How Ivory Coast can become a sport nation? | Sylvere-Henry Cisse & Marie Josee Talou | TEDxPortBouet

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can the Ivory Coast become a

great sports nation within 15 years

this is the question we are asked

evening is what the ivory coast can

to enter top 10 of the great nations

sports around 2030

so to support my demonstration I

I was relying on two sports that are in

your collective memories

it’s about taekwondo and asceticism

regarding access actis me

lava started at a year zero

pomas and the year 2013 in 2013 there is a

year before there is an after because

2013 muriel love and win no she

silver medal actually she’s going

win at the world championships

Athletics on the 100m and 100m 200

m the dream will continue to the games

Olympic Games because we expect a lot

of the potential of Ivorian runners he

there is a certain youssef benitez who is going

to enter the Olympic Stadium

and it’s a very special moment

because you know the 100 m games

Olympic is something

incredible

in the 100 m it’s half of the planet

who stop there is this thing that is

hallucinating where for 10 seconds the

half of the planet stop for

watch the bouncing forts

and it’s youssef ben humanity that goes

enter the stadium first

Olympic

well before a certain usain bolt and the

honda very proud Ivorians then

there is a little wonder this

wonder

little disappointment because it happens

and 4th in the 100m with a 1000th delay

on the third

she will not be on this podium you

know what that makes 1 billion on a

100 m it represents a hair is the

the size of a hair that he missed

to win the bronze medal

this girl is marie josée

times they also arrive

fourth on the 200m at the games

olympic doriot it will not be on the

podium will not win a medal

luckily there has been this year this

year 2010 is we have them

world championships that took place

unfurled in london in this stadium

magic

mythical where I attended besides

some performances in 2012 and the

marie josée she will fill us because

that there is this 100 m where she will win

the silver medal

he’s going to reiterate the feat of a

certain muriel ah yeah ie

that she will win the medal

money also on the 200 m then

one wonders what is

passed for the Ivorians to perform

minds already maybe not what is

a sprint school but I have another

explanation

in fact the Ivorians as in

other sports performed in sprint

because they got rid of a

inferiority complex

this inferiority complex that made

that some sloppy africans a

complex vis-à-vis europe

vis-à-vis the West vis-à-vis the

rest of the world and he was pretty

inhibited for not indulging

completely and totally you will have

maybe hard to believe it

so what I propose to you now

it’s to check it with a big

champion she did not come with her

silver medals but she is there

with us I asked husband jealous of

to join us korite you knew him

a moment and if you knew him to

what time exactly do you recover

get rid of yes I remember that in

my debut was still

difficult and that I saw all these

people there who were the

Jamaican and American who is at

top and me I was telling myself but to which

moment I was going to get to that level

and I remember that in 2015

I was telling my coach when is that

I had made the diamond league for the

first time and he told me good

maybe one day and it did not last

I think two weeks after man

my manager finally I appreciate you

the diamond league of paris and tuba

I’ll go but if this diamond

league there what are the different

people who surrender the medal

little dairy like that I do not have the

course was this villa is

frankly said I do not want I ‘m scared and

image girl like she did not

said yes but I have not reached yet

this level and I got there I’m

reminds that these wounded for cabaret

who told me not the same at the level

that his daughters you can still

something good and I remember

that this game is beautiful game and I see

that’s a gun departure so if I have a

good start i think i can arrive

the first ones so it’s playing here I’m

reminds me that I did

it’s not explosive and I was

in front I ran ran until I saw

I was sixth militia I think and I

make my best record it was 11 06

said that if it’s the will I have more

one I arrived it was my coach

what are you thinking is good now I

know that these girls there I can

beat

it’s just that I’m training

really good and it’ll be okay it’s

like that from that moment that

I’m more afraid of being worried

what is extraordinary is that

we have a generation of athletes

a generation also of leader

I was able to see it this morning

with the different conferences

which we attended who no longer

this feeling of inferiority that

prevailed especially at our parents

because it is true that there was a time

the Americans seemed unbeatable

Jamaican seemed unbeatable

already lost a few thousandths

tenths of a second

just seeing these athletes entering

on the track but she was a lot

further marie-josée because he

could have done like some or

some of his colleagues exile

left the African continent for

to practice by thinking that maybe

the best coaches are in

