Career
In the 100 and 200m. individual men"s final he finished fifth with times of 10.16 and 20.51 seconds respectively. Earlier in 1968 he had equalled Armin Hary"s eight-year-old European record of 10.0 seconds. He also was minister of Youths and Sports under Michel Rocard in 1988 in France and he had the honour of starting the 24-hour Le Mans race.
He is an active freemason.