"I am responsible and guilty". This is how Charles BIETRY announces his resignation from the presidency of the Paris Saint Germain football club. In addition to the poor results of the team he fully assumes, he concedes that his design and philosophy of the sport are probably not in line with a large professional club.
En direct de la régie technique installée à Sydney, Charles Biétry, directeur des sports de France Télévision, décrit la grille des programmes mis en place par la télévision publique française pour la diffusion des épreuves sportives des Jeux Olympiques d'été. Répondant aux questions des journalistes Céline Géraud et Alexandre Boyon, il prédit, et espère, que Marion Jones décrochera plusieurs médailles d'or.
Charles BIETRY takes the place of Michel DENISOT at the head of the PSG football club. At the same time, he gave him his position as Canal Plus’s sports director.
AFP sports journalist Charles BIETRY reports round by round on a boxing match. Live from the room where the match between GratienTonna and Jean Matéo takes place, he dictates by phone the comment that a secretary transcribes. It is this dispatch which is transmitted by teletypewriter to all the editorial offices.
Charles BIETRY is the director of sports at AFP. He explains on set how the media coverage of sporting events within the agency works. He gives the example of the semi-final of the Davis Cup in Australia where two special envoys, one of English language and the other of French language, took charge with a team of technicians to send by teletype the results as the game progressed. The agency works with approximately 15,000 clients worldwide, including print, radio and television media.
Charles BIETRY looks back at the tragic events of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. A correspondent for the AFP news agency, he was the first to understand that the hostage taking of Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terrorist commando, Black September, had come to a tragic end. He says he met a man who announced the death of all the hostages, while the whole world believed them alive.