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Teddy Riner candidate for the presidential election: delusions of grandeur

The 37-year-old judoka does not rule out participating in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028

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The announcement of Teddy Riner's candidacy for the 2027 presidential election raises questions.
Aged 37, the judoka has not ruled out participating in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028, according to an interview with the daily Le Parisien.

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Teddy Riner announced his candidacy for the next presidential elections. He is 37 years old and gave an interview to the daily Le Parisien.

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Why now? For what? Has he gone crazy? Is this all serious? Far from winning support and creating a great wind of hope in an ocean of political mediocrity, the announcement on Monday of Teddy Riner's candidacy for the next presidential elections essentially raised many questions. One of which, inevitably, comes to mind for every sports lover: does this ambition mean the end of the career of the greatest judoka of all time? Hello the Élysée in 2027 and bye-bye Los Angeles in 2028, if we indulge in a hazardous shortcut...

Obviously, it is still much too early to make the judoka the favorite of the Ipsos BVA polls, and even less to make him the 9th different president of the Fifth Republic. However, during the interview he gave to the daily Le Parisien, the athlete, now 37 years old, did not draw a line under his last Olympic dance scheduled for 2028...

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Will Teddy Riner maintain his sporting career until the 2028 Olympic Games?
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Which political party or movement does he support?

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