"Stigmatising a federation president is disgusting": French ice sports chief "Stigmatising a federation president, who is certainly not perfect but who is honest and hard-working, is disgusting," says Didier Gailhaguet, the president of France's Ice Sports Federation (FFSG) as he defiantly battles calls from the government to resign amid a sex abuse scandal implicating one of the federation's coaches. A former world championship bronze medallist in figure skating, Sarah Abitbol published an autobiography last week in which she accused her former coach, Gilles Beyer, of raping her several times from 1990 to 1992 when she was between the ages of 15 and 17. France's sports minister Roxana Maracineanu has called on Gailhaguet to "take his responsibility" and resign, a request which he has refused. (COMPLETES VID 1OQ1GO, VID 1OQ19Q and VID 1OQ10A) IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES