A French player participated in the Games 16 weeks pregnant

Updated:11/08/2021 18:51h

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Valériane Ayayi Vukosavljevi, a 27-year-old player for the French basketball team, has surprised the world of sport by recognizing that she played both the Eurobasket last June and the Tokyo Olympic Games pregnant. In this last appointment he was already 18 weeks and the gala decided to hide it from her teammates to avoid the media noise and that they could focus on the competition, as the French half francetvinfo, who has given the news, tells. : «I was afraid that my colleagues, or even rivals, would act differently with me in the field, on the pretext that I was pregnant. I would not have found it very fair. As for the media, he just didn’t want to have to answer questions other than basketball. I didn’t want it to be an event within an event.

Vukosavljevi (uses the surname of her spouse, of Serbian origin) narrates that only the Valérie Garnier, team coach, and the doctor knew her condition as, according to her, as a precaution. “I wanted someone on the medical staff to know, you never know what might happen. But I wanted to play without having to deal with the reactions of other players, the media and others. I had the agreement of the Federation doctor, the medical agreement of my gynecologist, and that was the main thing. The coach told me that if everything was medically fine, she could count on me ».

As the player recounts, having a child was an idea that she had with her husband (also a professional player) for a long time and the good news came in one of the most intense sports summers in memory. To ensure that he was not running any medical risk, Vukosavljevi consulted his gynecologist before concentrating on France and this assured him that he could compete without any problem. The truth is that France won silver at the Eurobasket and bronze at the Games, the culmination of the great generation of women’s basketball in France. Vukosavljevi didn’t want to miss out on one of the great taboos in sport and the triple reward is proof of that.

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