Judo champion Teddy Riner shakes up French presidential race with surprise candidacy
The BBC's Hugh Schofield reports that France's judo champion Teddy Riner, 37 and winner of five Olympic golds, has entered the April presidential race with no party, no manifesto, and a slogan, "La France qu'on aime" — and that an Ifop poll found 22% could vote for him. Schofield expects the crowded centre field to splinter further, judges the campaign may fizzle, and quotes Jean-Luc Mélenchon's warning that "neither right nor left means not left".
