vaccinated to enter France but the vaccination pass (super green pass) will apply to anyone who enters a facility open to the public.
The next international competitions scheduled in France are a judo tournament, the Grand Slam (February 5-6) and the Six Nations tournament (February 5 – March 19).
