Teddy Riner may be a colossus of more than two meters, he has nonetheless sometimes been deprived in the face of his two infants.
In more than 15 years of career on the tatami, Teddy Riner has rarely had the opportunity to be won over by tears. Blame it on his incredible domination of the heavyweight category since his first world champion title in 2007. Even his failure last summer at the Tokyo Olympics, where, in search of a third Olympic title, he had to contenting himself with bronze did not bring the slightest tear to his eyes. Whether after his defeat in the quarter-finals against the Russian Tamerlan Bashaev or his victory in the small final against the Japanese Hisayoshi Harasawa.
Father of an eight-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, Teddy Riner, on the other hand, was overwhelmed with emotion in front of his two children. “I cried at none of the births. Not a tear. On the other hand, after the fact, when I start to discover them, I go to their room, I cry over their cradle.he told Thomas Ngijol in his Pépères podcast. “I cried at none of the births. Not a tear. On the other hand, after the fact, when I start to discover them, I go to their room, I cry over their cradle.he continued, adding: “My mother, who was a childcare assistant, told me that it was important to talk to her child, even if it is an infant. At the beginning, there were times when I didn’t do it and my little one or my little one, as soon as I took him in my arms on my return, he cried or he sulked at me. I worked on that and I told them well in advance that I was leaving, and when I came back, impeccable. Just tell them, sometimes I go back to it two or three times, tears come to me because of the separation. »
He banned his son from judo
Her tears do not prevent her from wanting a third child. “The first is the fruit of life. The second was on purpose. I even implored. I wanted a second very quickly and I’m trying to get a third, it’s too good, it’s too fresh. »he assured, before giving some anecdotes about his relationship with his two children. “My daughter, I can’t wait to take her shopping, to go shopping. I have this vision”he confided, adding about the eldest: “He is six years old, I may be a bit fast, but I taught him to drive, he drives. He’s on the left, I’m on the right on the steering wheel. He shifts gears and I put him a system where he can touch the pedals, I put him a cushion. He drives very well. I was proud, because I learned to drive when I was twelve. »
Teddy Riner, on the other hand, forbade him to do judo. Consequence of a legacy too heavy to bear. “My son, he wanted to do judo, I told him no. Because when you have a father like me, or like Zinedine Zidane – a very bad example – the coach is not going to talk to him like everyone else, the remarks are going to flow, positive or negative. I don’t want that, I want my son to grow up normally, away from all that, he explained. I don’t want it to add complexes to him or anything else. It’s for his own good above all, too bad if he’s angry with me. I want to give him the opportunity to grow normally.”
