On the set of C to you, the continuation, Tuesday September 28, 2021 on France 5, Clarisse Agbégnénou spoke of the tragedy that she avoided at birth. The judo champion suffered complications and had to be placed in a coma.
Judokate Clarisse Agbégnénou is a fighter. After fifteen days of sporting exploits, the young woman, aged only 28, shone at the Olympic Games, winning not one, but two gold medals. “It feels so good, it’s been so long these five years”, she commented on the set of the 1 pm newscast of France 2, on August 8. “I feel relieved, light and I let myself be carried by the clouds, the wind, I glide”, she admitted. It must be said that the judokate has been waiting to defend her place at the Olympics for more than five years. The two-time Olympic judo champion took her revenge in Tokyo and today she is considered one of the stars of the sport. September 14, 2021, the young woman received a national distinction for his results at the Toyko Olympics from Emmanuel Macron.
This strength to conquer, the young Rennaise takes it from her childhood, well before fighting on the tatami mats. Indeed, in an interview for the JT of France 2 in August 2021, the young woman confided that she was “born dead”. “I was not breathing. A few weeks later, I had a kidney problem, and they operated on. I fell into a coma and they wanted to unplug me”, explained the young woman who is a miracle. On the set of C to you, the continuation on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, the young woman agreed to come back to this traumatic episode, which she is about to tell in her very first book.
Clarisse Agbégnénou looks back on the “first fight” of her life
In Fight to be yourself, the first autobiographical book of the champion of France, Clarisse Agbégnénou looks back on the various fights she led during her life. And the first fight begins from birth. Indeed, the medal-winning judoka almost died at birth. “I was very premature with my twin brother and I fell into a coma. They resuscitated me, they told me that I had a little health problem, I had a kidney that was badly formed. and they operated on me two weeks later so that I wasn’t too weak “, did she let the chroniclers know C to you, the continuation. And that’s not all.
The judoka explained that the doctors could not resuscitate her. “We told my parents: ‘You have to unplug it, it’s complicated’. My parents didn’t want to and they came with specialists to unplug me … And I woke up “, she concluded, a smile on her lips. “It was the first fight”, said Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. In great shape, Teddy Riner’s accomplice is now aiming the Paris Olympic Games in 2024.
