{"id":9181,"date":"2024-08-09T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redaction.oxygene-benin.bj\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2024-08-09T21:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:46:04","slug":"jo-paris-2024-cetait-hier-quand-le-togo-boycottait-les-jeux-olympiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redaction.oxygene-benin.bj\/?p=9181","title":{"rendered":"JO Paris 2024 – C\u2019\u00e9tait hier: Quand le Togo boycottait les Jeux olympiques\u2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr\u00e8s une premi\u00e8re participation aux JO en 1972, le Togo d\u00e9cide de boycotter les deux olympiades suivantes. Retour sur cet \u00e9pisode fort de l\u2019histoire sportive du pays.<\/b><\/p>\n

A peine entr\u00e9 dans le concert des nations olympiques -\u00e0 Munich, en 1972- que d\u00e9j\u00e0, le Togo sort du cercle des participants. En 1976, la lutte contre l\u2019apartheid fait rage partout dans le monde et l\u2019Afrique en est partie prenante.<\/span><\/p>\n

Au m\u00eame moment, Montr\u00e9al s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 accueillir la 21\u00e8me olympiade. Sauf que vingt-deux nations africaines, parmi lesquelles le Togo, ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de ne pas y participer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ce boycott, qui ne concerne pas que l\u2019Afrique, trouve ses racines dans la participation de la Nouvelle-Z\u00e9lande \u00e0 un match de rugby dans l\u2019Afrique du Sud de l\u2019apartheid.<\/span><\/p>\n

De nombreux pays reprochent \u00e0 la nation oc\u00e9anienne d\u2019avoir envoy\u00e9 les All-Blacks \u00e0 Johannesburg et en protestation, se retirent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Le gouvernement togolais suit naturellement le mouvement malgr\u00e9 les pr\u00e9paratifs effectu\u00e9s par le Comit\u00e9 National Olympique Togolais (ancien nom du CNO-TOGO) sous la pr\u00e9sidence de Feu Godfried Eku\u00e9, premier Pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quatre ans plus tard, le Togo est de nouveau associ\u00e9 \u00e0 un nouveau boycott, suscit\u00e9 cette fois par les Etats-Unis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Il est li\u00e9 \u00e0 l’invasion de l’Afghanistan par l’URSS en d\u00e9cembre 1979, une action militaire qui n’est du go\u00fbt ni des Am\u00e9ricains ni de leur Pr\u00e9sident Jimmy Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Le CNOT dirig\u00e9 par Feu Anani Mathia, d\u00e9cide, cette fois encore, de ne pas envoyer d’athl\u00e8tes \u00e0 Moscou. Une cinquantaine de pays ont suivi cet appel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Directeur certifi\u00e9 de cours de la Solidarit\u00e9 Olympique\/CIO et Journaliste sportif \u00e9m\u00e9rite, le doyen Maurice Mana Palanga se souvient : \u201c J\u2019\u00e9tais sur la liste des journalistes accr\u00e9dit\u00e9s pour couvrir ces jeux. Mais au dernier moment\u00a0 on n\u2019y est pas all\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n

Petite consolation, celui que la jeune g\u00e9n\u00e9ration a surnomm\u00e9 \u2018\u2019le Patriarche\u2019\u2019 effectuera quand m\u00eame le voyage \u00e0 Moscou\u2026 mais cinq ans plus tard.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00ab J\u2019\u00e9tais triste de ne pas conna\u00eetre le pays de <\/span>L\u00e9nine. Mais en 1985, je faisais partie de la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation togolaise \u00e0 Moscou pour le Festival mondial de la Jeunesse.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A ma <\/span>grande surprise,<\/span> on m\u2019a remis une breloque en bronze comm\u00e9morative \u00e0 l\u2019effigie des JO de Moscou, un objet que j\u2019aurais d\u00fb recevoir en 1980\u00a0\u00bb, se r\u00e9jouit-il.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Naturellement, ces deux boycotts ont priv\u00e9 plusieurs athl\u00e8tes togolais d\u2019une exp\u00e9rience sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale, notamment au tennis de table, au saut \u00e0 la perche et en boxe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Qui sait s\u2019ils n\u2019auraient pas d\u00e9croch\u00e9 cette premi\u00e8re m\u00e9daille olympique, apr\u00e8s laquelle le Togo court toujours depuis\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Avec Daniel Dodjagni<\/b><\/p>\n

Gakogoe.tg<\/b><\/p>\n

#PARISMEDIAS2024<\/b><\/p>\n

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