Let's not revolve around the subject: " Le padel will be an Olympic Sport ”. Luigi Carraro, President of the International Federation of Padel moreover tells us clearly and without detour: " This is a clear goal for me to achieve. It's part of my mission. It absolutely must not fall into anonymity ».

Today, the padel is all the rage, but tomorrow will it return to the sport it was in the 90s and 2000s or will it become a popular sport known to all? The Olympic Games could thus offer the padel its letters of nobility all over the world. The stakes are therefore particularly high for all players and enthusiasts of this sport.

The Achilles heel of the padel : It was practiced mainly in Spain or Argentina. For the Olympic Games, we had to forget. His salvation could only come by internationalizing.

And precisely, its strength today is its development on all continents such as Japan, Russia, India, the United States, Australia, Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Greece ....

But beware of too much confidence. " We must not skip the steps. There is a lot of work to be done around the padel in France to offer this sport the Olympic Games. We must work in the development of sport with clubs, in training, frame the elite circuit and finally allow this sport to be known to the general public. »Tempers Hubert Picquier, the elected official in charge of padel for the FFT.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.