Former Olympic judo champion Thierry Rey from Fumes, Belgium, celebrates his 63rd birthday today. In his autobiography published in 2018, the ex-companion of Claude Chirac, father of their son Martin Rey-Chirac, had delivered on his relationship with his ex-mother-in-law, Bernadette Chirac. Touching.
The countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has begun. Thierry Rey, 63 years old, who officiates as special adviser to Tony Estanguet, the president of Paris 2024 went on May 31 to Belgium, the country where he was born, to Brussels more precisely, to continue the tour of the Olympic and Paralympic flags started in around thirty cities in France and which will continue until 2024. The ex-judoka who made the heart beat French people with his extraordinary sporting career: world champion in the super-lightweight category in 1979, Olympic champion at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, several times medalist at the European championships, including a title in 1983 in the light-weight category, shared his life with Claude Chirac, 59, the youngest daughter by Bernadette and Jacques Chirac.
Of their love story was born a son, Martin Rey-Chirac, 26 years old today. The ex-companion of Claude Chirac who had not celebrated the election of his father-in-law, on May 7, 1995, with the family, confided in a book published in 2018, Sept dirty at Editions Stock, his relationship with his ex-mother-in-law, now 89 years old. ” She was always very kind to me. constantly caring about my parents, my life and my projects, he writes (…). On occasion, a message, a word, a lunch… (…) She stays the opposite of the widespread portrait of a cantankerous, dry and unaffected woman, and making her laugh was one of my favorite exercises. »
A privileged witness of the intimacy of the Chiracs
After his first meeting with the Chirac clan during a dinner at the restaurant Louis’ friendin the third arrondissement of Paris, one evening in 1994, and the beginning of her romance with Claude Chirac, the ex-judoka returned to the intimacy of Jacques and Bernadette Chirac. Martin’s father witnessed the functioning of this mythical couple, separated by the death of Jacques Chirac, on September 26, 2019, in Paris. Also in his autobiography, Sept dirty(Stock) Thierry Rey remembered their way of constantly teasing each other. « Jacques, stop boring us with your stories, “said Bernadette regularly. ” You are nothing without me,” retorted Jacquesbefore being told : “You didn’t say that when I was doing your homework at Sciences Po.” At last.
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