VIDEO – “I am doped to my daughter”: Clarisse Agbégnénou recounts her life as a mother champion in “Sept à Huit”

On May 10, just eleven months after giving birth to her first child, Clarisse Agbégnénou won, at the age of 30, a sixth world crown at the Doha World Judo Championships. Proof that being a mother and a high-level athlete is not necessarily mission impossible. The show “Sept à Huit” devoted its “Portrait of the week” to him this Sunday.

Facing Audrey Crespo-Mara, the French judoka returns in the video to be found at the top of this article on the months preceding the competition. Her daughter, whom she continues to breastfeed, accompanied her throughout her preparation, in the locker room, during training and until the final. “I didn’t want to leave my daughter, not to see her grow up and also to continue breastfeeding”she explains.