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Haut-Marnais Axel Clerget operated for his pubalgia

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Regularly annoyed by a pubalgia, the Haut-Marnais Axel Clerget decided to have an operation. (Photo: N. Chapon)

He postponed the deadline for a long time, but the Marnavalais Axel Clerget,
Olympic mixed team champion this summer, in Tokyo, finally decided to undergo surgery for his pubalgie. Now it’s time for rehabilitation, before returning to the tatami mats and preparing for Paris 2024.

On July 31, 2021, during the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Marnavalais Axel Clerget beat on his land Mukai Shoichiro, bringing a precious point to the France team, during the mixed team event. A few hours later, the Blues became Olympic champions for the first time.

The Marnavalais Axel Clerget lets burst his joy after his victory against the Japanese Mukai Shoichiro.

Images of the joy of Haut-Marnais and his comrades went around the world. But for Axel Clerget, this apotheosis was all the more beautiful because to get there, he suffered, a lot even. The fault of a tenacious pubalgia and strong pains.

“The trainings were very heavy”, explains the Olympic champion. “Before each session, I had to do thirty minutes of warm-up and after, I had to do another hour of treatment …” Si Axel Clerget “Said nothing”, it is to try to think only of judo, not to feel sorry for one’s own fate and to be “focused” on the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Concern, “Is that the pains were high, that I slept very little and that, a month and a half before the Olympics, things went wrong. The adductors were removed. “

Here again, Axel Clerget, as with each of his injuries, grits his teeth. This time even more than the other times, because there are the Games, the dream of a career. “There was little judo and attacks, because of the pain”, declares the Haut-Marnais which, “In a year and a half before the Games, he could only do three and a half, four months of judo. This is not enough to be able to perform at a very high level. ”

“It was not getting any better”

Not when your name is Axel Clerget! Admittedly, he was eliminated in the round of 16 in individual, but he made his contribution by team, with the Grail in the key. However, the pains are still there and the risk that “It farts again” is also present. The cut after the Games did not change anything, as Axel Clerget recognizes.

“I resumed for a month and it was not getting better. “ So he will take “The most important decision for 2024”, that of having an operation. “I tried everything to avoid this operation which should have taken place before the Tokyo Olympics, but I would not have had time to come back. ”

With a view to Paris 2024, Axel Clerget does not “Couldn’t go three years like that, with the sword of Damocles hanging over your head.” “ On Tuesday, he therefore had the operation, in Bordeaux, “By the best French surgeon and the 2nd best in the world. It is he who operates all the greatest footballers, including the Parisian Verratti, because it is a pathology of footballers. But there are more and more judokas. “

Including Axel, who offers an explanation. “This injury is associated with my fairly mobile judo, with a lot of movement, not to mention working on the ground. “

“Redo judo for fun”

After forty-five minutes on the “billiards” “The adductors cut and the abdominals sutured on both sides”, Axel Clerget “Hurts, especially at night, but that’s normal”, because this operation is not trivial and does not resemble that of appendicitis of Haut-Marnais, in 2017. To date, Haut-Marnais “Walks like an 80-year-old grandfather, bent in half and legs wide apart. I got roomed by my son! “

After fifteen days of rest, the Marnavalais will begin his rehabilitation. “It will be quite variable”, says Axel Clerget. “It’s a minimum of two months, but it depends on the evolution. ”

One thing is certain, the Olympic champion, “Who has the experience to handle this”, aspire “To do judo again for fun, but also to be able to do sprints and jogging. “ Without forgetting to “To be able to play soccer with my son. “ A life of a dad and a top athlete. Simply.

Yves Tainturier


Posted on 10-29-2021 at 6:00 AM


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