Mathieu Warnier, Media365, published on Thursday April 11, 2024 at 5:40 p.m.
While she was planning to have a child after the Tokyo Games in 2021, Charlotte Lembach announced her choice to end her career before Paris 2024 due to upcoming motherhood.
The French fencing team loses one of its finest blades. Olympic vice-champion in team saber alongside Sara Balzer, Cécilia Berder and Manon Brunet, Charlotte Lembach has given up her ambition to compete in the Olympic Games again for Paris 2024. In an interview with the magazine Marie Claire, the native of Strasbourg announced her decision to end her career at the age of 36 for a very good reason. Indeed, the tricolor sabreuse is expecting her first child after having experienced many difficulties getting pregnant. “In May 2023, I discovered that I had endometriosis and that was why we couldn’t get it naturally,” she confided in this interview. We had considered, with the specialists, a medically assisted procreation protocol for after the Games. And then finally, naturally, this little being arrived. »
Lembach: “I knew I wouldn’t go to the Games”
While the project of starting a family was initially planned well in advance of Paris 2024 in order to allow her to compete in the Olympic Games at home, in the heart of the Grand Palais, Charlotte Lembach admits to having initially feared that this scenario would come into play. place. “I always said that after the Tokyo Games, my goal was to be pregnant,” she confided. Of course, I put pressure on myself at one point. » But what she readily presents as a “miracle” came to disrupt her plans and put an end to an Olympic dream in which she believed until the end. “So I knew that I would not go to the Games, but I remained with the objective of going to the end of the road, giving everything,” affirmed the sabreuse. After an Olympic medal, four world medals including one team gold in 2018 and six European medals including two individual medals, Charlotte Lembach will begin a new chapter in her life and it is as a supporter that she will accompany her former teammates. next summer.
2024-04-11 16:10:42
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