Nelson Monfort (born on 12 March 1953 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a television host and sports journalist on France Televisions.
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He commented on the figure skating and interviewed athletes just after their competition. Among his most famous interviews are that of Martina Navratilova in 1987,[1] Carl Lewis, Bill Clinton at Roland Garros in 2001 and sprinter Michael Johnson during the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
He presented Le Journal des Sports during the 1980s-1990s on FR3, then the program Les Mélodies de Nelson on Radio Classique on Saturday and Sunday from 12:00am to 1:00pm and wrote articles in Le Figaro.
In September 2008, he became a columnist of le Club Sports on Europe 1, alongside Alexandre Delpérier.
He also presents television game shows: Jeux sans frontières in 1999 with Fabienne Égal, Une semaine chrono in 2006 with Pierre Mathieu and Intervilles with Philippe Candeloro.[2]
In June 2009, he was criticized by the Society of Journalists of France Télévisions for having received a Mickey Mouse on his show Tennis Club and therefore having promoted Disneyland.[3]
He is the son of American Colonel Nelson Monfort Senior and was a student at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.
He has two children named Isaure and Victoria, with his wife Dominique.
In February 2009, he claimed he saw a UFO.[4]