They decided to “break a taboo. “Céline Dumerc, Jérémy Stravius, Amandine Buchard, Astrid Guyart, Kevin Aymoz and Jérémy Clamy-Edroux, all top athletes, revealed their homosexuality in front of the Canal + cameras as part of the documentary” Should we speak “broadcast on Saturday evening.
Former emblematic captain of the French basketball team, Céline Dumerc is still active. The 38-year-old leader has just been crowned French champion in the Women’s Basketball League with her club, Basket Landes. Holder of the record for selections for the French team (262 selections), the Olympic vice-champion confided in the difficulties she may have encountered during her sporting life, explaining that some teammates were afraid to “take a shower” with it. “I don’t scan all the girls. I’m in a locker room, I just want to win. “
Olympic champion in 2012, Jérémy Stravius also revealed his sexual orientation. After the announcement of his retirement in 2020, the Picard of 32 has finally plunged again, for the fun of it. He gleaned a bronze medal in the 50-meter backstroke on Friday at the French championships, a distance not run at the Olympic Games. During his career, the 100-meter backstroke world champion took a long time to confide in his teammates, for fear that their relations would deteriorate. Before finally being reassured by the attitude of his comrades of the victorious Olympic relay in London.
Buchard had already revealed his homosexuality
European Champion 2021 (-52kg), judokate Amandine Buchard made her media coming out in 2018 in our columns. The former junior world champion, married to a German fighter in her category, spoke at the time of her fatigue at the idea of ”hiding” her sexual orientation. “We are not ourselves, we live in lies and I hate that”, she lamented. In the documentary, the 25-year-old champion admits to having long hidden her homosexuality from those around her by inventing a heterosexual relationship.
Along with Céline Dumerc, he is the only representative of a team sport. Rouen Normandie Rugby (Pro D2) right pillar Jérémy Clamy-Edroux also spoke to Canal + journalists. “There are plenty of people who say to themselves but ‘are you gay? Do you play rugby, pillar, the guy I saw pushing in the scrum? Yeah! ‘ We have to stop these clichés in the sense that, because I’m gay, I have to behave like this. I’m gay, okay, but who cares, that’s what happens in my privacy, ”judges the 30-year-old player, who worked for Racing 92. This revelation comes more than ten years after coming out. -out of Welsh Gareth Thomas, who had waited the end of his career to release his word.
A little over a year after Guillaume Cizeron, Kevin Aymoz, quadruple French figure skating champion, also spoke for the first time in public about his homosexuality. Just like Astrid Guyart, world vice-champion in team foil, who regrets “homophobic jokes” and “rumors.”
No footballer appears in this documentary. A month ago, Ouissem Belgacem, a former resident of the Toulouse training center, became the first high-level French footballer to speak openly about his homosexuality in a book “Adieu ma shaonte”. In an interview with So Foot, he said he knew several homosexual players, while denouncing “the homophobia of the milieu.” Last year, in the Premier League, a player still active revealed his homosexuality in an anonymous open letter.
