Alain Vastine, Still standing. This is the title of the documentary broadcast this evening at 11 p.m. on France 3 Normandie, dedicated to the 65-year-old former French boxing vice-champion who is still mourning his son Alexis.
Died on March 9, 2015, one of the greatest talents in French boxing had succumbed, like 9 other people including sailor Florence Arthaud and Olympic swimming champion Camille Muffat, to a helicopter accident on the set of “Dropped » in Villa Castelli, Argentina.
Boxing, “a second family”
A disappearance all the more painful for his father as the 28-year-old champion, bronze medalist in boxing at the Beijing Olympic Games, had decided to participate in the TF 1 adventure game a few weeks after the death of his little sister Célie , in a road accident, January 3, 2015.
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This documentary will therefore focus on the life of this father from whom two of his five children were tragically taken away. They who had perpetuated the love of boxing in the family with 24 French championship titles. Alain Vastine continues to train today, including in Argentina at the scene of his son's death. “It makes me feel good because I’ve always done this. For me it’s like a second family in fact,” he confides in the documentary. To continue and always pay tribute to Alexis.