She takes a deep breath, gets up, and asks the audience for another round of applause. Clinging to the barrier, the children stretch out their hands, some cling to his neck. Six months before the Olympic Games in Paris, Clarisse Agbégnénou took a nice dose of love. Trust too. Manhandled at the European Championships in Montpellier at the beginning of November where she was beaten twice, in the quarter-finals then in the repechage, the double Olympic gold medalist rose from the ashes, “like a phoenix”, she laughs.
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She is not yet the lively, determined and relentless judokate of the Tokyo Games, but she is back on the right path. “This gold medal sets things clear, in everyone’s heads, especially everyone,” confides Clarisse. I’m proud to have gotten to this point, the day wasn’t easy, but days like this are needed so that I can remember them in complicated times. »
