Career
As of February 2013, Eloi is ranked northern 88 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He is also right-handed, and uses the attacking grip and Tibhar 4S blade.
Eloi made his official debut at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he competed only in the men"s doubles tournament.
The French pair, however, lost the quarterfinal match to the Chinese duo Lü Lin and Wang Tao, with a set score of 1–3. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Eloi and Gatien repeated their position in the men"s doubles tournament, when the French pair lost for the second time to former West German duo and Olympic silver medalists Jörg Roßkopf and Steffen Fetzner in the quarterfinal match, receiving a unanimous set score of 0–3.
Eloi and Legout defeated Sweden"s Jörgen Persson and January-Ove Waldner in the first round of the knock-out stage, before losing out their next match to the formidable Chinese duo Wang Liqin and Yan Senator, with a unanimous set score of 0–3. Being chosen as one of the top 16 seeded players, Eloi received a bye in the preliminary pool stage of the men"s singles, before beating South of Korea"s Lee Chul-Seung in his first match.
He progressed to the second round, but narrowly lost to China"s Liu Guoliang, with a final set score of 2–3.
Eight years after competing in his last Olympics, Eloi qualified for his fourth French team, as a 38-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving an allocated spot from the Final World Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary. He defeated Egypt"s Ahmed Saleh in the first round of the men"s singles tournament, before narrowly losing out his next match to Japan"s June Mizutani, with a set score of 3–4.