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Tauziat's Former Coach Convicted

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Nathalie is in trouble:
French federation will ask Tauziat to resign

Nathalie Tauziat will be asked to step down from the French tennis federation's (FFT) management committee after she testified in favour of former coach Regis de Camaret who was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday for raping young female players.

Reuters –



"Nathalie Tauziat's statement at the trial was deeply disturbing. On Monday we will ask her to resign from the management committee," FFT director general Gilbert Ysern told reporters on Saturday.
Tauziat, a former world number three who reached the Wimbledon final in 1998, told a Lyon court that she had not seen anything at the time De Camaret was coaching and that she did not believe his accusers, especially her former doubles partner Isabelle Demongeot.
De Camaret, now 70, was convicted of raping two female players then aged 12 and 13.
Some 20 of his former pupils have accused him of rape, attempted rape or fondling between 1977 and 1989.
The statute of limitations had run out on all but two, who accused De Camaret of rape or attempted rape.​
http://eurosport.yahoo.com/news/tennis-french-federation-will-ask-tauziat-resign-123208421.html
 
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Tauziat,a bitch til the end . . .
 
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How can she just plant a knife in the backs of her former colleagues, one of them her former doubles partner at that? To say that she never noticed anything - hard to believe, but ok, if she really didn't notice anything she didn't notice anything. But to say that she doesn't believe those players, thus calling them liars, is just about as low as it gets. :(
 
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How can she just plant a knife in the backs of her former colleagues, one of them her former doubles partner at that?
Tauziat and Demongeot were France's #1 & #2 players at the end of the 80s. Both were coached by de Camaret (below)



Tauziat & Demongeot played doubles together regularly and won many WTA doubles titles together and even qualified once for the YEC in the Madison Square Garden.
 
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The *bombshell* in Demongeot's book is that Tauziat knew about it, but never did anything and always denied it. Tauziat sued Demongeot for defamation over this, which is much more disgusting that what she just did. I mean, suing a former friend and victim of sexual abuse? The judge ruled that it was a ridiculous lawsuit and Tauziat had to pay a fine for wasting the court's time!

Though that in a way, perhaps it explains a lot of things about Tauziat, and her antisocial behavior. Maybe her life has a very dark side, and she's been under the control of a psychopath for over a decade. Who knows just how it affected her mind, and how she's still affected today.
 
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Finally.Too bad it happens only now cause for most of these women (around 15-20 including Demongeot who was brave enough to bring it to the news a long time ago and got stigmatized for years)it was too late.
Hopefully it will send a signal to other coaches using their position to force some young girls (and boys)to do things they don't want to;

As for Nathalie : I understand her loyalty toward someone who followed her during her whole career but there is no way she wasn't aware of what happened all those years (even the FFT got informed of a case at one point but they could do nothing cause the Camaret's structure was private).It was bad enough to know and do nothing, when the stuff got public she should have at least supported the girls (especially Demongeot)instead of her coach.
 
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I don't think Tauziat had any choice but to keep the same story at this point. If not, it would be an admission she lied about the whole thing for almost 20 years now and she would lose face and her reputation. (Though that by sticking with De Camaret at this point, her reputation is going down too, so I guess she's in a no-win situation). Demongeot seems to suggest in the youtube video that Tauziat is still brainwashed or manipulated by de Camaret.

I'm sure there is a lot more to the story, so who knows what's really going on with Tauziat. They were in business together I believe so I don't think it was in her interest that the truth comes out.

If de Camaret systematically raped all the girls that he was coaching, I think we can all make 2 + 2 = 4 with Tauziat. The more I think about it, the more I understand the anger coming out of her book. She is especially angry against all the people who are in a happy relationship. She bashes Mauresmo for being on the cover of Paris Match with her girlfriend, she slams Halard because her husband is very dedicated to her, she rolls her eyes at Kournikova for having 2 boyfriends or something, etc. I don't think a personality trait can explain all that anger.
 
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Maybe Tauziat thought he was trying to save the girls from predatory lesbianism.
 
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People have to say what they believe in trials, it doesn't mean that they will believe the truth. While it seems clear that this guy did do these things, I don't automatically assume that Tauziat believes that he did these things. I think that she was not molested by him, because he would have probably targeted one girl in each group. Of course it's a bit insensitive to say that you think the other girls are lying, but it's more or less what believing that he didn't do it comes to, except that it's more PC to just say that you didn't think he did that and not mention that you think the other people aren't telling the truth.

While Isabelle may have thought that Nathalie must have seen what was happening, this is not necessarily the case. She might have not connected the dots together.

Whether she is likeable or not is not important, the only issue for me is whether she believes what she is saying, i.e. whether she is telling what she thinks is the truth. If she believes it so be it. There are plenty of other people who saw what happened but there were even more who were unaware of what was happening, and it seems like she was one of those despite being coached by him. I don't think Sampras was lying either when he defended his coach Fischer. He didn't believe the accusations.
 
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HowardH: at some point, common sense enters the picture. Just why would 20 people falsely accuse him, especially as most of them have nothing to gain as it's been so long ago? It would be the biggest conspiracy on earth against one individual. Plus, Demongeot wrote a detailed account about her life, her struggles, and her agressions. What she wrote in her book clearly matches reality for those who knew her, so why would the parts about being raped be false? Again, it would be a massive conspiracy.

So even if we start with the idea that Tauziat completely ignored what was going on, like every human on earth, she has the ability to make logical deductions. And any human on earth capable of logical reasonings would have concluded a long time ago that de Camaret is a serial rapist. During the trial, de Camaret did admit he inappropriately touched some players, but then Tauziat still claims it doesn't make any difference in her eyes. She is clearly in denial mode.

Plus, here's what Demongeot alleges:

"Le jour où je me suis exprimée face à Nathalie, j'ai dit que j'avais subi des viols répétés de la part de mon entraîneur et que je voulais partir (...) Elle m'a répondu que ce n'était pas son problème, que c'était le meilleur entraîneur du monde et qu'elle allait continuer à travailler avec lui." Correction on what I wrote earlier: it's not in her book, but in an interview with L'Equipe. Translation: "The day I told Nathalie, that I was raped multiple times, she answered that it wasn't her problem, that he was the best coach in the world and that she would keep working with him". Tauziat sued her for this. And there are 2 other players (Amiach and Tangier) that Tauziat sued as well because they supported Demongeot over this. It seems like the entire world sees the world differently than Tauziat is.

By the way, just as I suspected, this article reveals De Camaret is still Tauziat's financial partner: http://www.sudouest.fr/2012/11/21/nathalie-tauziat-n-a-rien-vu-rien-entendu-884697-7.php
 
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just for saying, it's 'easy' NOT TO see when someone is molested if they act normally as if nothing happened , are ashamed and won't tell etc.. when there's no reason to be suspicious, you won't believe it ...until it comes out of the blue (which in this case desn't apply to Tauziat who keeps being blindfolded, though I can understand , De Camaret was prety much everything for her and her world would crumble (already has probably ..) if she admitted what he did... I'm not blaming Demongeot nor defending Tauziat, this is obviously a horrible story/situation , and I've known for a while some things like these happen/ned in French tennis. Good to see it's finally coming out . Hopefully other potential victims of this kind of situations won't hesitate to denunciate , but obviously when you are under someone's influence and you owe him for your career and so on it's really tough to accuse them , especially when you spend all your time in a training , coaching context and dont have your family around..
 
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