Roxana Maracineanu
[13] In March 2007, at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, she was a consultant for France Télévisions alongside Alexandre Boyon and Michel Rousseau, and for L'Équipe TV.For the next major competition, at the 2015 Kazan World Championships, the France Télévisions group, wishing to reform the duo Philippe Lucas and Laure Manaudou, did not renew her contract.It rewards "a journalist, professional, audiovisual commentator, with the appreciated knowledge and the judgment which, in its interventions on the sport, will be expressed with the constant concern to respect the rules of the French language".[17] In July 2018 Prime Minister Édouard Philippe asked her to participate in an interministerial mission (between Education and Sports) to find ways to improve swimming in France's primary schools.[19] In January 2020, Maracineanu successfully forced the resignation of Didier Gailhaguet, the president of the French Federation of Ice Sports, over what she considered his failure to appropriately handle sexual abuse allegations within the sport of figure skating, following allegations by retired pairs skater Sarah Abitbol against her former coach Gilles Beyer, a Gailhaguet ally.[20] Maracineanu subsequently ordered a broad investigation of sexual abuse in French sporting culture that resulted in over 400 individuals being accused of wrongdoing.