Blind, the French sprinter wants to win, over 100 m or 400 m, the only title that is still missing from his fantastic record, and thus overcome his “curse”.
«I am aiming for Olympus.» «Europe, the world, the games, I want all the titles.Timothée Adolphe sang his dream of Paralympic gold. Or more exactly rapped in a single released in 2019 entitled “Olympe“. At 31, the 2019 400m world champion, who will also run for the top step of the 100m podium in Tokyo, knows time is running out. Even more so for someone whose patience is not the first quality.
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And who had to recover from a cruel disillusionment in Rio, five years ago, for his first Paralympic Games: “2016 was a huge slap in the face as I was going for two gold medals and came back with nothing. It was very complicated to digest… ” Even today he feels “Rabies” and a fierce desire to take revenge. “In Rio, my shoulder injury in the 100m semifinals cost me my place in the final for 1 thousandth of a second and then I had to go out of my way to convince the medical staff to let participate
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