Sarkozy's jogging

This article in The Times was so funny! The french intellectuals' reaction to the new President's penchant for jogging:

Le jogging, originally known as le footing and now more fashionably as le running, caught on in France, as elsewhere, in the 1980s and eight million claim to indulge. But Mr Sarkozy has rekindled a French suspicion that the habit is for self-centred individualists such as the Americans who popularised it. “Jogging is of course about performance and individualism, values that are traditionally ascribed to the Right,” Odile Baudrier, editor of V02 magazine, a sports publication, told Libération. Patrick Mignon, a sports sociologist, noted that French intellectuals had always held sport in contempt, while totalitarian regimes cultivated physical fitness.

I have even written a comment on this Times article, look for the one of the only positive comments on this article in a sea of defensive American responses...

I met a french guy this week who told me he though it was really embarrassing that Sarkozy only speaks French, apparently he can't speak a word of English.