Following the violent hazing incident, the Pôle France team withdraws from the French National 1 Championship competiton.
The Pôle France, based at INSEP, announced on a Tuesday that its team was withdrawing from the French N1 Championship competition, the 3rd national level, following precautionary measures taken against several players.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Pôle France Basketball – Yvan Mainini, based at the National Institute of Sport afair, Expertise and Performance (INSEP) in the Bois de Vincennes, just announced that its team was withdrawing from the French National 1 Men’s Championship competition for the current season, ” the following precautionary measures taken concerning several players (from the Pôle) . (…) A decision taken in order to protect the physical integrity of the young players and to preserve the sporting fairness of the competition .”
According to information from the website BeBasket , which was also reported on our site today, several new recruits to the French National Training Center (Pôle France) were victims of violence during a hazing ritual in mid of September. An administrative investigation has been launched over it, and initially, one player was expelled from the Pôle and several others were suspended. Blows were reportedly exchanged during this hazing session, and one of the victims suffered internal injury.
The Pôle France did not want to solicit the U18 youngsters players
The first three National 1 matches for the Pôle France team had already been postponed to further notices. According to the press release, ” No solution currently exists to guarantee the Pôle France team’s continued participation (…) without placing excessive demands on the youngest players team, particularly those also competing in the French U18 Elite Championship competition. Such situation would expose them to an accumulation of matches and sporting and physical constraints that the Federation should considers incompatible with protecting their physical well-being .”
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Only the men’s N1 team has been withdrawn from its league. The other teams continue their competition: the U18 Elite team for the men, and the Ligue 2 and Nationale 1 teams for the women.
