Teddy Riner admits to being “afraid” of injuring himself when he “steps on a carpet”

FEARS – For Teddy Riner, “if there is one event that we cannot miss, it is these Olympic Games at home” in Paris in 2024, so today he is “beware”

His goal is to participate in the Paris Olympics in 2024, Teddy Riner therefore wants to take care of his body. Several times injured in recent years, the champion of judo thus admitted on Monday fearing the injury.

“The truth is that when I get on a mat, I’m scared,” he said a few days before the Grand Slam in Paris. “(During my training camp) in Kazakhstan, I was very afraid of injuring myself, because you had to see the templates in front,” he added during a press briefing at the Judo Institute in Paris.

“Today, time counts”

Seriously injured in a knee a few months before the 2020 Olympics, the ten-time world champion had contracted a sprained right ankle at the end of August when a training partner fell on him during an internship in Morocco. This injury forced him to declare package for the Worlds in October. “It’s never easy to come back from an injury, especially this one where I avoided the operation,” continued Riner, who will participate in the ninth Paris Tournament of his career on Sunday.

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