{"id":154337,"date":"2026-07-09T22:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154337"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:16:23","slug":"macrons-sports-protectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154337","title":{"rendered":"Macron&#8217;s sports protectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>French president and dedicated soccer fan Emmanuel Macron is having himself a day. He <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emmanuelmacron\/status\/2075270903185707205?s=46&amp;t=s_XAGl588mWkbm08fw5Gsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended the Tour de France<\/a>in the Pyrenees earlier Thursday, hours before France&#8217;s World Cup quarterfinal against Morocco. French outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/cyclisme\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-2026-la-confidence-de-pogacar-a-macron-sur-l-avenir-brillant-de-seixas_AV-202607090722.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RMC Sport reported<\/a> that shortly after the cycling stage finished, Macron urged star French rider Paul Seixas to remain with his team: French outfit Decathlon CMA CGM. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time Macron has tried to influence a French star to stay with their French team \u2014 he lobbied Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 to remain at his club Paris Saint-Germain and not transfer to Real Madrid &#8230; a battle he eventually lost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/07\/09\/world-cup-2026\/emmanuel-macron-tour-de-france-world-cup-00992527\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>Politics, World Cup<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics French president and dedicated soccer fan Emmanuel Macron is having himself a day. He attended the Tour de Francein the Pyrenees earlier Thursday, hours before France&#8217;s World Cup&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}