The National Institute of Youth and Popular Education has recorded a increase of around 5% in sports licenses in Franceat the start of the 2024-2025 school year. While table tennis (+23%), badminton (+19%) or fencing (+19%) are experiencing a real Paris 2024 effect, this is not the case for all disciplines. Swimming is surprisingly one of the worst performers, despite seven French medals during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, including the four titles by Léon Marchand, and fourteen podiums at the Paralympic Games. "The French Swimming Federation would see a near stagnationannual license purchases » according to the INJEP study, which evokes a "saturation of swimming pools" as a potential explanation. The impact of Paris 2024 also appears limited for the football, tennis, equestrian, basketball and rugby federations with "increases not exceeding 5%". What about handball (silver medal for the women's team) or boxing (three medals)? The answer will have to wait since the data from both federations "could not be validated" according to INJEP.
