D – 2 in Bangkok before the opening of the 17th edition of SportAccord, organized from April 15 to 20, 2018 at the Centara Grand & Convention Center in the Thai capital. The event promises to be historic, with the announced participation of more than 1500 delegates representing the entire international sports movement, Olympic or not. Among them, Jacques Fontaine. The president of the International Squash Federation (WSF) will stop in Bangkok on his way back from Australia, where he is attending the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast this week. His discipline is on the competition program in Queensland. The tournament takes place in a unique location, in a film studio in Oxenford. A court has been set up on a musical stage. For Jacques Fontaine, proof that squash can be played in the most unexpected places, without having to increase the organizational budget by building expensive equipment. The French leader has never made a secret of it: the priority of his mandate is to have squash accepted for the Paris Games in 2024, after three consecutive failures. The Olympic squash campaign has already started. It will continue next week at SportAccord. Jacques Fontaine will be able to meet a strong delegation from Paris 2024, led by Tony Estanguet, the president of the organizing committee.
— Published on April 13, 2018
