Although he has always fought in the flyweight category, Brahim Asloum is a heavyweight in boxing and French sport, whose words are listened to and respected. And this Tuesday on the L’Equipe Channel, it was the full weight of these words that he used to denounce the racist and sexist attacks which targeted Sarah Ourahmoune, to the point of pushing her to give up running for co-presidency, with Dominique Nato, from the French boxing federation.
“I’m a little ashamed, I’m in pain… Frankly, I’m in pain,” reacted the former world champion and Olympic champion in 2000. 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. 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 say to Sarah federation housekeeper, his Arabic… »
“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,” continued Asloum. Addressing those who insulted him, he said: “but tell me who do you think you are? “. “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. »
“Sarah appears in practically every instance,” he recalled. 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. »
The elections for the head of the French federation will take place on December 14. Two lists present themselves: that of the outgoing president Dominique Nato (66 years old) now alone and elected since 2020 after having been DTN for a long time and that of the Rio Olympic champion in 2016 Estelle Mossely.
