(Adnkronos) – French Olympic judo champion, Teddy Riner, is running for president in France. Riner himself announced it to ‘Le Parisien’. The 37-year-old Olympic champion does not define himself as “neither right nor left” and aspires to become the “president who unites”: “I am a candidate to say that we can lift France up,” Riner emphasizes. “Resignation is not an option. Faced with the difficulties of our country, it is time to take responsibility.”
<3My name is Teddy Riner and today I want to tell you, looking you in the eye: I am a candidate for the 2027 presidential elections,” he emphasizes in a video on ‘X’. “I know they will say I am crazy, that I don’t have the codes, that I have never been involved in politics. Fighting has always been a part of me. I know what it means to fight, to fall, and to get back up every time,” added the judoka, still active, sitting in front of a library, wearing a white shirt, a dark jacket, and a French flag.
