The sporting fate of a champion, or a champion, can hang by a thread. But sometimes the stakes are much greater. It is then a question of life and death. Clarisse Agbegnenou would not only have been able to never make a career in judo, but she told Tuesday evening in the program C à Vous on France Televisions that she almost died shortly after her birth.
“I was very premature with my twin brother. I fell into a coma, declared the double Olympic champion in judo, titled in individual (-63 kg) and in the mixed team event this summer in Tokyo. They resuscitated me and said I had a little health problem, a kidney that was malformed. They operated on me two weeks later so that I wasn’t too weak … but I wasn’t coming back.”
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His vital prognosis was engaged. Worse, the doctors no longer even had the hope of saving her, according to Agbegnenou (28): “They said to my parents: ‘You have to unplug it, it’s complicated.’ My parents said, ‘No, no, no. She’s a fighter, she’s going to fight. ‘ They waited a few weeks, a few days, and they came back with specialists and said: ‘Well, she’s not coming back, we’re going to unplug her …’, and at that moment, I woke up.”
The five-time world champion (individually) ended this story with a formula, which was suggested to her on the plateau: “It was the first fight“In the rest of the interview, Clarisse Agbegnenou explained in particular that she was overflowing with energy in her youth. Hence the birth of her vocation:”My director said: ‘We can’t take it anymore, she has to do a combat sport’“. His choice fell on judo without much conviction …”and i fell in love“she concludes.
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