Jacques Verdier

Jacques Verdier (10 October 1957 - 15 December 2018) was a French sports journalist and writer for Midi Olympique.[1]

Jacques Verdier
Born10 October 1957
Saint-Gaudens, France
Died15 December 2018(2018-12-15) (aged 61)
Rouède, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationSports journalist
Writer

Biography

Jacques Verdier was born and spent his youth in Saint-Gaudens. He played rugby at Stade saint-gaudinois. He then left Saint-Gaudens to study literature at Toulouse.

In 1980, became a journalist in the editorial staff of Midi Olympique.[2] In 1997, he became editor-in-chief, succeeding Henri Nayrou.[3] From 2003 to 2017, he was a consultant for Radio Monte-Carlo. He participated in the Moscato Show every Thursday and Friday night and also spoke on the air on Sunday afternoons. On 31 December 2017, officially retired.

In 1997, he also became a novelist. He held a literary column every Sunday in ‘’La Dépêche du Midi’’ and a sports column every Monday in Midi Olympique. His latest book, Pyrénées vagabondes, published by Privat, was released in bookstores in 2018. He died suddenly on December 15, 2018 while jogging.[4]

gollark: Oddly generous people, or an accident, I guess.
gollark: Why would it be APd?
gollark: Madness.
gollark: Such is powers of two.
gollark: Someone was doing a 56G even-gen thing. I pointed out that this would in fact require several orders of magnitude more dragons than the universe's age in years.

References
  1. "Jacques Verdier raconte l'âme de Saint-Gaudens". LaDepeche.fr (in French). 2 November 2016.
  2. "Baisser de Rideau". Midi Olympique (in French). 2 January 2018.
  3. "Quand Midol vous fait voir la vie en jaune". Midi Olympique (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-12-30. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  4. "Jacques Verdier nous a quittés". RugbyRama (in French). 15 December 2018.
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