I am French & regular visitor to this website.
Very Bad move from Mekhissi & FFA to sponsor the claim - France & Britain come to mind as being notorious to go for the unsporty & borderline appeals to rake a meaningless medal...
syndrom of the former great struggling for medals if you ask me although realistically most athletics bodies would prob do the same.
Nevertheless I am absolutely astonished that these events just opens to floodgates for the type of RACISM seen on this thread for the French population & France.
These actions are from 1 over-ambitious athlete notorious for his lack of ethics & 1 or 2 (and thats it) Federation officials with no scruples....
...and ultimately the Brojos deliberately leave these Racist posts with the cheek of lecturing on Olympic values.
As most users pointed out, ringing Lavillenie into this is pathetic & just French bashing. He always congratulated he Brazilian & was happy with his own performance & did not find excuses - but not the booing during the last jump nor at medal ceremony which was totally uncalled for & has nothing to do in either Athletics or the Olympic movement.