Paris 2024: "disgusted" by his eviction from the Games, badista Ronan Labar demands an invitation to the International Federation guilty of an error

It was 7 p.m., Friday April 19, when Ronan Labar agreed to react to his grotesque situation. A few hours earlier, the International Badminton Federation (BWF) had published a press release to confirm that a calculation error made in 2023 had just been corrected.

This correction caused the modification of the world ranking and the loss, for his partner Lucas Corvée and him, of their ticket to the Olympics. Very affected, the badminton champion decided to fight. He wants “make noise” to recover the fruits of his labor.

How did you react to the press release from the International Federation?

Ronan Labar: We are disgusted, returned. The International Federation did not even send us its decision directly, which we learned about indirectly. No one tried to contact us. Their approach lacks humanity. These excuses, at the bottom of a press release, are too easy when our Olympic dream has perhaps just vanished because of him. We do not accept it and we do not accept its conclusions either.

In substance, is the classification error contestable?