Former Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the sole candidate, has been elected Πresident of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) for a four-year term, less than a year after the Paris Olympic Games. She succeeds David Lappartient as head of the CNOSF.

The result of the election at the general assembly of the organization was never in doubt, as the former minister (2022–2024) ran unopposed after her rival, Didier Séminet, withdrew from the race on June 7. At 47, she becomes the second woman to hold the position after Brigitte Henriques (2021–2023), and the first former minister to do so since the CNOSF was established in 1972.

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra is thus returning to a position of responsibility in French sport nine months after leaving the government. She will also sit on the board of directors of the organizing committee for the 2030 Winter Olympic Games.

The former professional tennis player, now 47, previously served as Director General of the French Tennis Federation from 2021 to 2022 before joining the government as Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games—and briefly—as Minister of National Education and Youth.

“I am honored by the trust placed in me. It is a great responsibility, and we have an immense duty: to make the CNOSF a strong, useful, modern institution focused on the future. This mandate will be one of unity, action, and boldness. I want to be the president of all federations, all volunteers, educators, leaders, and athletes who carry sport forward every day across our country. Our ambition is clear: to make sport a pillar of our society, to defend its place in public debate, to simplify life for our organizations, and to lay solid foundations for the sport of tomorrow,” she said.