New chapter in the case of the disqualification of Helen Congost which deprived him of winning his well-deserved bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. OKDIARIO has learned that the Spanish athlete confided in Jean-Louis Dupontprestigious lawyer who changed European football with case bosmanto recover its metal. The Belgian lawyer is also a defender of the creation of the Super Leaguethe alternative club competition which offers Florentino Perez.
Elena Congost lost her bronze medal on September 9 due to an act of good faith that ended up disqualifying her from the championship. The athlete from Castelldefelswho suffers from a visual impairment, was three minutes ahead of his rival when he let go of his guide rope just a few meters from the finish line. The Spaniard’s gesture of assistance that prevented her from winning the medal was due to the severe cramps of the man accompanying her.
Congost, who said she was disqualified because she “was a person,” devastated her emotionally and, full of tears, denounced the decision, saying it was a reflexive act of pure humanity and that it had only lasted a second. Today, two weeks later, as this newspaper was able to confirm, he has handed the file over to Dupont, the same man who, on December 15, 1995, revolutionized football by Europe with the resolution of the Bosman affair.
Former Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman has filed a complaint against LiegeAt Federation Belgian football now UEFA in front of him Court of Justice of the European Union for limiting his freedom of action as a citizen of EU at the end of his contract with his club, forcing the Union of European Football Associations to develop several of its standards so that they comply with European legislation.
The sentence of Bosman case
The Court of Justice of the EU based in Luxembourg issued a decision declaring transfer compensation and foreigner quotas illegal when applied to EU citizens, knowing that such rules de facto prevented the free signing of contracts between players and contradicted European labour and trade regulations.
Jean-Marc Bosman’s defense, led by Dupont, who will now take charge of Elena Congost’s case, proposed that the Title III of the Treaty of Rome of 25 March 1957. This treaty establishes the free movement of European workers within EU countries, which would prohibit national and international sports associations or federations from establishing, in their respective regulations, rules limiting the access of European citizens to tournaments organised within the EU. the EU.
Furthermore, it would prohibit football clubs from demanding payment of a sum of money when one of their players is hired by a new employing club when the initial contract has already expired. In both cases, Bosman’s legal position was that the rules of the Belgian Football Association and UEFA infringed his rights as an employee to freedom of contract and his right to work.
The paths of Elena Congost and the eminence that is Dupont have come together to beat nothing more and nothing less than the International Paralympic Committeewhich, together with this controversial rule, prevented the Catalan from winning the bronze medal. “The next athlete was three minutes behind me. “There was no kind of help or benefit,” the athlete said in a later appearance.
The controversial rule that prevented Elena Congost from winning bronze
Congost thus described his disqualification as “unfair” and assured that he had already covered “a mountain of kilometers” by going “little by little” because his guide could no longer lower his personal record to 3 hours and 48 seconds. Article 7.9.5 of the standard provides for disqualification for unhooking the strap, at any time, and this is what Dupont and Dupont now want to dismantle.
