00:01Judo star Teddy Rinna wants to be the next president of France.
00:05The 37-year-old Olympic champion announced his bid on social media on Monday.
00:12The news comes as polls show the French public largely split between the far-left candidate
00:18Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the far-right Marine Le Pen.
00:23Rinna says he's positioning himself as neither right-wing nor left-wing.
00:28Instead he says he wants to be a president who brings people together.
00:34Campaigning for next year's election is taking place in a tense social climate
00:38with weekly protest marches drawing huge crowds across the country.
00:44I'm running for president to show that we can get France back on its feet, Rinna said.
00:50We're capable of achieving great things together.
00:53The five-time Olympic gold medalist was born in the French territory of Guadeloupe
00:59and raised in Paris.
01:01He needs signatures from 500 elected officials in order to stand.
01:06The Madness of Guadeloupe
01:06A couple of days after he had an internized campaign that created구
01:07with a stone-cut-box-box.
01:07Vietnam legend is a part of the United States of Guadeloupe
01:07The Madness of Guadeloupe
01:08The Madness of Guadeloupe
01:08The Madness of Guadeloupe
