Sans Filtre is a new media present on the web and social networks that features stories of athletes and pro-gamers in the first person.

At Sans Filtre, we want to go beyond the performer and focus on the human to allow fans "to (better) know their favorite athletes through exclusive content thought and created by them."

Our current platform: www.sans-filtre.fr

Did you know that the french NBA player Boris Diaw is an accomplished photographer? That the Manchester United player Juan Mata gives away part of his salary to charities? No.

On the other hand, you know the amount of Neymar's transfer to PSG, the intimate escapades of Tiger Woods or the latest buzz in the sports industry. As fans and compulsive consumers of sports-branded content, we quickly had to face the fact that it was hard to find our happiness on the web apart from results, game summaries or interviews often superficial, too mechanical and too conventional from the players.

In France, journalists have a tendency to talk about the money in the sports industry, players’ bad behaviors, and to criticize everything they can without being constructive.

However, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the reality is very different: sport is not only treated in a negative or accounting aspect (results) and the articles have much more substance. Athletes appear deeper and more authentic. So, together, we said to ourselves: why not create this media we dream of?

It was therefore necessary to create this media which corresponded to us but which would especially answer the sport fans’ expectations. Before we started, we made an inventory that allowed us to objectively identify the defects of the media market on the web:

- The enormous journalistic barrier between athletes and readers.

- The overwhelming majority of content like news or results.

- The negative image of athletes who are seen under the prism of money or bad behavior in the media.

- The lack of a credible expression platform for athletes who would like to tell about themselves in depth, which is not currently offered by leading social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat.

We had to break this journalistic barrier with a new media where journalists would fade for the benefit of the word of the athletes. We wanted to offer a platform with stories of athletes in the first person. In March 2017, Sans Filtre was born in our heads and was born on your screens a few months later.

Sans Filtre for us has several meanings:

- Abolition of the journalistic barrier between sportsmen and fans with stories in the first person

- Possibility for athletes to speak on topics of their choice without being influenced, neither in the choice of the subjects nor in their answers; no cut or restriction in terms of length, whether the article is 1000 or 8000 words.

On Sans Filtre we find written content & videos on their path to get to the top level, their passions outside of sports, their associative & humanitarian commitments, their societal positions and of course sports-related topics in which athletes share with the reader what they feel at the time of a competition.

Regardless they are, men, women, disabled, valid, what matters is the message of each one.

We attach a particular interest in the world of eSport by trying to make known the players (progamer, manager, coach, caster, influencer) of the competitive games like Fortnite, FIFA, League Of Legends, CS: GO ...

Since the beginning of the adventure, more than 100 athletes and pro-gamers from 25 different disciplines have already expressed themselves on Sans Filtre. Talented personalities such as Sandrine Gruda, Eugenie Le Sommer, Cédric Sorhaindo, Benjamin Nivet, NBK, Nisqy, Brak and Jean-Baptiste Alaize, as well as legends such as Malia Métella, Serge Betsen and Imanol Harinordoquy.

Sans Filtre, the webmedia that humanises sports & progaming information

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