Europe and the United States

no

stay on the East African continent

remained on the African continent and she

trained where to dakar at

dakar training center why

this choice

false says that at first I thought that this

coaching in europe give the

means to reach the same level of

challenges and when I came back in 2013 from

China I had the opportunity for the

chance to go to dakar this is a chance

because it was not obvious that I

be learned in the center of the page and

wipes list of wait god good doing

I arrived at dacca and I had the

opportunity to fall it’s a good

coach will win nothing and who took me

like his daughter and who knew that he

I missed and I know that in dacca

was training to ride the worlds that

was the world champion in the 400m

and who is driven by a putsch and

I ‘m just saying ok we’ll try

a year and we will see as we go

As I was training I was seeing

that I have advanced and that is that

I would not have done when I was in

China

I do them ipad on time and I think I

ask my coach my coaches me I

do not understand we have data we come to

is what others who are

three powers

what’s the secret and do not really dia

of secret already have to know that here in

Africa we all have on the beach and the

Sun

there are quite ya good

food and everything and if you go

counts those who are in europe during

in winter he looks for countries where he does

hot you see you train because

it’s not easy for a sprinter to

to be able to do his physical preparation

in the background I said to myself good already

there is that but I think there is also

the will of the person to be able

maybe show to those who are

there that being here in africa we

can be like them and I think he

is never that one they are really

good they are 1 but also in america

but she trains at home so

as hard as we are African

is training and I’m actually getting these

results there and I told the coach good

I think me after 1.1 show the

macho I will be the only African who

is training in africa and is coming to

does what souls do

weekend what Jamaican people background

and I think with what I’m going

products as work

the facts that are behind who think

that it is necessarily going to train

in europe that one will see that they will be

that here we have practically

evolve advanced and I know it will be

not easy it will be hard because there

will not really afford

we ‘re not really going to institutes but I

think with our small means that we have

with the will I have with you

also what you know about this sport

we will give ourselves the means to move forward and

I think the result itself is going

talk about him is different so that

these people there will want to come

train in africa and i think that

this year by my results it has

paid

because everyone thought that I

was training offered to the united states or

in France

they were surprised to know that

I was in Dakar and with a friend he

see nothing that is African

they are ten low if you do that the

bovine mosson trains with you so

I think I still have when

even we can not succeed my bet to

100% we will say enough con percent

because lyon what things that are going

is behind because there

now I will value the troops

from my country I ‘m going to train here and

bring these young people there who are behind

who do not have the opportunity to bach to

this training there of being able

excel like me too I excelled

to see even if they have no means

but I think with the motivation that

I will approach them with what my

coach will do and the others I think they

will have that desire to go tickle

already those who are there, we have

started with 6 gatti that you

know who is training with us and

it pays

and there are many who come

behind and I hope other countries

African

we do not fix and open and like us

will have shovels in Africa and I will

tell you a little story that

directly related to what happened

marie-josée this summer it was

especially during the final of the 200

meters was won by the

Dutch skipper I was with a

featured host from home yves de

mbella here in abidjan have dined in a

good restaurant of abidjan to attend

in his race

she came second with skipper

seine and marnaise who

dance around the stadium to celebrate

his victory he was unhappy for

she

yves de mbella what did he do I

you guaranteed he cried

he cried with sadness because she

did not win the gold medal

so now I’m going to ask

marie josée and good tokyo’s

win a gold medal at the games

Olympic

please do not leave in africa

with an Ivorian coach

and here I am well my companion is he

from mbella he was crying with him because

it’s possible it will be possible with the

everyone’s support pray them and

then good if you had a message to

give all young people nothing

who listens to us because we talked about

this feeling of inferiority

you have to sweep it you do not fear

American and Jamaican what

he must do in life

for this feeling disappear

it is necessary that already and begins to have

self-confidence because I

know it’s because at the beginning

I did not trust I did not think

that I could get to the same level

so his sons has already started to

have confidence in them

