What will change however is its approach to the associative

He took risks but he regrets not. Necessarily, since he won the top hand the election to the Presidency of the national Committee on Olympic and sport French (CNOSF) two heavy weight of the medium, Guy Drut and Jean-Luc Rougé. In the event of defeat, Denis Masseglia yet would matter to sink into bitterness. Since last October, in order to devote himself to this presidential campaign, the Associate Professor of physical sciences took, in sixty-one years old, his retirement from Education national and abandoned, after thirty-five years of teaching, its expensive classes lycée Jean-Perrin preparation in Marseille.

This man committed, integer, there comes down to a series of choices and renunciations. Former France of rowing champion, for example, abandoned rowing. Preferred it promotes excellence in all things hang up rather than become a range teammate and therefore less efficient. In 1971, after failing the oral of aggregation, he chooses to focus on studies over competitions, not without on its top a nice 10th place at the 1969 World Championships. That year, the Federation of rowing, Denis Masseglia take the reins twenty years later, has yet to sponsors. This is the time of the débrouille. The young athlete remembers to have traveled to Klagenfurt in the car of a journalist of the "Figaro", a full day route to compete the next day morning...

From the Olympic Seraglio

Fun recall these memories, the Marseillais is not nostalgic type, except at the time of L'estaque. The neighbourhood where he grew up, now invaded by pleasure craft, it does nothing: "my Estaque, is painted by Cézanne which it could be fun, a rod in hand", regrets, by slightly raising the singing tone of his voice. It is this port also getting that it into, teenager, on his father fishing vessel, for sports nights at sea. So, it would not leave his town for an empire, or the circle of rowing in Marseilles which he presides... to L'estaque.

Now installed in the enclosure of the Charléty Stadium, it will therefore continue to navigate between Paris and his village of Ensuès-la-back. Usual question. Vice-President of the CNOSF from 1993 to 2001, he then served the General Secretariat for four years. What will change, however, is its approach to the associative. The volunteer, who has always refused the proposals of the various parties will have to be more political and learn to deal with the Department and the IOC. He seems ready. From the Olympic Seraglio, the athlete knows everyone in the arena for having lived near Blackfoot them in the worst moments. In 2005, he made the trip to Singapore support the candidature of Paris 2012 OJ and crying with others to defeat. Stung in the bright, will, on his return, flying the white paper on sport, the proposals which are now to the estate of little charismatic Henri Sérandour vector.

Another shipyard, very personal one, the destiny of his daughter. After raising two boys, the Masseglia adopted a young Tahitienne, graphic design student, "a little rebellious these days", in which they promised to provide a bright future. There, he took risks. What he was never missed.