After a dispute with the French gymnastics federation, the 17-year-old made history for Africa at the Paris Games in her home country.
PARIS — For years, Kaylia Nemour had pictured this moment: the routine of her life, the moment of her life, at the Olympics in her home country, with thousands of fans cheering her name. When she dismounted the uneven bars on Sunday with a release move named after her, a gold medal all but sealed, she immediately burst into tears.
That was about as close as she got to acknowledging the situation—she later briefly called it “complicated”—that has a 17-year-old born and raised 200 miles southwest of Paris competing for a country whose national language, Arabic, she does not speak.
But Nemour had had enough. In July 2022, she switched her nationality to Algeria, and the international gymnastics federation approved the move—but the French federation blocked it. An online petition circulated. In May ’23, France TV aired a report in which six former French gymnasts detailed abuse they had suffered while in the program.
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