persevere especially because arrival

moment I think it will be months ago

there are times when I locked myself

in my room I cried because

I told myself that frankly said

I advance but I do not see the result

so after that it’s mostly

persevere running his dreams and then

give themselves the means to realize them

I did not have any means

necessary to be able to advance

silver medals there I have not had the

means I know how I went

with the coach but I did not say

that’s good as I can not afford

I give up I’ll look for something

easy thing you do not I had

I learn what I did

I had confidence that I had the

ability the way to get to that

so I did but I’m a lot of

things I did but I’m very much

of things and I gave myself the

ways to get there

so the price easiness marries a set has

said that it’s going to bring nothing to the

contrary to that it would be even

will not be better anyway even if

already we start as we say at the end

of the effort that is the comfort

so we give ourselves the means to arrive at

he gave way to advance

and I think there is no way that unless

you really give enough to what you

what you know you can do

no less than can manage to arrive

to the fact therefore to give oneself the means the

ability then to also of a lot

pray god because I think there is

that as we say help you the sky

help you

this title from 30 to 60 70 % giraffe to him

stay so that will come double champion

Vice World Sprint Champion

athletics is also the

taekwondo taekwondo which is very

important to you the Ivory Coast

with including jacques if it’s a rough

dhabi who respectively won

the gold medal and the medal

of money at the last Olympic Games of

rio is actually the success of these

athletes showed us the climb

power of Ivorian athletes in

this sport originally from korea but he

must actually expand this success to

black africa

there is west africa and even at

central africa since uncertain he

suffered the tag won in

taekwondo the silver medal in the

heavy category and if we come back

in the shadow of 2012 some we can come

obama in 2012 had won medal

money also in the category

heavy then and performance and

its performances can be attributed

especially the craze for sports

fighting near a general public

apart from the scream year this crime

which is a little apart in africa

because of the cost is also the

complexity of his installation the

complexity of technicality then in

taekwondo when in 2012 the federation

decided to impose a

electronic equipment for practice

of this sport

we would have thought that athletes

Africans was going to be diminished to

to be prevented it has it strictly

nothing was quite the contrary of the

national teams who train here

could perform

I speak of Niger I speak Gabon I

also talks about the Ivory Coast

so how to explain this result

this is due in particular to four

very important factors

the first factor is the federation

international organization that must be thanked

because she decided to organize on

the African continent

Competitions

plans for world competitions

first-rate

have you ever seen

African continent sum a championship

of the cycling world

not a world volleyball championship

not a world cup not on the other hand

we had here in Abidjan in 2013

a taekwondo world cup by

2014 teams

c is a section of the Francophone world

dakar and there are the open and open these are

these great reference tournaments of

were organized in Luxor

egypt in 2015 2016 which allowed the

black african athletes to be able to

return to these reference tournaments

then there is something

extraordinary we must thank the

continental federation

the African confederation of

taekwondo who did something

really very nice

she decided to apply a principle

of solidarity

I speak to you about the apparatus

electronic games

Olympic which is very expensive and well

she distribute it to each region to

each country so that they can

competitive like at the Olympic Games

that in the world championships this

which makes the athletes have everything from

Following was at the level of the best

after there is the federation is

also the governments that have

decided to install a policy of

high level perennial and finally there is the

structuring of the management

were of a professional level

which allowed for example to some

athletes like sheikh cisse or the

Gabonese obame for the Olympics

from 2016

as for them to be able to qualify

directly for the Olympiad without passing

by the qualifications to the nose and to the

beard of Western countries

I’m talking to you about what I’m talking about

simply the faculty that

Africans gave themselves growing up

at home by training at home and in

whereas they had all the

assets here to become the best at

world and I think reasonably

that with the potential of the coast

of ivory this country can become a big

country of sport should be added

something extremely important

and here I speak to public actors

from this country

it is essential to guarantee peace

that there is peace some

tranquility for the sportsman to puck

express yourself and that you can

won the medals

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